From the liner notes: “This reissue attempts to be the definitive version of this classic; longer than any of the previous five issues, it also includes scarce mixes of several tracks on the bonus CD, all digitally remastered to provide the optimum sound quality.”

Jewel case and Slipcase version that was released after the production of the original Digipak-style release was stopped.
This is a press by Universal M & L, dating it from April 1999 to April 2002.

Recorded in The Black Ark 1976/77, Cardiff Crescent, Washington Gardens, Kingston, Jamaica.

Mastered at the Town House, London.
Digital Restoration at Room 63, Abbey Road Studios, London.
Design and Art Direction at Intro, London.
Project Co-ordination for Blood and Fire Limited.

Congoman/Congoman Chant are taken from the master tape for Island Black Swan 12″ issue, first released in 1977 and not available since then.
Bring The Mackaback is a dub version to Fisherman previously available as a Jamaican 7″ B-side released on the Upsetter label.
Noah Sugar Pan is Scratch’s B-side dub mix to the Black Art label 7″ of Ark of the Covenant first issued in 1977.
Solid Foundation is from the master tape of the Jamaican Upsetter 12″ mix.

Special Thanks: Cedric and Yvonne Myton, Roydel Johnson, Barry Frankson, Andrea Lewis, Clive Chin and Mandy Campbell, Bob Perry, Lisa Barbaris & Max King, David Katz, Jeremy Collingwood and Trevor Wyatt.

Zairean Mask from: Idonia Van Der Bijl, 25a Museum Street, London WC1.

℗ 1977 The Congos
© 1996 Blood and Fire Limited.

Made in England.