Lee Scratch Perry

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The point of departure for the book Black Ark with Lee Scratch Perry (19362021), a Jamaican musical and visual artist who was based in Switzerland, is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings (Spring 2021) from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where Lee produced his music from 1973 on. He was a seminal pioneer of dub, an electronic subgenre of reggae that uses sampling, looping, remixing, reverb and echoes to create new songs as well as rework and appropriate pre-recorded songs and tracks.

Black Ark Studios was one of the cradles of dub. Its also where Lee Scratch Perrys musical approach found an enduring visual counterpart in the form o