Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

★★★

My Name Is Pipecock Jackxon JAMRA. DL/LP

Pipecock Jackxon impishly revisited.

The first posthumous Perry album loosely reworks the better songs of 1980’s The

Return Of Pipecock Jackxon, an unfinished LP that was the last to emerge from the Black Ark. The new versions were produced by the Italian singer and painter Rankin’ Alpha, who issued earlier electronic Perry collaboration Science, Magic,

Logic, and here the backing is largely in organic roots mode, a likeably unfastened platform for Perry’s pointed, tripletracked pronouncements. Babylon Cookie Jar Crumble sees Perry blasting those who serve two gods, Give Thanks To Jah sees Max Romeo and the Reggae Jam festival castigated, and on Who Killed The Chicken, Perry appealed to Walt Disney for help in his war of good against evil. Dubious material crops up in places, most notably on No Cigarette Reggae, though playfulness is mainly the order of the day.