Thor Madsen, the artist known as Thor De Force, returns to Ropeadope with two projects in 2020. While the next full length LP is set to arrive in May, Thor demonstrates his eternal curiosity by re-imagining two well know classics from Bob Marley to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Marley’s birth. Due out on February 6th, the singles are recorded with a fresh new Jazz Trio with no vocals, just the spacious sound of guitar, acoustic bass and drums.

Jeppe Skovbakke on acoustic bass pays homage to the great Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett while Jeppe Gram’s subtle drumming moves the music out of the reggae realm. I take the lead role on guitar rendering the vocal lines of Marley while incorporating some of the key instrumental elements from the original recordings. It is my hope that people sing the lyrics to themselves while listening. I want to show the extraordinary beauty of these songs stripped to the bone.

Sun Is Shining by Marley & The Wailers is one of those magical songs to me. The descending melody line played on melodica by the great Peter Tosh is haunting as few in Lee Scratch Perry's original production from 1971.

Waiting in Vain is one the best known Marley songs and also one of the first I heard from Exodus - my first Marley LP and by far the one I have listened to the most.