Where the Rainbow Ends...

There's a dub tune I'm really "encantada" with called "Rainbow Dub" by Williams Traffic. The track itself is kinda cool, but I think it should have been mixed a little better (some of the levels are a little uneven.) The *cool* part is the vocal by James Earl Jones (Darth Vader's voice.) I was wondering where the poem he reads is from, turns out it's a South African poem:

"Where the Rainbow Ends" - Richard Rive

Where the rainbow ends there's going to be a place, brother, Where the world can sing all sorts of songs, And we're going to sing together, brother, you and I, though you're white and i'm not.

It's going to be a sad song, brother, because we don't know the tune, And it's a difficult tune to learn. But we can learn, brother, you and I. There's no such tune as a black tune. There's no such tune as a white tune. There's only music, brother, and it's music we're going to sing Where the rainbow ends.
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Kinda powerful, isn't it?

Anyway, I'd like to find the original reading by Mr. Jones. I'm still planning on getting a digital version of the dub track--I used to have it on vinyl. A link for listening (don't buy it here--it's the evil AMAZON): http://www.amazon.co.uk/More-Dub-Infusions-Various-Artists/dp/B000060K0D
Here's a link to where you SHOULD get your copy (digital/cd): http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SBCD0002/ (The graphic is the Album Cover.)

Maybe I'll give "Rainbow" a T-Bird "re-touch." ;)

Speaking of "re-touches" I've got a couple I've done recently that I'm pretty happy with: Zed Bias' "Boomerang" (for a remix contest) and Los Mono's "Promesas" (muchas gracias a Erik@Giant Step y Zen @ Sonic360!) Hopefully one of those will get artist approval... Regardless, I've got to put them in some mix online...

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