Musical Youth - Mash Down Birmingham : The Early Recordings Of Musical Youth Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mouse on Mars the songs draw on a

the songs draw on a longing for pastoral space and the deep emotional language of country and folk traditions

Herman Kelly and his percussive disco-funk group from Miami

Since Buck's self-titled full-length album

rhythmic undercurrents

they spent a month writing together again

Musical Youth - Mash Down Birmingham : The Early Recordings Of Musical Youth Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mouse on Mars the songs draw on aMash Down Birmingham: The Early Recordings of Musical Youth gathers rare and previously unheard recordings from the first line up of Musical Youth, shining a fresh light on the groups roots as a serious, disciplined reggae outfit. Drawn from the bands inaugural John Peel session in 1981 alongside newly uncovered quarter inch tapes preserved for decades by mentor and producer Toney Owens, the collection documents a formative period of experimentation,