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N his final interview with biographer David Katz, Lee Perry explained his somewhat unsteady relationship with Planet Earth. “I’m living here because I don’t have anywhere else to live at the moment,” he said, “but I’m not coming from here.” Concluding with the producer’s death aged 85 in August, this new edition of enhances an already impressive piece of research, capturing the cosmic quality of the reggae polymath’s work without flinching from the entirely worldly problems that

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