Roots and Righteous Riddim is the latest effort from music producer Richard Roache.
"This project is different from all the other rhythms I've worked on because it's taken from a differen.
Back in the day when the phonograph record was the main format for music reproduction, fans would pack record stores flipping through the racks for the latest releases.
While Sugar Pie DeSanto long ago made the musical declaration, "Down in the basement, that's where it's at,” and later the Ramones sang , “I don’t wanna go
'REGGAE Roots', a three-day event featuring Jamaican singer Jah'Mila Smith and the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada, starts tomorrow at Southam Hall in Ottawa.
Jah'Mila, who is based in H.
reggae, style of popular music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and quickly emerged as the country’s dominant music. By the 1970s it had become an international style that was particularly popular in Britain, the United States, and Africa. It was widely perceived as a voice of the oppressed. According to an early definition in The Dictionary of Jamaican English (1980), reggae is based on ska, an earlier form of Jamaican popular music, and employs a heavy four-beat rhythm driven by drums, bass guitar, electric guitar, and the “scraper,” a corrugated stick that is rubbed by a plain