DANCEHALL pioneer Clevie Brownie is finalising plans to tour UK and Japan starting next month with regrouped sound system Silver Hawk, whilst also releasing two albums this year entitled Anthology and Memories.

These projects are in tribute to late Wycliffe ‘Steely’ Johnson, the other, half of Steely and Clevie Productions. Its the first tour and release of material since Steely died last year, Clevie Brownie told the Observer on Saturday.

“Before Steely passed he wanted to bring back Silver Hawk,” he said while editing a track for the upcoming album. “Having passed away we decided to fulfil his mission to bring the sound back and also have some quality music in the dancehall.”

The sound was relaunched in January in New York and the Observer then noted that management included original selector Richard Reid (Richie Poo); Evert Palmer, road manager; Luciana Maneri, manager and producer Clevie Browne.

On Saturday Brownie added that the sound system now run as a business had its name registered for the first time. In January Maneri announced plans for a media launch in Jamaica in late February, but it was not widely publicised if it did indeed occur. Silver Hawk, at its NY launch, also announced plans to tour the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean but dates were not yet set.

“We are now finalising agreements for Japan to tour in December and the UK in August. There is definite interest there,” stated Brownie.

The album Anthology will contain about 40 audio tracks, a DVD and album notes. It will be released on VP Records.

“It’s going to be released in Japan before the end of the year and worldwide early next year,” said Brownie. “Anthology is finished just doing the artwork now. Included in the package is DVD and cliff notes and other interviews.”

Contrastingly Memories is a tribute album of vintage Jamaican “remakes or reproductions” which influenced both artistes as youths.

“On that record we will have music not composed by us but music that we liked growing up in the ’60 and ’70s. It will feature classic compositions from our predecessors. Artistes from the past and producers from the past. We want to bring these sounds to the fore for the now generation because I think many artistes and musicians never got true justice in terms of acclaim,” he explained of Memories.