eliciting the hidden stories people carry around with them

Side One swings with a vengeance with its tight arrangements built around acoustic bass

instrumentally implemented

Navy recruit Fred Potts cut his unconditionally serene ballad remotely stationed on a Spanish naval base

improvisation as composition (and vice versa)

THE CONGOS - Heart Of The Congos LP New Wave eliciting the hidden stories peopleHeart of the Congos is a roots reggae album by The Congos, produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry at his Black Ark studio with a studio band including Boris Gardiner on bass and Ernest Ranglin on guitar. The album was released in 1977. It is noted as being one of Perry's masterpiece productions of the Black Ark era.