Iron Storm (album)

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Iron Storm
BlackUhuru IronStorm.jpg
Studio album by
Black Uhuru
Released1991
StudioLeggo Sound Studio (Kingston, Jamaica)
Genre Reggae
Length44:46
Label Mesa Recordings
Producer
Black Uhuru chronology
Now
(1990)		Iron Storm
(1991)		 Mystical Truth
(1992)
Singles from Iron Storm
  1. "Tip Of The Iceberg"
    Released: 1992
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Iron Storm is a studio album by Jamaican reggae band Black Uhuru. It was released in 1991 through Mesa Recordings. The album peaked at number 1 on the US Billboard World Albums chart and was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album at 34th Annual Grammy Awards. [2]

Reggae Music genre from Jamaica

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, especially the New Orleans R&B practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political comment. Reggae spread into a commercialized jazz field, being known first as "Rudie Blues", then "Ska", later "Blue Beat", and "Rock Steady". It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat, and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument.

Black Uhuru band

Black Uhuru is a Jamaican reggae group formed in 1972, initially as Uhuru. The group has undergone several line-up changes over the years, with Derrick "Duckie" Simpson as the mainstay. They had their most successful period in the 1980s, with their album Anthem winning the first ever Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1985.

<i>Billboard</i> (magazine) American music magazine

Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style, and is also known for its music charts, including the Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular songs and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Tip of the Iceberg" (Remix)4:30
2."Bloodshed"3:59
3."Colourblind Affair"4:49
4."Dance Hall Vibes"4:17
5."Statement"4:30
6."Tip of the Iceberg" (featuring Ice-T)5:15
7."Iron Storm"4:59
8."Breakout"3:39
9."Trouble"4:06
10."Colourblind Affair" (FM)4:42
Total length:44:46

Personnel

Ice-T American rapper, songwriter, actor, record executive, and record producer

Tracy Lauren Marrow, better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American musician, rapper, songwriter, actor, record producer, and author. He began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays; the second hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker after Slick Rick's La Di Da Di. The following year, he founded the record label Rhyme $yndicate Records and released another album, Power, which went on to go Platinum. He also released several other albums that went Gold.

David Madden is a Jamaican trumpeter known for his solo recordings and as a member of Zap Pow, as well as playing on records of Bob Marley and many other great reggae artists.

Dean Fraser saxophonist

Dean Ivanhoe Fraser is a Jamaican saxophonist who has contributed to hundreds of reggae recordings since the mid-1970s. He was awarded the Musgrave Medal by the Jamaican government in 1993 in recognition of his services to music.

Charts

Chart (1991)Peak
position
scope="row"US World Albums (Billboard) [3] 1

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References

  1. ↑ Henderson, Alex. "Iron Storm – Black Uhuru". Allmusic . Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Black Uhuru". Grammys . May 14, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Black Uhuru Chart History (World Albums)". Billboard.

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