None A Dem - Horace Andy

All instruments and lyrics of "Essential" and "Pon Di Road" were played, written and recorded on july 24th, 2014, at Planet Earth Studios, Berlin (www.planet-earth-studios.de)

A1. Essential
A2. Pon Di Road

B1. Essential (Düb Platoon Mix)
B2. Pon Di Dubb

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Video of "Essential":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFrABQjVhZA

Aldubb: drums (Pon Di Road), percussion, organ, recording engineer, mix & dub effects
Dubmatix: guitar, bass, organ, mix & dub effects
Illbilly Hitec: drums (Essential), percussion
Lengualerta: lyrics, vocals
Longfingah: lyrics, vocals

Additional mixes: "Pon Di Dubb“ by Aldubb (Planet Earth Studios, Berlin) and "Essential (Düb Platoon Mix)“ by Dubmatix (Dub Factory Studios, Toronto). Mastering by Aldubb.

Artwork by: Gran OM, Mexico City

Irie Ites Music (IIM021), One-Drop Music (OD023)

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Aldubb, Dubmatix & Illbilly Hitec - "PON DI ROAD" (feat. Lengualerta & Longfingah)

“Easy (Death Is Nothing At All)” is a rare #bowsutra song inspired by a quote about death, from Henry ScottHolland (27 January 1847 - 17 March 1918), a Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford:

"Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened.
Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am cut of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well."

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@bananasutra lyrics:

[Verse 1]
Never think I’m gone mon chéri,
Hear me sing, feel the sweet sweet swoon,
Everything’s just as it always be,
I’ll be back with you real soon.

[Chorus]
Breathe easy, baby, easy,
Life means all it ever meant.
Breathe slowly, deep, easy peasy,
No need for grief, it’s love misspent.

[Verse 2]
Hear me whisper your name, darling
Sing it just the way we would.
Death don’t need no solemn crying,
Let it breathe just like it should.

[Chorus]
Breathe easy, baby, easy,
Life means all it ever meant.
Breathe slowly, deep, easy peasy,
No need for grief, it’s love misspent.

[Bridge]
Please laugh like nobody is watching 
Smile when you think of me.
Nothing can ever kill our loving, 
We’re as near as near can be.

[Verse 3]
I am right here, feel me singing,
Forever flying in time,
Life’s a wild trip, never-ending,
Dancing with the rhythm and rhyme.

[Chorus]
I’m easy, oh, I’m easy,
There’s no shadow, there’s no gloom.
Breathe with me, let me make it easy,
I’m right here with you, watch us bloom

[Outro]
Oh, it’s easy… easy peasy…
All is well, my dear, mon chéri…

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[06] Easy (Death Is Nothing At All) • BOWsutra Poetry is the Bridge Indie DUB

Earl Zero - Please Officer

Mermaid (feat Elenna Canlas)

Are you happy - SHANTI D & FABASSTONE - DUB INVADERS

featured on the 2008 release 
Roots garden records
“Showcase Part 1”

( issued on 12" vinyl and digital download)

Produced and mixed by Nick Manasseh
featuring: Johnny Osbourne, Chezidek
Bob Skeng and Dark Angel

Catalogue number RGR:SC001

Tracks 1 & 2

Bob Skeng’s first recording with Nick Manasseh was the now legendary “Education” on RIZ records in 1991. Some 17 years on, Bob returns to deliver one of the deepest and most heartfelt vocals to emerge from the Manasseh studio since the smash hit “Be Grateful”.

Bob Skeng - "The Lion" / Manasseh - "Version A Deh Principle"

8. Monty Alexander - Running Away

“Black Roots”, the eponymously named debut album, was originally released in 1983 on Kick Records, by which time the band was established as one of the UK's leading live acts with a strong repertoire of socially aware songs reflecting the issues of the day. When it came to their first album, they chose eight of their strongest tracks and assembled what was to become one of the classic British reggae albums of the decade.

Featuring 8 songs “The Father”, “Survival”, “Juvenile Delinquent”, “What Them 'A Do”, “Opportunity”, “Tribal War”, “Africa” and “Move On”, the album covers themes of social alienation, deprivation, repatriation, RastafarI, violence within the black community and ends, with the tale of a failing relationship. Three decades later, many of the songs are just as relevant and provide the perfect complement to their latest recordings.

It was re-issued Bristol Archive Records on vinyl in 22nd April 2013 to coincide with Record Store Day.  The release on vinyl was strictly limited to 500 copies worldwide. 400 copies were made be available for Record Store Day, 22nd April 2013, at participating retailers and feature a facsimile of the original sleeve, whilst 100 copies will be available directly from Bristol Archive Records and very select retailers and feature a unique handmade screen printed sleeve as well as being individually numbered, a very special edition.

This was the first time that this album was available on vinyl for twenty-five years and demand outstripped supply.

This release was made available by Nubian Records on digital platforms. Here is an opportunity to stream or download either this song or the full album that is still in great demand from old and new fans alike.

Black Roots

Opportunity

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Granular Meets J Dubby at Echo Mountain to produce the vibrations of J dubular. The union and resulting journey is not one of ascension or descent, but about how to sonically (and scenically) navigate the terrain. J Dubby’s drums and Granular’s bass establish the foundational “riddim” of their travels as the duo takes us spelunking through caverns of reverb haunted by flocks of bats screeching ambient white noise. The splash of metallic puddles resonates in the space between our ears and drones in the ether of our mind’s eye. And just as one becomes disoriented by the soundscapes within Echo Mountain, people all over the world join hands as J Dubby’s righteous organ propels the locomotion of a “Dub Train.” In these moments of resolution we are reminded that our tour guides are not the first to traverse the crags of Echo Mountain, yet in their voyages they have found new paths through a rich tradition mapped by dub explorers.

Mermaid (feat Elenna Canlas)

Jdubular

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