Veteran super-producer Clive Hunt is de facto happy with the discharge of his album, ‘Fields Of Gold: A Reggae Tribute To Sting’, which is slated to drop on Friday through Ineffable Data.
The album contains songs voiced by Metal Pulse, Third World, Maxi Priest, The Skatalites, The Elovaters, JBoog, Large Youth, Kumar, Groundation and others.
“From the primary time we found the Police, I cherished them an entire lot, and Sting being an English youth, who grew up in an period the place ska and reggae was a giant a part of the scene within the 60s and 70s. Sting is a good songwriter and an important musician. I’ve at all times preferred his large catalogue of music and I wished to do his songs over in a reggae model,” Hunt stated.
Hunt and Ineffable Data launched a sequence of singles to drum up publicity for the album’s launch on March 14. Final week, the legendary British reggae act Metal Pulse delivered the fifth and ultimate single, a reggae cowl of The Police’s hit track So Lonely to rave evaluations from music critics.
“Metal Pulse is among the premier reggae abilities of our era and so they did a unbelievable job with So Lonely,” Hunt stated.
The unique So Lonely was re-released within the UK in February 1980, and reached quantity 6 on the charts. The track used a reggae model, and featured Sting on lead vocals. Sting stated he based mostly the track on Bob Marley’s No Girl, No Cry.
Hunt was extremely motivated to throw himself into this mission with gusto due to his admiration for Sting. Hunt finally teamed up with US-based indie label, Ineffable Data, whose high executives cherished the thought and bankrolled the mission.
“I’m actually happy with how the entire mission has unfolded,” Hunt stated.
