Livicated to the life and legacy of NELSON MANDELA.
JAH Light shone through this great man.

Taken from compilation OUTERNATIONAL ROOTS
from GREEN TONGUE STUDIO, Belgium.
Written, played and produced by Jah Rej. 

Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

FREEDOM SKA - Jah Rej

JAH REJ PRODUCTIONS:
'JOHN CROW' - Instrumental by: JAH REJ
Instradub of the title track from Donette Forte's 'Wilderness' album. circa 1990
Recorded on Ampex 1" 8 track (Bertha) mixed at Channel One UK.

Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

John Crow - Jah Rej

JAH REJ PRODUCTIONS:
'SEEN' - Dub by JAH REJ
Another track from Donette Forte's 'Wilderness' album circa 1990
Recorded on Ampex 1" - 8 Track - Music by Jah Rej - Lyrics Donette Forte.
Mixed at Channel One UK 
Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

'Seen' - Jah Re j

JAH REJ PRODUCTIONS:
'Readings from the Book of Life' - Dub Crusaders.
From the album: 'Universal Spirit Warrior'
Featuring Bongo Zebby on the Kete Drum and spoken voice.
(Zebby was at that time percussion player for Aqua Levi & The Roots Imention)
Recorded on Ampex 1" - 8 Track. Mixed by Jah Rej
Circa 1994
Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

'Readings from the Book of Life' - Jah Rej- Dub Crusaders (Full Length)

JAH REJ PRODUCTIONS:
'Beware The Vampire' - Dub by Jah Rej
Different mix from that featured on the 'Universal Spirit Warrior' album.
Recorded on Ampex 1" - 8 Track at Channel One UK
Circa 1994
Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

'Beware the Vampire' Alternative Dub - Jah rej

JAH REJ PRODUCTIONS:
'Save this World' - Lyric & Music by Jah Rej -  Vocal by Mene Man
7" Single release 2002 
(This song was written on the train from Newbury to Reading, whilst
on the way to studio for voicing session with Mene Man)
Recorded on Ampex 1" - 8 Track.
Mixed at Seventh Sense Studio by Jah Rej 
Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

'Save this world' - Mene Man

JAH REJ PRODUCTIONS:
'Quick March' - Instrumental by Jah Rej (as the Dub Crusaders)
Alternative version to that featured on 'Messages from the Seventh Sense' album.
Featuring: Dan Foster (AKA: Dan the Dan) on lead Guitar.
Recorded at Channel One UK & Seventh Sense Studios. Circa 2001
Mixed at Seventh Sense by Jah Rej.
Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

'Quick March' - (Heavy Metal) -Dub Crusaders

JAH REJ PRODUCTIONS:
'Rising' - Instrumental by Jah Rej as the Roots crusaders.
Taken from the album ;
'Messages from the Seventh Sense'
All Instruments Jah Rej except: Sax; Tim Hill, Trumpet: James Tollhurst
Recorded on Ampex 1" - 8 Track at Seventh Sense.
Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

'Rising' - Jah Rej - Roots Crusaders

JAH REJ PRODUCTIONS:
'YES I' - Dan the Dan.
Instrumental by Jah Rej, featuring the brilliant Dan Doster (AKA: Dan the Dan)
on the lead guitar. Franco (Gorgon) Agresta on the Piano.
Recorded at Channel One UK & Seventh Sense Studios on Ampex 1" - 8 Track.
Mixed at Seventh Sense by Jah Rej
Released as 'B side' on Jah Works 12" single JW027T (Still Available)
Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

'Yes I' - Jah Rej / Dan the Dan

JAH REJ PRODUCTIONS:
Tenement Man Dub - Jah Rej.
Dub version of 'Tenement Man' a song by Clark Innes, main man of Scottish
Reggae band ALBAROOT. (And one of the finest songwriters I have ever met)
The track is taken from the album 'Pick it up' (Only ever available on Jah Works pre-release CDR). 
The album was produced using classic old school Jamaican methods. Tracks being bounced between Ampex 8 track, Teak 4 Track (A340) and Ampex 2 Track.

Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

'Tenement Man Dub' - Jah Rej

JAH REJ PRODUCTIONS:
'Freedom pt 1' - Dub / Instrumental by Jah Rej as the Dub Crusaders.
From the album 'Universal Spirt Warrior.
Recorded on Ampex 1" - 8 Track at Channel One OK.
Circa 1993

Jah Works Music available via : www.hands2gether.webs.com 

'Freedom pt 1' - Jah Rej / Dub Crusaders

'Your Roots' is a song written by JAH REJ, 
featuring the wonderful voice of the late ( & Great) 
STEVEN SWANN of THE REVOLUTIONARY DUB WARRIORS. 
(Not forgetting DUB THE EARTH & RDF) 

This track is taken from the debut album from I MAN T entitled 'LIFE' 

This album is available exclusively from:
www.hands2gether.webs.com 

I MAN T & STEVE SWANN - 'Your Roots'

Teddy Dan (Jamaica/Ethiopia) live in concert with The Irie vibes Band (belgium) with
Jah rej (Jah Works) on the mix.
Recorded live @ 'Heroes in the Park', Eeklo, Belgium. 
August 2013.

Album available exclusively at:
www.hands2gether.webs.com 


TEDDY DAN & THE IRIE VIBES BAND 'Live ina Beljam' - Album Promo mix

From the CD 'Live ina Beljam'
Recorded Live @ 'heroes in the Park' Eeklo, Belgium.
Jah Rej (Jah Works) on the mix.

CD available exclusively at:
www.hands2gether.webs.com


'What you asking' - Teddy Dan & The Irie Vibes Band (Live)

I MAN T - 'LIFE' - Album Promo mix Promo mix

Unreleased Dub version to vocal by Izanjah ('Troddin')



Troddin DUB - Jah rej

Soon come from Green Tongue / Jah Works inna 12" steppers style.

Dubs and Specials available - contact:
hands.together@ymail.com 
or visit: www.hands2gether.webs.com


HORNSMAN COYOTE 'Where do we go' / I MAN T 'Survivors' + Dubs - Pre-release

A Musical tribute to two Great Masters !......livicated to the memory of Harold Keys. Jah Bless

Tribute To Harry Mudie & King Tubby

Have Some Faith Promo Mix

Livicated to the memory of John Mitchell. 
The track 'Foundation' was recorded circa 1990 at Channel one UK. It features John Mitchell on Lead guitar and and Vibraphone (Keys).

Foundation

The UK Roots scene is a spirited underground representation of Jamaican studio techniques as filtered through the cheap recording technology boom of the last two decades. In short it is generally a story of creative and intuitive use of studio equipment by often self educated recording engineers. Rej Forte has risen out of the UK scene as a master producer creating some of the most moving and lasting roots music ever produced in the UK.
Jah Rej’s productions do what real music truly should, transport the listener to a magical place. Using a range of vocalists and a dedicated group of session musicians he has refined his art. Rej's productions carry the weight and produce the magic.
The Jah Works label was set up by reggae obsessive Rej Forte in the depths of the Berkshire countryside in the late 1980’s. The label has gained a reputation for producing consistently high quality UK Reggae and Dub by the likes of Martin Campbell, Donette Forte, GT Moore (aka The Outsider), Hornsman Coyote, Princess Jewels, Teddy Dan, Albaroot, Ghetto Priest and Idren Natural to name but a few.
 Rej Forte's Jah Works label was one of the first of the new breed of UK dub / roots outfits to release deep spiritual roots music back in the late eighties which tore up roots dances up and down the UK back in the day. After more than two decades, the Jah Works label still produces original Roots Reggae & Dub music that is distinctive and unique, blending old school values with modern production techniques. The Jah Works Sound is big, atmospheric and full of 'old skool' vibes. Passion and creativity are the key elements reflected in the recording philosophy. Jah Works productions and especially Jah Rej’s blistering dub mixes have long been favourites amongst the top UK sound systems, particularly the legendary Jah Shaka.
Not a man for seeking the limelight, Rej is also a man of many masks. He is credited as the artist for a number of dubs, (including the ‘Dubs From Seventh Sense’ album), but is also the ‘Artist’ behind the name for the 90’s classic Dub Crusaders album entitled ‘Universal Spirit Warrior. He is often also the songwriter behind a number of underground Roots hits, including ‘Who Are You?’, ‘Dub Them’ and ‘Save this World’.
In the mid 90’s Rej built the Seventh Sense Studio based in Newbury, Berkshire and accumulated his studio musicians into the Seventh Sense Band. The studio is notable for its continued use of an 8-track Ampex ‘Reel-to-Reel’ tape machine (called ‘Bertha’) that has helped to provide a richness and depth to the Jah Works sound which is unachievable in the modern digital recording studio. Much of the Jah Works catalogue is mastered onto tape and ‘versions’ and ‘Dubplates’ are often mixed from there.
Jah Rej closed the Seventh Sense studio after 15 years when he relocated to Belgium in 2009. Merging forces with the Irie Vibes Band, together they built the GreenTongue Studio. Productions since then have included Hornman Coyote’s ‘Brass Roots’ LP, an artist compilation called ‘Outernational Roots’, I-Man T’s ‘Life’ album, and with a much anticipated Teddy Dan set on the way.
Jah Rej can be found performing under the Jah Works Outernational Sound System title. Jah Works Sound has been a regular staple and much needed organic roots and dub diet over the years. The Sound has performed at cornerstone UK venues and events such as Roots Garden, The Dub Club and The Rocket, and is currently laying down Dubplates in and around Belgium, France and Holland on a regular basis. In 2012, Jah Rej took Jah Works Sound System on tour in Mexico.
Rej is very much a ‘musician’s producer’ and has striven to keep Jah Works music as ‘live’ as possible. He is particularly loved by reggae instrumentalists and bands (his session musician list is too long to list!). He is much in demand as a ‘front-of-house’ mixer at live shows and he is a permanent fixture directing and mixing the Irie Vibes Band. Over the years he has mixed for a number of live acts, including Revolutionary Dub Warriors, Harare Dread,, Dub The Earth, Dreadless, and Seventh Sense at events such as Womad, Glastonbury, Irie Vibes Festival and many more.
After over 30 years inspiring, producing and forwarding Roots Reggae Music, it is somewhere between difficult and impossible to list the myriad of actions and achievements Rej has been involved with. Suffice to say ‘Jah Works Everytime, Seen!


Rej Forte

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