Dezarie - Reggae (US)

Dezarie is a female roots reggae singer born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. She received Atlanta's "Best New Female Reggae Artist" award in 2001 before returning to St. Croix.

She works closely with Midnite. She currently has five albums available. They are entitled Fya (I Grade Records), Gracious Mama Africa, Eaze The Pain, The Fourth Book and her most recent is entitled "Love in Your Meditation".

In 2002 she collaborated with Bambu Station on Talking Roots volume 1 album on song Woe.

Love In Your Meditation (2014)

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Mista Savona - Afro Cuban Latin Reggae

Producer, arranger and musician Jake Savona (pka Mista Savona) brought together a stellar assortment of Cuban and Jamaican musicians to create this collection of re-interpreted classics and original songs as a soundtrack to an upcoming documentary of the same title. Havana Meets Kingston is a tour through these two historic island nations highlighting the common ground between the two, through rhythm and culture.

Recorded at the Egrem Studios in Cuba, it’s hard to believe that this is hailed as the first collaboration between Cuban and Jamaican musician. Two islands rich in musical heritage and culture – although geographically small, their musical output has had a profound and far-reaching impact on popular music.

Havana Meets Kingston (2017)

I Kong - A Reggae Legend

Kong is the nephew of Leslie Kong, producer of many reggae bands from the early days, including The Wailers. (It was Kong's release The Best of the Wailers that angered the band so much that Peter Tosh cursed him.) Family legacy aside. Jamaikan reggae singer, born on April 18, 1947 and grown up in downtown Kingston. In the early 60s, he was founding member of the rocksteady group The Jamaicans. 

The nephew of legendary 1960s Chinese-Jamaican reggae producer Leslie Kong – who was instrumental in launching the careers of Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley and Desmond Dekker, among others – Jamaica-born I KONG is an old-school reggae icon in his own right.

A Little Walk

Pass It On

Orquestra Brasileira de Música Jamaicana - Reggae Ska (Brazil)

The Orquestra Brasileira de Música Jamaicana (Brazilian Jamaican Music Orchestra) or OBMJ was conceived by musician and producer Sérgio Soffiatti and trumpeter Felippe Pipeta in 2005 and founded in 2008.  In the beginning, the main idea was to play Jamaican roots music (ska, rocksteady and early reggae), then the idea of playing basical songs in these styles appeared. 

OBMJ band:

Ruben Marley: Trombone

Otavio Nestares: Trumpet and Flugel

Fernando Bastos: Tenor Sax and Flute

Igor Thomaz: Alto baritone Sax

Fabio Luchs: Drums

Rafael Toloi: Bass

Pedro Cunha: Keyboards

Felippe Pipette: Trumpet and Flugel

Sérgio Soffiatti: Guitar and vocals

Ataca! (2015)

The Bombing: The Very Best Of Bost & Bim Reggae

French production duo Bost & Bim have for the past 15 years continuously put out new and exciting reggae music. They have managed to gain respect from all around the world and collaborated with top-notch singers and deejays like Sizzla, Capleton, Chronixx, Gentleman and Alborosie.

Bost & Bim have never been huge fans of genres and they have put an effort into blending organic rootsy riddims with digital dancehall-fused reggae, hip-hop and soul. Sometimes sophisticated and grand, at other times minimalist and hard. They have also been pioneering reggae mash-ups with their acclaimed Yankees a Yard mixtapes, on which they give new life to well-known hip-hop and R&B by transforming them into groovy reggae.

The Bombing - The Very Best Of Bost & Bim Reggae Remixes

The Drastics - A Dub Reggae Tribute for Michael Jackson

The Drastics are a roots-oriented dub reggae group hailing from Chicago. Though primarily classified as a reggae group, The Drastics embrace many styles of music both live and in the studio. This can be heard in their songs which draw from roots reggae, hip hop, jazz (mostly hard-bop), afro-beat, dancehall, as well as folk musics from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America.

The Drastics play roots reggae from 1982's future of 2187. Incorporating heavy dubs, traditional elements, modern mentalities, and esoteric sounds.

Bubbles Abbinanti - Drums, Hammond Organ, Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, Baritone Sax, Percussion, Melodica 

Lisa Marie Merrill - Bass 

Elephant Man's Skeleton Ross - Guitar 

Neverland Ranch Riley - Tenor Sax 

Ben The Mouse Zelm - Trombone 

MJ A Rocker (The Drastics VS Michael Jackson)

Young, Gifted & Black - The New Reggae Generation

Young, Gifted And Black acts as an excellent primer for a new generation of reggae enthusiasts. With their vigorous reissue programme, Trojan Records appear to be inspired by the recent success of the Blood And Fire label, although their own specialist field is ska and rocksteady rather than deep dub. The endorsements in the sleeve booklet come from Don Letts and UB40's Robin Campbell, with the latter highlighting this set's populist accessibility. There's a wide range to be covered in this handsome package, so any selection is bound to end up with some degree of subjectivity. Even so, it's hard to go wrong with two discs and 50 tracks, spanning the best part of two decades. Selections like "Oh Carolina" (The Folkes Brothers) and "Guns Of Navarone" (The Skatalites) sound like long-lost audio relics, the very beginnings of ska. Prince Buster clicks and puffs through "Al Capone", providing the impetus for Madness and The Specials. If some tunes weren't hits the first time around, they had their day as covers by the likes of Blondie, The Clash and UB40. The metamorphosis into rocksteady happened quickly and, early on disc 2, Bob Marley's sudden entrance illustrates how shocking reggae's slowed-down minimalism must have sounded in the early 1970s. Much of the second disc is dominated by a lighter pop-reggae, at its worst with "Side Show" (Barry Biggs), and its best with "Uptown Top Ranking" (Althea & Donna). We also get to hear the banned naughties of "Wet Dream" and "Big Seven" (Max Romeo and Judge Dread), never allowed in the playgrounds of the 1970s. --Martin Longley

Young, Gifted & Black, Vol. 1

Young, Gifted & Black, Vol. 2

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Rockers Control - Dub Reggae (Brazil)

Rockers Control, a band from São Paulo that explores the "good vibes" of reggae and dub in their compositions. Jacuípe Sessions, the group's first and only solo album, was released in 2008 and named after the place where it was recorded: Jacuípe is a city on the Bahia coast, where the "Coaxo do Sapo" inn / studio is located. such sessions were designed.

The album gives the impression of being recorded without haste, exploring the timing of the dub, leaving a climate of peace and tranquility in the air. Rockers Control is one of the bands that accompanies the events organized by the collective Dubversão Sound System, responsible for filling the streets of São Paulo. In addition to Rockers Control, members also play or accompany other bands and musicians from the São Paulo scene.

Bruno Buarque (bateria) 

Cris Scabello (guitarra) 

Décio 7 (percussão) 

Massa Rock (teclado e voz) 

Mau (baixo)

Yellow P (seleção e operação)

Jacuípe Session

The Skatalites - Groove Ska Reggae (Jamaica)

More than a band, the Skatalites were and are an institution, an aggregation of top-notch musicians who didn't merely define the sound of Jamaica, they were the sound of Jamaica across the '50s and '60s. Although the group existed in its original incarnation for less than 18 months, members brought their signature styles to hundreds upon hundreds of the island's releases. The Skatalites officially lined up as guitarist Jerome "Jah Jerry" Hinds, bassist Lloyd Brevett, teenaged pianist Donat Roy "Jackie" Mittoo, drummer Lloyd Knibbs, trumpeter Johnnie "Dizzie" Moore, Cuban-born tenor saxophonist Tommy McCook, alto saxophonists Lester Sterling and Cuban born Roland Alphonso, and trombonist Don Drummond. Moore, McCook, Sterling, and Drummond were all alumni of the Alpha Cottage School for Boys, an educational institution for troubled and troublesome boys in Kingston, run by the Catholic diocese. Besides the regular lashings of studies, the school was renowned for its music program, and over the years turned hundreds of wayward boys into performers of note. All four ended up playing the hotel circuit, churning out R&B and jazz covers for the tourists.

Ball of Fire finds a reunited Skatalites reworking their greatest hits, playing long, extended passages that allow the band to demonstrate their substantial instrumental abilities. Fans of the punchy early singles may find this approach a little unsettling, but anyone who gets into the groove will find Ball of Fire to be a delight, a thoroughly respectable comeback from one of ska's greatest groups.

Ball of Fire 

Ini Kamoze - Reggae (Jamaica)

Ini Kamoze (born Cecil Campbell on 9 October 1957), is a Jamaican reggae artist who began his career in the early 1980s and returned to prominence in 1994 with the signature song "Here Comes the Hotstepper". The single topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as well as record charts in Denmark and New Zealand, reaching number four on the UK Singles Chart.

Ini Kamoze (1984)

Super Spanish Combo - Hip Hop, Salsa, Funk, Reggae

The group was born in Barcelona at the end of 2010, from the union of musicians of different nationalities and styles and with a long trajectory on the stages. After going through several stages in which they have combined several formats, the band bases its proposal on a completely acoustic show, but without forgetting the essence of electronic music, which helps to build a bridge between tradition and the latest trends. His live is a mix of explosive and 100% danceable themes. Thanks to its interaction with attendees and the spontaneity of its members, Super Spanish Combo offers a vibrant and fun show, with its social themes, it reaches a very diverse audience.

Super Spanish Combo

Jackie Mitto & The SoulBrothers - Reggae, Funk, Ska (Jamaica)

After the Skatalites disbanded in the mid-'60s, Jamaican producer Clement Dodd brought in several of the group's members as the house band for his Studio One facility, teaming them with some of the younger musicians he had discovered. The Soul Brothers, as the in-house group was initially called, were led by keyboardist, arranger, and soul master Jackie Mittoo and the equally as talented tenor sax player Roland Alphonso. Officially, this configuration recorded for Dodd between 1965 and 1967, churning out hundreds of the now-trademark Studio One-styled rhythms that Dodd would use as backing tracks for his singing artists. Often, though, Mittoo, Alphonso, and company got to cut loose and create their own instrumentals over the rhythms, and several of these delightful sides are collected here. Recorded just as ska was giving way to the deeper, slower rhythms of rocksteady, tracks like the skipping and rolling "Train to Skaville" (which isn't really ska at all, although it shows up repeatedly on ska collections in the Ethiopians' vocal version), the push and pull feel of "Take Ten," the ragged yet sure "Chicken and Booze," and the infectiously bubbly "Home Made" are closer to being a kind of unique Jamaican version of soul-jazz than anything else (compare the one vocal track here, "Got My Boogaloo," to Jimmy Smith's version of "Got My Mojo Working" to hear how close to American soul-jazz this stuff really is). Whatever the label, it's all pure fun, and durable, as these incredible rhythms continue to be versioned well into the 21st century.

Following on from Soul Jazz Records' earlier Jackie Mittoo The Keyboard King at Studio One comes Jackie Mittoo and The Soul Brothers Last Train To Skaville. Jackie Mittoo is one of the most important artists in the history of Jamaican music. As founding member of the legendary Skatalites, as in-house arranger/producer at Studio One and as a solo artist in his own right leading groups such as The Soul Brothers, Sound Dimension and Soul Vendors. These classic and rare recordings were made in the mid-1960s at Studio One. The Soul Brothers bridged the gap between Ska and the arrival of Rocksteady mixing it all up with Funk, Jazz and Latin styles.

Jackie Mitto & The SoulBrothers - Last Train To SkaVille

Keith Hudson - The Dark Prince of Reggae (Jamaica)

Keith Hudson aka the "Dark Prince of Reggae" (1946 – 14 November 1984),[1] was a Jamaican reggae artist and record producer. He is known for his influence on the Dub movement. In 1976 he moved to New York City and signed a four-year contract with Virgin Records, the first release being the soul-influenced album, Too Expensive, which was poorly received by critics and didn't sell well. Hudson returned to reggae with the "(Jonah) Come Out Now" single, released under the pseudonym Lloyd Linberg, and Virgin terminated his contract. Hudson then started a new label of his own, Joint. He resumed working with the Soul Syndicate, who had backed him on many of his best recordings in Jamaica. His album Rasta Communication (1978), which had been preceded by its issue on dub as Brand, was well received by a wider audience and is considered a roots reggae classic. It was followed by Nuh Skin Up Dub and its vocal counterpart From One Extreme to Another in 1979. Hudson also released a deejay album by Militant Barry based on the Brand rhythms, Green Valley. By the early 1980s, he was considerably out of step with modern trends in "dancehall" music. He reverted to his classic rhythms for his next to last album Playing It Cool (1981), recording new vocals on heavily overdubbed mixes of the earlier tunes. He released one final album in 1982, Steaming Jungle, which attracted little attention. It was reported in 1984 that he was once more working with Aston and Carlton Barrett, who had played on Pick a Dub and Torch of Freedom. Hudson was diagnosed with lung cancer in August 1984, and appeared to be responding well to treatment, but on the morning of 14 November he complained of stomach pains, collapsed and died.

Keith Hudson - Flesh of My Skin, Blood of my Blood (1974)