Pieces Of Eight

Nine Ton Peanut Smugglers

LP - 2025

As stated in the album liner notes: The technical involvement inherent in the composition of the bountiful treasures in this offering does not in any way detract from the revelation it imparts. This message will reveal itself to you after playing this unusual album a few times. You will learn this is all about a new sound, pure, simple, golden, and musically delightful. Although two-dimensional in depth, the blending of popular sounds from across the seven seas has resulted in the fine work of musical alchemy. Indeed this rare recording is proclaiming the advent of ‘Rhythm ‘n’ Ska’! And what a cavalcade of musical swag, swagger, precious jewels and bootiful bounty you will find on this gem of a release.

The achievement of this sound by this pioneering musical group ‘The Nine Ton Peanut Smugglers’ has been the result of years of experimentation, fortified by the finest overproof rum and that infallible teaching experience, having almost completed the full circuit of the island’s plushest hotels and finest venues, not always by invitation…” (continues in the album)…

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