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Origine du Groupe : V.A , Jamaica
Style : Compilation , Reggae , Dub , Neo-Roots
Sortie : 2012


Tracklist :
01 - John Holt - Police In Helicopter
02 - Human Spirit - Les indiens
03 - Steel Pulse - Sound system
04 - RND - Flok
05 - Black Grass - Oh jah ft. Jah Marnyah
06 - Rod Taylor - In The Right Way
07 - Sebastian Sturm - Don't Look Back
08 - Dezarie - Ghettos of Babylon
09 - Hollie Cook - Walking in the sand
10 - Professor - Mind of man
11 - Deborah Keese - Travelling
12 - The Aggrolites - Eye of Obarbas
13 - The Eclips Band - Corrupted society
14 - TelDem Com'unity - Get Be Stronger  Feat. Joe Pilgrim
15 - Aggrovators - Uhro express
16 - Funde - La peur du lendemain
17 - Scientist - Black out
18 - Ansel Collins with Sly and Robbie - German Soldier
19 - The Skatalites - African roots dub
20 - Negusa - Iwok
21 - Oye Primate - Ilegal
22 - Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters - Super Ape
23 - Zion Train - Terror Talk feat Dubdadda
24 - Niominka Bi & Ndiaxas Band - Afrique Jamaique (feat. Winston McAnuff)
25 - Keller Williams - Positive
26 - King Tubby and the Aggrovators - Feel so good dub
27 - Barrington Levy - Black roses
28 - Daïpivo - Fire  Dub P13
29 - Solo Banton - One Of The Greatest
30 - Nahuatl Sound System - Pescador de Fuego Tor ma in Dub Remix
31 - Corey Harris - Sweat Shop
32 - Willie Williams - Turn on the power

http://www.lee-perry.com
http://www.myspace.com/leescratchperry


Origine du Groupe : Jamaica
Style : Reggae , Dub , Psychedelic
Sortie : 1978


By Oufar-Khân from http://oufarkhan.blogspot.com

A follow-up to the highly acclaimed dub opus Super Ape, Return of the Super Ape, like most sequels, never reaches the heights of its predecessor. However, there are some exceptional moments that make the album worth a careful listen. Most notable are the dark Psyche and Trim, and the celebratory Dyon-Anaswa, and the near-comical Tell Me Something Good. Still, the album showcases the prodigious production skills of undisputed dub master Lee “Scratch” Perry's insanely layered textures and technical wizardry. With the Upsetters providing deft musical backing, Perry leads the listener through a surreal world of psychedelic Rastafarianism with lyrics like “We gotta get the vampire, we got to put him on a wire... Jah Jah is a natty dread.” Relentless, ganja-stoked basslines and eerie echoes punctuate all the tracks.


Tracklist :
 1. Dyon-Anasaw
 2. Return of the Super Ape
 3. Tell Me Something Good
 4. Bird in Hand
 5. Crab Years
 6. Jah Jah a Natty Dread
 7. Psyche & Trim
 8. The Lion
 9. Huzza a Hana
10. High Ranking Sammy

http://www.roots-archives.com


Origine du Groupe : V.A , Jamaica
Style : Reggae , Dub
Sortie : 1978


Producer : Dennis Bovell


Tracklist :
01 - Errol Campbell - Jah Man
02 - Bagga Matumbi - Sun Is Shining
03 - Sonny Tomm - Movements
04 - Angelique - Cry
05 - Raaw - Lili Twill
Junior Brown - Jah Find Babylon Guilty
Errol Campbell - Jah Man Dub
Bagga Matumbi - Shining Is Shining
Sonny Tomm - Movement Dub
Angelique - Cry Dub
Raaw - Lili Twill (Dub)
Junior Brown - Babylon In A Dub

http://www.corey-harris.com


Origine du Groupe : North America
Style : Reggae , Blues
Sortie : 2007

By Robert R.  From http://www.popmatters.com

Corey Harris’ Zion Crossroads is quite simply a highly accomplished musical contribution owing to the continuing artistic, moral, and cultural tradition of the late and revered Bob Marley, among others. The music’s somewhat gentler and more lyrical than Marley’s: Harris apparently feels more assurance in the message than any need to insist on it. Opening with Michael Wagner’s trombone on “Ark of the Covenant”, the set begins with a declaration of faith in a spirit of peace and consolation.

If he’s not trying for Marley’s intensity and drive in delivery, he’s not faking. I won’t comment on the cogency of Rastafarian doctrines, but it’s not hard to see that the questions they address could nowadays be more real to many than they were during Marley’s too-short life. “No Peace for the Wicked” is positively revivalist in its moralizing, featuring a second vocal from Ranking Joe.  “Heathen Rage” has the same spirit and feel as the nearest Gospel gets to Marvin Gaye. The rhythm is reggae, the doctrine Rasta—religious, cultural, humanitarian, and with a belief in Hell and damnation.

Harris is a very musical performer with as much insight into reggae as he has brought to blues (of which there are echoes in some of the guitar-licks of “Sweatshop”). His depth of scholarship has the formal testimony of the academic CV, university studies, teaching appointments, and field research on African music mentioned in the notes of this album. On the one hand this connects him with European jazz performers who came up after 1945 playing 1920s and 1930s music, digging into blues and kindling the serious 1960s interest in that music which certainly underlies some of his earlier performing work. On the other hand, in a comparative historical regard, he’s not an anomaly within the sort of musical and spiritual traditions of which the music here might be a part.  The songs or hymns here are Harris’s compositions, expressing a body of fairly orthodox Rastafarian teachings. With the exception of one song in French, the language is a Caribbean patois English, and Harris, with little exception, sings with an authentic Caribbean pronunciation.

The historical scholar of slavery and later political activist, Walter Rodney, murdered in his native Georgetown, Guyana, is remembered in the apocalyptic context these songs attempt to establish. Harris sings an African intro to “Walter Rodney” accompanied by the African stringed instrument of Cheik Hamala Diabate (ngani), which surfaces again as a refrain and recollection in the band accompaniment to the main song “Walter Rodney”.  In the hymn in French, Africa is remembered: the violated and robbed, father and mother and sister. “Cleanliness” is the next hymn, and whereas “the last time it was with water”, meaning the Flood, the next deluge will be flaming and final. Noah’s ark won’t do; nothing will suffice short of establishing as “your Habitation… Hola (holy) Mount Zion”, and taking that as the necessary permanent centre of moral and all orientation.

There is a repeated reference on pressure gathering, and in the song “Plantation Town” it’s building still. The end is apparently nigh, and nigh too are the biblical as well as historical references in Harris’s allusive and terse texts. There is a strong sub-text to all of them, one of many good reasons to follow his injunction in “Keep Your Culture”: “If you don’t, who gonna do it for you/ If you don’t stop crying these blues/ If you don’t put up a fight/ If not you, then who… what you gonna do/…/ The lion still a-conquering/ Fighting still.”


Tracklist :
1. Ark of the Covenant
2. No Peace for the Wicked
3. Heathen Rage
4. Sweatshop
5. In the Morning
6. Fire Go Come
7. Walter Rodney Intro
8. Walter Rodney
9. Afrique (Chez Moi)
10. Cleanliness
11. Plantation Town
12. You Never Know
13. Keep Your Culture

http://kellerwilliams.net
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Origine du Groupe : North America
Style : Reggae , Alternative , Reggae Jazz , Neo Roots
Sortie : 2011

By Tim Hurley from http://www.honesttune.com

Multi-faceted artist Keller Williams releases his 17th album this month, and it stays true to his one-name-album formula, this time with the appropriately titled Bass. Keller takes the reigns as primary vocalist and bass player, and is backed by his touring reggae-funk band Kdubalicious, consisting of Jay Starling on keyboards and Mark D on drums (fellow Virginians who have worked with Keller before as members of the reggae-tinged Transmitters). Williams may be primarily known as a guitar player, but he proves here that he is no slouch on the bass either.

His playful songwriting method and signature vocals are not much different from his previous 16 releases; however this project leans more toward jazz and reggae versus the roots, bluegrass, and jam of most his other albums, and it benefits greatly by having accompanying musicians rather than his usual one-man-band projects.  Although this is not his first foray into leading a band as he has done so before on previous installments such as Keller and the Keels, Keller Williams and the WMDs, The Keller Williams Incident, etc., it still marks a progression for his ever-changing craft.

If any folks have been hesitant about getting into Keller’s music, Bass may just win them over with its accessibility and effortless flow. The airy jazz grooves heard on the excellent “The Sun and The Moon’s Vagenda” – highlighted by Starling’s melodic piano and Mark D’s rhythmic drumming – as well as the upbeat, breezy reggae of “Positive” are smooth and extremely ear-pleasing.

His lyrical wit is strong as usual, displayed on the catchy funk number “Hey Ho Jorge” (I like my funk well-done, never rare … I eat the funk), the pop-reggae tune “Super Hot” where he rants about the “hot chicks in the front row”, as well as the hilarious “I Am Elvis” (I like to snowboard naked in the morning, jump out of a helicopter and freeze my behind).

But aside from all the humorous lyrics and positive vibes, some of the best moments on this album happen when the trio shakes free from the anchor and jam, seemingly swimming together through relaxing chords shown on such songs as the soft reggae tune “High” and the jazz-fusion track ”Buena”.

This album may not represent Keller’s strongest work (look to 2007′s Dream for that), but there is a certain wonderful chillness to it all. And you have to appreciate Keller’s choice to continuously try new projects with varying styles and players. His first 10 or so studio recordings were just him and looping machines, which were becoming a bit redundant and tiresome. Over the course of his last five albums he has gone in a different direction each time, which is welcome. He performs better as a band leader than a solo artist, this much is sure, and having the talents of Jay Starling and Mark D along for this ride works brilliantly.

Bass is out now on SCI Fidelity.


Tracklist :
1. The Sun & Moon's Vagenda
2. 2bu
3. Hey Ho Jorge
4. I Am Elvis
5. Hollywood Freaks
6. Thinking Out Loud
7. High
8. Buena
9. Super Hot
10. Hobo Jungle
11. Positive