A masterpiece of roots reggae psychedelia is the Lee Scratch Perry Black Ark studio production, Heart of the Congos, released in 1977. The first track is Fisherman, the portrait of a poor man who must catch fish to feed his growing family:
Living in a bamboo hut
In a little hole sea-port town
Three kids on the floor
And another one to come make four
The music rolls along gently on the waves at daybreak, the sun just coming up over the horizon. It is a mass of bass, flange effects, percussion, bubbling echoes, seashore clankings.
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