East of the River Nile

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Critical reception

Template:Music ratings Musician and journalist Randall Grass wrote in The New Rolling Stone Record Guide that "East of the River Nile takes dub melodicism to new heights."<ref name=Grass/> Trouser Press called the album "quintessential Pablo, and perhaps his most consistent LP."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Spin Alternative Record Guide highlighted "a floating, childlike wonderment pervading the first half especially."<ref name="SP"/>

Track listing

All tracks composed by Horace Swaby
All tracks mixed by King Tubby, except "Upful Living" mixed by Lee Perry

Side one
  1. "Chant to King Selassie I" (with Ja-Malla Band)
  2. "Natural Way" (with Ja-Malla Band)
  3. "Nature Dub"
  4. "Upfull Living" (with The Upsetters)
  5. "Unfinished Melody" (with The Upsetters)
  6. "Jah Light"
Side two
  1. "Memories of the Ghetto" (with The Upsetters)
  2. "Africa (1983)"
  3. "East of the River Nile"
  4. "Sounds from Levi"
  5. "Chapter 2"
  6. "Addis Ababa"
2002 CD reissue extra tracks
  1. "East Africa"
  2. "East of the River Nile" (Original)
  3. "Memories of the Ghetto Dub"
  4. "Jah Light Version"
  5. "Islington Rock"
  6. "Meditation Dub"

Personnel

Technical

References

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