Confrontation (album)

Confrontation is a posthumous album of Bob Marley & the Wailers, left in 1983, two years after the death of Bob Marley.

It is composed for half of songs recorded between the return of Wailers of the Zimbabwe and the beginning of the " Uprising Tour" (on May 30th with Zurich). These pieces were intended for an album which would have constituted the last part of the trilogy initiated by Survival and Uprising , but that Bob never had time to finish. They were thus supplemented with older titles:

- I Know had been recorded in September 1975, during the sessions of Rastaman Vibration . On its bed of death, Bob required of Aston Barrett to make individual. " Family Man" the remixa and left it little time after the death of the singer;

- Rastaman Live Up and Blackman Redemption had been recorded in January 1979, but Bob of it was not satisfied. It had thus re-recorded them in June by replacing with the choruses the I Threes by the Meditations. These are these versions that it left into individual the same year. Curiously, in fact however the first versions (with I Threes) are reproduced on Confrontation ;

- Mix Up Mix Up had been recorded in June 1979, but ever published;
- Give Thanks & Praises had been recorded in January 1980, during the sessions of Uprising . It had not been finally placed in the album.

The lack of musical unit and set of themes of the album is due to this mixture of times.

At its exit, the album was appreciated little by the fans and the critics, who found it weak. It however made good sales, in particular thanks to individual the Buffalo Soldier which was extracted from it. This one quickly became traditional of Bob Marley for a too young generation to have known the Seventies.

Titles

Face has

Chant Down Babylon (Marley)
Buffalo Soldier (Bob Marley/Christmas " King Sporty" Williams)
Jump Nyabinghi (Marley)
Mix Up, Mix Up (Marley)
Give Thanks & Praises (Marley)

Face B

Blackman redemption (Bob Marley/Lee Perry)
Trench Town (Marley)
Stiff Necked Fools (Marley)
I Know (Marley)
Rastaman Live Up (Bob Marley/Lee Perry)

The pieces Babylon Feel This One and She Used To Call Me Hobby-horse , recorded during the sessions of Confrontation , do not appear in the album.

Musicians

Voice, guitar - Bob Marley
Voice - I Threes ( Rita Marley , Judy Mowatt , Marcia Griffiths )
Low - Aston " Family Man" Barrett
Battery - Carlton " Carlie" Barrett , Carlton " Santa" Davis on Song Down Babylon
Guitar and voice Junior Marvin
Guitar - Al Anderson , Smith|Earl " Chinna" Smith] on I Know

Keyboard and voice - Tyrone Downie

Keyboard - Earl " Wya" Lindo , Bernard " Touter" Harvey

Saxophone tenor - Glen Da Costa

Trombone - Ronald " Nambo" Robinson

Trumpet - David Madden

Percussions - Alvine " Seeco" Patterson

Anecdote

The name of the song Burn Down Babylon was changed into that - less alarming - of Chant Down Babylon on the small pocket of the album.

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