Musical genres, generations combine for ‘Yardie’
Universal-Island Records has released the official soundtrack album for Idris Elba’s feature film, ‘Yardie’.
The album features the songs by artistes such as Lord Creator, Yellowman, The Isley Brothers, Culture, Grace Jones, The Roots Radics, The Heptones and Skip Marley.
The soundtrack was released on Friday and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A vinyl and a CD version are also in the works.
Yardie is directed by Elba and sees a host of Jamaicans starring in the flick, including Shantol Jackson, Sheldon Shepherd and Everaldo Creary.
The crime drama is based on the cult novel by Victor Headley and centres on a young Jamaican named ‘D’ who arrives in London in the early 1980s and unexpectedly discovers the man who assassinated his revered brother in Jamaica a decade earlier.
The movie premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is expected to be released in British theatres on August 31.
The official listing for the soundtrack is highlighted below. 1. Kingston Town — Lord Creator 2. Zungguzungguguzungguzeng — Yellowman 3. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner — Black Uhuru 4. My Jamaican Guy — Grace Jones 5. Work To Do — The Isley Brothers 6. Holy Mount Zion – Culture 7. Dedication to Dean Fraser & Nambo — The Roots Radics 8. Revolution — Dennis Brown 9. Prophecy — Fabian 10. Satta Amassa Gana — The Abyssinians 11. Book of Rules — The Heptones 12. War Ina Babylon — Max