Liberation

“Liberation” calls back to a culture and time period of Jamaican music that changed lives.

In the 70’s, roots reggae artists sang songs of black pride, spirituality, resistance, and resilience behind sound beds of booming bass, steady drums, and blaring organs on analog tape. With “Liberation”, we carefully and meticulously took the time to recreate this process step by step, down to running each and every stem through a 24-track Studer A-827. This pack was created by producer Matthew Smyth playing organ, piano, Wurlitzer, melodica and trombone, Keith “Kikah” Jackson playing drums and percussion, Nick Braham on electric bass and saxophone, and John Smyth on guitar/mixing and mastering. Engineered by Oliver Straus at Mission Sound in Brooklyn NY and Justin Miller at Milky the Studio in Philadelphia, PA.