It keeps me calm and brings me fleeting moments of happiness. You are a survivor, who can be very protective of those who bring light into your darkened life. You have learned to live with the terror that haunts you. You became a monster, and it haunts your waking dreams. You did terrible things to avenge the murder of someone you loved. The fiend is still inside you, but now you try to keep it locked away. You burned the book, but its words and images are burned into your psyche.Ī fiend possessed you as a child. You opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for a sane mind. You escaped, but the hag still has a magical hold over you and fills your mind with evil thoughts. You are now haunted by the innocents you slaughtered.Ī hag kidnapped and raised you. You were cursed with lycanthropy and later cured. You dabbled once and felt something horrible clutch at your soul, whereupon you fled in terror.Īn oni took your sibling one cold, dark night, and you were unable to stop it. Your family has a history of practicing the dark arts. You don’t know what it wants, and it won’t leave you alone. Sometimes it beckons you in the dead of night.Īn apparition that has haunted your family for generations now haunts you. You can feel it watching you, coldly and distantly. d10Ī monster that slaughtered dozens of innocent people spared your life, and you don’t know why. Choose a harrowing event that haunts you, or roll one on the Harrowing Events table. Now you feel a darkness threatening to consume you, and you fear there may be no hope of escape. Prior to becoming an adventurer, your path in life was defined by one dark moment, one fateful decision, or one tragedy. Straddling the worlds of reggae, nu-soul and electronica, it comes with a J-Star Dub and has an eerie vibe that make it stand out from the crowd.Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures Soon to drop from as a 7” single, The Devil Inside combines a sprightly reggae rhythm with the very Erykah Badu-esque vocals of Rioghnach Connolly, punctuated by classic reggae horns and framed by a very moody, cinematic sample. It evokes the process of trying to capture something substantial, rather than ephemeral, through the recording process: exactly what YesKing have done here. The album title references an ad for Scotch video-tape that ran in the ‘80s, and hints at Adams’ own preference for recording live to a 1960s quarter-inch ferrograph tape machine. Friends Like Mine and Secret King both combine rap with reggae and dancehall vibes, and Raise Up, with its conscious lyrics and deep roots feel, sounds like it could’ve belonged to the likes of Morgan Heritage. Run Boy Run has Mystro’s reality lyrics (about our surveillance culture) over an insistent riddim. Overproof is another catchy reggae track that has been picking up plays already. Horns also colour Hardground with its gentle rhythm, where the finished product somehow evokes the Bristol sound of Massive Attack or Portishead. Chicken Chops with its jazzy horns, is somehow both nu-soul and roots reggae. Annie Bea (part of The Rotten Hill gang with Hollie Cook a moley crew assembled by Mick Jones of Clash fame) and Rioghnach Connolly also step into the limelight.Īnnie brings a lovers rock feel to Just Like Me, while One More Time, Kodjovi’s showpiece, can only be called Afrobeat, with its choppy rhythms and surging horns. Kodjovi Kush, from Togo via Ghana and Israel, is another. Rapper Mystro, now something of a veteran in today’s rap game, provides grit and humour, and another veteran, dancehall singer Kenny Knotts, is just one of a brace of singers now attached to the band. Hatchett brings a sensibility and expertise perfectly attuned to Adams’ background. Central to the new sound is guitarist Patrick Hatchett, whose CV includes nu-roots band The Soothsayers, and Jerry Dammers’ Afro-futurist Spatial AKA Orchestra. Adams has now assembled a cast of collaborators that fit with his urge for sonic experimentation, his background in sound system culture, and his open-ness to the exciting influences all around him in contemporary multicultural London. Re-Record… Not Fade Away is the statement of a producer and a band that have found their sound, and that sound is outernational, futuristic and experimental, drawing from the innovations of downtempo/trip-hop to augment organic, rootsy music. The Madness hook-up made perfect sense, as YesKing shares that band’s huge debt to Jamaican music, filtered through a twenty-first century, decidedly quirky sensibility… It’s been a while since producer Rhys Adams dropped his first YesKing album (2008’s Rock This World) and since then he has taken the concept and run with it… literally, as a band that has turned into something of a fixture on the festival circuit (Glastonbury, Birmingham Jazz and WOMAD last summer) and toured supporting none other than original rude boys Madness.
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