Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers’ ‘Conscious Party’ Has Been Reissued On Vinyl
It’s the first vinyl pressing of the Grammy-award winning record since its 1988 release.
Conscious Party, Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers’ Grammy-award winning album, is being reissued on vinyl and digital. This is the first vinyl pressing of the album since its initial release nearly forty years ago in 1988. The reissued record is available in multiple configurations, including limited-edition 1LP 180g Emerald Green Color Vinyl, 1LP 180g Standard Black Vinyl, 1CD, and a digital Deluxe Edition.
Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers was founded in 1979 by four of Bob Marley’s eleven children: Sharon, Cedella, Ziggy, and Stephen. They cut their third album at Sigma Sound in New York City with producers Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club.)
Conscious Party was released on April 5th, 1988, and charted at number 23 on the Billboard 200. It spawned multiple successful singles, including number one Billboard R&B chart hit “Tumblin’ Down” as well as “Tomorrow People,” which now has over 30 million streams on Spotify. The record went on to win the Grammy for Best Reggae Album.
“Conscious Party came at a pivotal time for us. I think we grew a lot in-between the last album and Conscious Party. We were exploring a lot, and just growing up and becoming young people. So I feel it represents that young energy, and was a very monumental album in our life at the time,” said Ziggy Marley in a press release.
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He added: “It was a new experience, too. With Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth from the Talking Heads producing it, and we were living in New York for a little bit, it was a whole different and very enlightened experience for us.”
Both new vinyl versions of Conscious Party feature “We A Guh Some Sum Weh,” which was previously only available on CD. The new digital Deluxe Edition of the album includes remixes of “Tomorrow People” and “Tumblin’ Down” as well as a live rendition of “Lee And Molly” captured at the Spectrum in Philadelphia during the band’s 1988 Conscious Party Tour.
Ziggy Marley recently appeared on The Today Show to discuss his new children’s book, True To Myself, inspired by his music.
Order Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers’ Conscious Party on vinyl here.
