Beginning in the late ’70s, reggae exploded in popularity across the latter’s shores, thanks largely to genre’s patron saint Bob Marley, who performed a historic concert in Auckland in 1979.
Jamaica and New Zealand are located nearly 8,000 miles apart, but the cultural link between the two countries runs deeper than you might expect. Every second of the album is mesmerizing-the kind of music that pulls you back to it again and again so you can bask in its warmth and comfort, and an album I feel confident declaring one of the year’s best.
Bertisch deploys her voice as another instrument throughout the album, exhaling a breathy wordless melody in “Woman of Contrasts,” drifting along like a ghost in the back of “Spirits Lifted,” popping to the fore to offer a phrase or two before disappearing again. When the rhythm finally enters 90 seconds in, it’s just a quiet bass pulse, nudging the rest of the song along like an old shepherd gently prodding a young lamb. On “After the Storm,” misty chords are topped by a three-note synth pattern that sounds like someone slowly striking the sides of a triangle. Assembled chiefly during Covid lockdown, when Bertisch had the opportunity to comb through her vast archives, Prelude is an album you can’t turn away from, a hypnotic collection of hushed electropop that casts its spell slowly but powerfully. It’s no wonder one of the album’s earliest champions was the legendary Anna Domino-there are moments on Prelude that recall the same mysterious synth compositions she was making for the Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule in the mid ‘80s. Rather than quickening the pulse, the album drifts by like a dream-hazy layers of synth moving slowly, like fog across the surface of the ocean. If, like me, you only know Barbie Bertisch as the co-founder of the fantastic Brooklyn dance label Love Injection, your first pass through Prelude may take you by surprise. If you were to F2 these you could find an entire palate of flavors and effects to work with, from extremely heavy indicas to soaring sativas! There is a lot of potential in these and are definitely worth having in the vault.Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track Perfect for preparing to go on a trip down the dessert aisle, and also perfect to be added to your list of strains for a desert isle. You can expect more of those delicious vanilla flavors mixed with a citrus punch from the Mango Isle, and plenty of resin from the Tyrone Stomper to make sure she’s the total package! One I chose to pair with Mango Isle was slightly stretchier, had less dense flower formations than the pure Toof Decay but with better resin coverage and resistance to bud rot.
After popping quite a few to look through the autos I found a few more of those vanilla frosting birthday cake expressions to work with. I made the Toof Decay x Tyrone Stomper back in 2015 using a very special yellow birthday cake smelling expression of Toof Decay and my F1 Tyrone Stomper photoperiod male. Welcome back to the Secret Owl Society! Who is ready for dessert?
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