1975
THE MIGHTY GORGON * CORNELL CAMPBELL * KLIK 607 * UK
The Klik label came into being in 1975, it was set up by Joe Sinclair, Desmond Bryan and Larry Sevett, Sinclair and Bryan who were directors of the then chain of record shops 'Music City' were also part of the Shrowder/Bryan/Sinclair production company. Klik was their main label with which they hoped to release records with, in their words, "cross over" appeal, and the subsidiary Angen was to carry the Roots music. Their first album Dread Locks Dread by Big Youth certainly had cross over appeal and sold quite well to young white men who were at that time beginning to adopt aspects of what was then the rapidly growing and visible second generation of West Indians in the UK. This included the use of cannabis (spliff and pipe) on a regular daily basses, as well as the language, physical gestures, and other aspects of this very individual and particular culture. The above track by Cornell Campbell, although recorded in Jamaica, would have appealed to black youth in the UK who were looking for an echo in their new found self assurance and confidence. The Gorgõ (Gorgons) according to Hesiod, were Sthénõ (the mighty), Eurayãlé (the wide wandering), and Médûsa (the queen). They are the daughters of the aged sea-god Phorcys and Kêtõ. Homer talks of the terrible head of the Gorgon, a formidable monster. In consequence of the belief in the power of the Gorgon's head, or Gorgõneiõn, to paralyse and terrify an enemy, the Greeks carved images of it in its most terrifying forms, not only on armour of all sorts, especially shields and breastplates, but also on walls and gates.
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