VARIOUS – Fire Over Babylon: Dread, Peace and Conscious Sounds at Studio One – 2LP – Vinyl

LABEL: Soul Jazz

CAT NO: SJRLP465

BARCODE: 5026328004655

Tracklisting:

1. Freddie McGregor I Am a Revolutionist
2. The Silvertones Burning In My Soul
3. Wailing Souls Without You
4. Devon Russell Jah Jah Fire
5. Trevor Clarke Sufferation
6. The Gladiators Sonia
7. Judah Eskender Tafari Always Trying
8. The Viceroys Ya Ho
9. Im and Count Ossie Give Me Back Me Language And Me Culture
10. The Gladiators Serious Thing
11. The Prospectors Glory For I
12. Wailing Souls Things and Time
13. Pablove Black Inner Peace
14. The Gladiators Peace
15. Horace Andy Mr. Jolly Man
16. Wailing Souls Rock But Dont Fall
17. Albert Griffiths and The Gladiators Righteous Man
18. So Many Problems The Viceroys

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Fire Over Babylon: Dread, Peace and Conscious Sounds at Studio One

2LP Heavyweight Black Vinyl
(Housed in a Gatefold Sleeve. Includes download code.)

Soul Jazz Records new Studio One collection Fire Over Babylon: Dread, Peace and Conscious Sounds at Studio One features a stellar selection of 70s roots music classic and rare tracks recorded at Clement Dodds musical empire at 13 Brentford Road in the 1970s.

Rastafarian-inspired Roots music was an ever-important aspect of Studio Ones output from the start of the 1970s onwards and this album features many of the ground- breaking groups and artists that established the sound of Jamaica during this decade and beyond.

Featured here are seminal artists such as Freddie McGregor, The Wailing Souls, The Gladiators, Horace Andy, Devon Russell, Cedric Brooks, Count Ossie and Judah Eskender Tafari alongside a host of lesser-known rare cuts made at Studio One from artists such as The Prospectors, Viceroys and Pablove Black.

Studio One and founder Clement Dodds connection with Rastafarianism dates back to the early 1960s, with Dodd accompanying members of the Skatalites up to the hills of Kingston to listen to the music of the Rastafarian Count Ossie and his drummers.

The album sleevenotes discuss how Clement Dodds musical links, as well as his role in heading the most important record label in Reggae, are in many ways linked to the beliefs of Rastafarianism.