AUGUSTUS PABLO - Spirit of Umoja - reggae 12" dub melodica

On Castro & Dennis Brown's DEB label this is a spooky instrumental by the melodica master Augustus Pablo and backed by The Revolutionaries. Produced by Dennis Brown. 1978.

http://xraymusic.co.uk/album/dennis_brown_return_to_umoja_cd.htm
With classic revival vocal and dub music from Jamaica now in such popular demand, the time is right to reintroduce to today's reggae audiences one of the great, unsung labels of the mid-to-late seventies..... DEB was formed by producer Castro Brown and famed Jamaican singing star Dennis Emmanuel Brown, whose initials gave the label it's title. Dennis was riding high with the mighty 'Wolves and Leopards' when DEB began, and had already enjoyed considerable success with a number of top JA producers, including Studio One's Coxsone Dodd, Derrick Harriott, Joe Gibbs and Niney the Observer. By the time he teamed up with Castro he was looking to control his own business interests, with a particular view to recording other acts.
Basing their operations from premises in Battersea Rise, South London, they voiced some of reggae's finest talents over the next few years. Artists like Black Uhuru, Junior Delgado, former Heptone Leroy Sibbles, Carlton and the Shoes, dubmaster
Augustus Pablo, Jah Thomas, Earl Cunningham, UK Lovers rock group Me & You and Dennis Brown himself were among those to appear on DEB from 1976 until the label's demise in the early Eighties: performing on riddims created by Jamaica's most celebrated session musicians. These included Sly & Robbie, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Lloyd Parks, Winston Wright, percussionists Sticky and Scully, the late Roots Radic guitarist Bingy Bunny, Mikey "Boo" Richards, hornsman Cedric "Im" Brooks and others, working from famous studios such as Channel One, Joe Gibbs, Harry J and King Tubby's where a young Prince Jammy (later to become ragga godfather King Jammy) would transform these crucial blasts of pure heavyweight drum and bass into a succession of well received DEB dub albums like 'Twentieth Century Dubwise" and "Umoja Dub."
Nearly two decades later, this music sounds better than ever. "Return To Umoja" is a compilation of dubs to songs like Black Uhuru's "Rent Man", Dennis Brown's "Slave Driver" and Junior Delgado's "Armed Robbery" and includes the highly sought after "Spirit Of Umoja" by Augustus Pablo.
We're talking strictly dubwise vibes from Jamaica; free from all counterfeit or added remixes. A deep, meditational groove which brings to mind sky juice, ital food, high grade collie herb and hot nights spent rocking to the best reggae music in the world...

Written by John Masourie

Category:

Music

Tags:

• reggae
• roots
• dub
• Augustus
• pablo
• revolutionaries
• Spirit
• Umoja
• dennis
• brown
• melodica
• 12
• 45
• rpm

[malcstag]

where do you get this stuff from respect! Blessed for posting

[wikidub]

You are welcome. Glad I can share this great music with people through YT.

[majorgeneraldespair]

one of the phattest tunes

iriex

[ZIONHIGHER]

This is the Swing Easy Riddim.

[is300ss]

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[Dondaddyh]

One of the great dubs, I remember hearing this the first time i went to see Shaka, Dreads every where skanking on a cloud of smoke.

Thanks for the memories.

[2111morgan1]

who needs weed when theres music like this

[dodododatdatdat]

swing easy, yess, but also Fever from junior byles..

[MsRandomPro]

so sick AHHH

OMG O.O

Just Love this Thanks For sharing it

One Love!!

[pachanoii]

Skanking Easy!!!

[kikiranks]

this is the A.P.'s version for "Swing easy"... LOL

[waldgeist2]

Jah Bless

Inity fi di I.retah

mi give thanx for upload teh tune,

Loooong time mi could`t hear:)

InI solid as a rock

Selassie

Jah Love