‘Higher Powers’ is an innovative collaboration between Musician Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Producer and Mixologist Adrian Sherwood, and Artist Peter Harris.

Legendary Jamaican musician and reggae Pioneer Lee Scratch Perry hardly needs an introduction. Grammy-award winning Perry reigned supreme over the Golden Age of 70’s reggae, writing and performing some of the most seminal albums of the seventies, such as ‘Super Ape’ and ‘Roast Fish, Collie Weed and Corn Bread’. Peter Harris is an Artist and Filmmaker who has collaborated with iconic musicians such as Siouxsie Sioux, The Stranglers and David Bowie. Adrian Sherwood is co-founder of Carib Gems and Pressure Sounds, and his most well-known label is On-U Sound Records where he worked with Prince Far I. Sherwood began working with Perry in 1986, and together they produced the classic album “Time Boom X De Devil Dead”.

Together they made some truly visionary artworks, based on Harris’s drawings around themes as; destiny, fate, luck and doubt. In an explosive collaboration between Artist and Musician, Perry lent his own visionary input to Harris’s graphic, accomplished pen and pencil drawings. The result is a series of one-off artworks produced in a similar way to the automatic drawings of the Surrealists, with a hint of Primitivism, the magic of Voodoo, and the spirit of urban graffiti Artists.

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