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- ✓ Name: Noel Ellis & Lone Ark
- ✓ Cd Name: Iroko Showcase Vol.1: Zion
- ✓ For Promotional Use Only !!!
- ✓ Genre: Reggae/Dub
- ✓ Released: 20 Nov. 2015
- ✓ Born: Kingston, Jamaica.
- ✓ Released: Alton Ellis Son
- Label: Irokopo Music
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- ✓ Track: 12
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- ✓ Irokopo Showcase Vol.1: Zion (+/+)
- ✓ Upload: RAS Reggae Music Box
- ✓ Size: 204 mb
- ✓ Biltrate: 320 kbps
- ✓ Playtime: 40:39 min.
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Born in 1958 in Kingston, Jamaica, Noel Ellis spent his early childhood
in that city's infamous Trenchtown district. The son of reggae-soul
singer Alton Ellis, the younger Ellis turned out to have a pretty good
voice of his own, and even recorded an unreleased song, "It Has Been a
Long Time," backed by The Gladiators, at Channel One while he was still a
teenager.
Alton left Jamaica and relocated to Toronto, and Noel eventually joined his father there, but soon after Noel's arrival, Alton moved on to England, where he had a significant fan base, and Noel
stayed on in Toronto with his aunt and uncle, attending Castle Frank
High School.
Luckily, Toronto had a lively West Indian population and
several record shops that catered to the emigre market, so Ellis was
able to keep up on the latest 45s from Jamaica. Toronto developed its
own nascent reggae scene by the mid-'70s, much of it based around Jerry
Brown's Summer Records. Recognizing Ellis' talent, Brown released Noel's
"Reach My Destiny" as one side of a split disco 45 in 1978.
The song
didn't generate much interest, but 1979's "Rocking Universally,"
recorded at Summer with help from Jackie Mittoo, did, even charting in Europe as a 12" single. Four years later, in 1983, Summer released a
full-length album by Ellis, simply called Noel Ellis, which featured
"Rocking Universally" and five other solid roots reggae tracks in
extended versions.
The album didn't achieve any commercial success at
the time, but has since become somewhat of a lost cult classic. Ellis left Summer and began working a series of odd jobs to support himself,
occasionally tracking sides for small independent labels, eventually
relocating, like his father, to London. Seattle's Light in the Attic
Records rescued the excellent Noel Ellis LP from obscurity in 2006 when
the label reissued it on CD. ~ Steve Leggett
