TAPPER ZUKIE - Black Man (Reissue) - LP - Vinyl [FEB 28]

LP - Black Vinyl (2025 Repress).  

Tapper Zukie’s ‘Black Man’ album originally came out in 1978 as a Jamaican only
release on Tapper’s’ Stars imprint. Long deleted it has become a classic in Mr Zukie’s
vast cannon of musical biscuits and is well overdue this worldwide release for the first
time.

Tapper Zukie (b1956. David Sinclair, Kingston, Jamaica) was raised in the rough and
tough West Kingston area of Jamaica, between the districts of Trench Town and
Greenwich Farm. Living pretty much on the streets from an early age, the youths
including the young Tapper had no choice but to fall into the hands of the Political
Parties that controlled various ghetto areas of the town. Music seemed like the only
way out of a life of crime and gang culture. A path that Tapper Zukie found by the mid
1970’s was establishing himself as a named star on the DJ Roots circuit. Back home in
Jamaica he was also getting a name for his production work for other local singers
such as Prince Allah and the group Knowledge. To release these productions and his
own material in Jamaica, Tapper started up his own label called Stars. It’s this label
that saw the initial release of this album “Black Man”. A great collection of Tapper
tunes such as his biblical cut “My God Is Real”, “Revolution” and the title track of this
collection “Black Man” and some work overs of some of his fellow Jamaican Artists
like “Poor Man Problem” a work over of Johnny Clarke’s “ Blood Dunza” and also Mr
Clarke’s "Leggo Violence”. “Yaga Yaga” reworking Horace Andy’s and Tapper’s big hit “Natty Dread ah She Want”. “Gather Them” a reworking of Knowledge’s tune of the same name with the help from bands like Jah Wisdom and Delroy Fielding.

A great collection of tunes and reworkings that we hope will find a wider audience with this release.

Tracklist: 

A1.        My God Is Real
A2.        Revolution
A3.        Poor Man Problem
A4.        Money Man Scank
A5.        Yaga Yaga

B1.        The Boom
B2.        Leggo Violence
B3.        Gather Them
B4.        Black Man