Phillip Fraser: Track by Track Reggae Stuffs
Sometimes an album doesn’t speak to some greater concept. Sometimes an album doesn’t really mean anything at all – apart from it just being good music. Phillip Fraser (aka Frazer) doesn’t have a huge following despite doing work with Tristan Palmer for a while. But the recently issued compilation, (poorly) titled In a Dance Hall Style, deserves a bit of attention if not scholarly dissection.
Breaking Up: This lead off track – from Alton Ellis’ catalog - might fit into any effort from JA’s recorded history. There’s not an overwhelming sense of its dubbed trickery. That being said, Fraser’s voice is clearly from an era a bit after the music was actually recorded. A little horn break functions as the bridge – unfortunately, since there were so many different bands involved here, there’s kinda no way to figure who contributed the work.
