Strength Inna The Music - Apple Gabriel Livication

Positive music for tough times...
Finding strength in the music  

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Rewind Show 27/03/2020

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Another mixed selection. Some brand new releases rub shoulders with more familiar tracks. Less riddim focused than usual. We start with some Third World style funky reggae, including Prisoner In The Street. Tuff new combination by Anthony B & Lutan Fyah and a heartfelt new song by vereran singer Jay Douglas who teams up with the legendary General Trees!

I had prepared a selection of Apple Gabriel lead & solo tracks to play on this session. Its a tale of tribulation.. But when I heard about Bob Andy & Delroy Washingon I quickly reached for some of their songs too. Andy's Wake Up Everybody resonates strongly in this time. Their music will be cherished for years to come...
Rise In Power!

What A Boderation!

Don't let self-isolation and social-distancing leave you in the cold. Put plenty of good music on, turn it up and watch Babylon reeling...

Rewind Show on rastfm.com 20 March 2020

Its been a really trying couple of weeks when human nature has been on full display for better and worse. And worse is yet to come
What a boderation!
 Lockdown a come so stay strong and try to keep safe through these difficult times everyone wherever you are in the world

Blessed love 💚💛❤️

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Set of mainly fairly recent tracks mix up with a few oldies. Features tracks from the brand new 3rd album from Jah9 Note To Self out now on VP Records. Two tracks from Junior English's Come With Me album from 2008. Also a couple of conscious Eclipse 12'' from 1988 by Scion Success and the excellent Sammy Levi

Excursions on the Columbus (Harmony House/Cave), Country Living (Ruff Touch), I'm Living (Muta), Officer (BD Labs) and Tad's brand new release No Man Is An Island with previously unreleased cuts by blood brothers Dennis & Gregory. Its great to hear new songs by Capleton, Pinchers & Louie Culture. Sizzla is bang on form for I'm Living. The Conscious Underground come with the poignant and uplifting meditation Bless My Soul

Fly U Natty Dread (Militant Roots 3)

 

Part three of the 70s roots discomix style series

FLY U NATTY DREAD

This time we feature some wicked Errol Holt sides & a livication to the late Norris Reid who passed away a couple of weeks ago. A few Upsetter productions, including a Slickers 1976 relick of Johnny Too Bad which came out on Tad's. Also some crucial Sky High 7'' and later on some massive Bunny Lee tunes

vocal - deejay - dubwise

 

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Rest in power Norris Reid

The last surviving member of The Viceroys passed away in February 2020. Best known for his work with Augustus Pablo, the rootsman released 4 solo albums - the most recent in 2015. He also took lead vocals on several of the Viceroys biggest tunes like Rise In The Strength of Jah

His music lives on

Di Great Insohreckshan - UK Roots Reggae 1980s

CLASSIC UK ROOTS 1970s - EARLY 80s
A GREAT INSOHRECKSHAN

Rewind Show on rastfm.com 6 March 2020

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Long play selection with many instrumentals, including tracks from Aswad's someway experimental Hulet LP. Original UK steppers from Aswad, Jah Shaka & Misty In Roots. Also nuff Dennis Bovell productions: Blackbeard, Matumbi, Dub Band, LKJ, Bagga... Jimmy Lindsay's It's Hard is an old favorite 12'' from my youth

Some special requests for the man Den Fabrizi aka @thefactsofwhiteness Give thanks for the input over time bredren & big up the consistently interesting news stream bless...

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Cover pic top right was taken on Lumb Lane Bradford - the epicenter of the old 'front line' outside the Young Lions cafe and the Perseverance 'Percy' pub right back there in the day... Other pics from St Paul's Bristol & London early-mid 80s

Orthodox Twelve Tribes Nyabinghi

Spotlight on the Orthodox label

12 Tribes of Israel Band and related artists.
Rewind Show on rastfm.com 27 Feb 2020
Selections run from 1973 to around 2009

Collection of often beautifully obscure roots music. The 12 Tribes have been based in the US for many years and have backed many reggae greats on tour over there. Their initial works were released mid-70s into the 80s and they resumed production work again in the late 90s, recording foundation veterans as well as artists with links to the international Twelve Tribes Organization, including in London & Manchester.

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The spiritual orientated but little known Dan Hutson & The Seers recorded a series of great songs for Orthodox over the years while the 12 Tribes got Black Ark legend & songwriter Sangie Davis back into the studio in 2000 to voice an album of deeply spiritual and uplifting songs. Orthodox Issachar also recorded 3 albums. Little Roy & Ian Rock featured heavily in the mid-70s along with a host of relatively unknown singers. Their best known track is probably Why Worry by Israel Vibration. There are also links with Judy Mowatt and her Ashandan label. Vocal trio The Visionaires recorded at Orthodox in the early 80s

Despite a separation in time & space the music has a unity of spirit and purpose that blends nicely...

Features tracks from the excellent TTI SHOWCASE VOL. 1 LP released in 1980

and the later 12 Voices Showcase - TTI London (no cover)

Also the Nebuchadnezzar King Of Babylon LP from 1978 backed by the 12 Tribes

Some of the other albums featured here from Orthodox...