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It's difficult to define an album like "Clear Blues Skies" by Juggaknots in just one word. Alongside the word "masterpiece," you must necessarily add an adjective: "forgotten."
Indeed, because the album in question is nothing more than a remastered and expanded version of the eponymous EP, released in '96 without adequate distribution and quickly falling into oblivion.
Fortune had it that the independent label Third Earth Music remembered this wonderful album and re-released it, revised and corrected, in 2003. And, absurdly, "Clear Blue Skies" still sounds fresh and current, not dated at all, and better than much of the stuff released nowadays.
Tracks like "Trouble Man," "Epiphany," "Loosifa," or the two versions (original and remix) of the title track truly make one shout about a miracle: simple and powerful hip-hop, like it was made a few years ago, and that today, alas, is lacking.
Honor and credit to Juggaknots, then, and congratulations to Third Heart for republishing a masterpiece forgotten too soon.
Unmissable.
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