Were discovered 13 cassettes of unpublished recordings of Bob Marley in the basement of a hotel in London. The ideal gift to celebrate the 72 years that the king of reggae would make this Monday if it were alive.
Joe Gatt, entrepreneur, londoner and fan of Bob Marley, he received a call from a friend who had found what seemed to be lost recordings of Bob Marley. The 13 audio cassettes were inside a cardboard box, in the basement of an old hotel in Kensal Rise, London, where Bob Marley and the Wailers were during the tours through Europe.
I could not just let those objects, damaged, or not, to be destroyed, and then I asked him that not to lie down outside" account JoeGatt, quoted by the Guardian.
So now the cassettes of the 1970s to the "hands" of his partner and singer of jazz Louis Hoover. But the recordings, with more than 40 years, could be ruined. "When I saw the labels and notes in the cassettes could not believe my eyes, but after you see how were severely damaged by the water". Louis believed that saved them was "a task without hope."
once More, the wheels went to another target: the sound expert Martin Nichols, who ensures that the recordings would be lost forever if someone had tried to listen to them in the conditions they were in. Of the 13 cassettes, Martin managed to restore ten (which took more than 12 months and cost 25 thousand dollars). Two were blank and one too corrupted to be saved. "The end result surprised me because now they are in digital format in high quality. The original recordings were done very professionally," says the expert.
The experience is comparable to find the easel by Van Gogh, the palette and his paintings on a antique room. Then Vincent (Van Gogh) emerges through a secret door to paint some of his best masterpieces… purely for us.
The recordings are documents of concerts held in London and Paris, between 1974 and 1978, and gather some of greatest hits of Bob Marley such as "no Woman no Cry", "Jammin," "Exodus" and "I Shot the Sheriff".
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