Burning Spear - Living Dub (PRELP3)

My favorite dub album from one of my favorite reggae albums. When I've first heard this in Zensor's small record shop I felt myself in another world, a world with angels, but another kind of angels than those I knew from listening to music by Bach or Haendel.

Im sure you will enjoy this one! Pay attention to Rico's trombone.

Living Dub was reissued on CD by Heartbeat in a different mix and some years ago in the original mix by Winston Rodney himself (look for "Original Living Dub Vol. 1", it should be available).

Z - In Berlin

1980 was the year I've seen the Specials playing in Berlin. The band together with Rico Rodriguez and Dick Cuthell blew me away. During his short time in Berlin Rico was invited into Paragon studio near Bundesallee.

A new band was recording their first single, "Legalize Erdbeereis", a funny song over a ska beat. With a typic horn line Rico made it to the local summer hit; and he gave some more of his music to another song, "Der Geist".

Finally the band released this LP "In Berlin" in summer of 1980. It's not a record for the island, but an example of music coming out of Berlin at the time. Listen and I hope you will enjoy!