Bless up! Temos a honra de apresentar esta grande canção que leva o nome do álbum PRAISE H.I.M.  Fikir Amlak﻿ & UniRidd Project uma grande meditação para um e para todos. bendito amor que Jah siga nos guiando.
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Bless up! We are honored to present this great song that brings the album name PRAISE HIM - Fikir Amlak & UniRidd UniRidd Project a great meditation to One And For All. blessed love Jah keep guide.

Bringing Peace - Riddim Rafhari Production
Vozes - Fikir Amlak 
Guitars - Pedro Lima - Unidade 76
Mix e Master - Rafael Paz Curvelo - Unidade 76

Praise H.I.M. - Fikir Amlak & UniRidd Project [E.P. Praise HIM]

Wayne Jarrett - Satta Dread  Dub

Martin Campbell - Richman

Black Uhuru "Rent Man"/'Rent Board" (DEB Music)

Black Uhuru "Leaving To Zion" [Taxi] 12"

Prince Alla - Reason

Fred Locks - Mission For The King

Ijahman Levi - Jah Heavy Load (super rare killer version + dub)

This album was first released in 1993 on Vinyl, Cassette and CD and it is now to be reissued as part of the programme by Nubian Records to make available all of Black Roots’ back catalogue on digital platforms.  ‘With Friends’ will be out on 26th April 2019.  It is the last full album recorded by the band before activity ceased in the mid-90s for several years in their 40 years long career.  The next full album to be recorded by the band was On the Ground that released in 2012 in collaboration with Sugar Shack Records.

Black Roots had talked on occasion of inviting other artists to perform some of their classic songs and the circumstances of the band at this time lent themselves to work up such a project.  And so, Dub Judah, BB Seaton, Trevor Dixon and Mikey Forbes, all London based artists, were approached to perform on this album.  

Dub Judah a very respected vocalist, musician, live performer and producer working through his own Dub Jockey record label was asked to and agreed to produce the album.  He was given the key task of breathing new life into these songs and used his versatile musical skills to good effect changing the feel of the rhythm section.  The recordings play and feel different even though they are all classic Black Roots songs.  He added his vocals to two massive songs ‘What Them a Do’ and ‘Tribal War’.  The lyrical content of these blend with his personal beliefs reflecting where he was at spiritually and he sang them with heart.  You can hear it when you listen back to these two songs.

Harris Lloyd "B.B." Seaton, also known as "Bibby", a Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, and record producer who was a member of The Gaylads, The Astronauts, Conscious Minds, and The Messengers, took on the task of laying vocals on ‘Release the Food’ and ‘Opportunity’ giving these new depth and insightfulness.

Trevor Dixon, a lovers rock singer best known for singing on ‘Woman of Moods’ that was first released in 1988 on Groove & a Quarter Records, sang ‘Move On’ and ‘Let It Be Me’, two ballads that suited his smooth land silky vocal style.

And Charles Bryan aka Delroy Ogilvie, one of the original front men with Black Roots, came back to do a cameo performance on ‘Chanting for Freedom’ punching out the lyrics in his own inimitable style with Mikey Forbes, another guest reggae singer doing a great version on ‘Confusion’.
The other songs featured on this album and given the treatment by Kondwani Ngozi and Errol Brown, the remaining vocalists with Black Roots at this time, are ‘Juvenile Delinquent’. ‘Survival’, ‘Africa’ and ‘The Father’.

And so was born ‘With Friends’.  The final curtain on the first part of Black Roots’ long and continuing musical career.

With Friends

What Them a Do

Buy @ Bandcamp

What Them a Do featuring Dub Judah

“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

Tribal War

Introducing the next in-line release from the Forward Bound series with another production - featuring the artist Ras Teo  alongside Ashanti Selah. This one manages to encapsulate the vibes of yet an all-time Abyssinians favourite which makes reference to a very iconic narrative of 'Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego' and their mystical journey through the fiery furnace.

The production comes complete on a 7" Vinyl press with a full vocal and dub version to give it the fullest of transitioning from the '70s right up to the present day; with added sax features led by one of the best renowned musicians in the UK Dub scene, Digistep (from the highly-respected, Bristol duo - Dubkasm). This release will surely live up to what it sets to deliver in its full entirety!

Vocals performed by Ras Teo AKA Jah Menelik
"Originally written by L. Manning & Performed by 'The Abyssinians'*

Sax performed by Digistep (B. Glass)

Produced by Ras Teo & Ashanti Selah for Forward Bound records
Mixed & Arranged by Ashanti Selah @ Selah Dub Studio, UK

Artwork by Ras Elijah Tafari

Prince Alla - Reason

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