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Artist:	WAREIKA HILL SOUNDS
Title:	One People
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 021EP

Calvin Bubbles Cameron is the veteran trombonist of Tommy McCook's Supersonics, Count Ossie's Mystic Revelation, The Light Of Saba, and The Skatalites. Since the old days, he has resided above the headquarters of The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari, in the Wareika Hill district of Kingston, Jamaica. This lineage is perfectly expressed for 2004 by these cuts. The uptempo A-side should rock any dancefloor to pieces, reggae or not, with full, bones-heavy horns, swirling organ and blood and fire nyabinghi drumming; and it comes with a storming dub. The B carries an instrumental, and another reminiscent of The Light Of Saba classic "Lambs Bread Collie."

Artist:	WAREIKA HILL SOUNDS
Title:	Coconut Head
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HJP 026EP

This four-tracker from Wareika Hill Sounds smashes open their "Coconut Head" rhythm with a heavy, heavy, heavy dub version featuring the original Light Of Saba drummers, thumping bass, chant-down-Babylon trombone -- blood on the dancefloor and up the walls. "Joseph C" is in a more laid-back grounation style, with beautiful bonework from WHS-leader Calvin Cameron evoking his years with Count Ossie. "Tears In Exile" is blood-and-fire again -- tough, scintillating roots percussion alongside a crowded brass section, and brilliant soloing from both. Finally, "They Say" is pure nyabinghi, upful and defiant.

Artist:	WAREIKA HILL SOUNDS
Title:	Wareika Hill Sounds
Label:	HONEST JON'S RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HJR 104CD

"'I was born and grew up in D'Aguilar Town, eastern Kingston, at the foot of Wareika Hill. I came up playing with Tommy McCook's Supersonics, and The Skatalites. I was the lead trombonist of Count Ossie's Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari. My first instrumental to hit was 'Lambs Bread Collie,' which I recorded with The Light Of Saba. These are my new recordings, blazing grounation roots reggae." -- Calvin Cameron. "This is 2007 dubwise roots reggae by Calvin Cameron from The Light Of Saba alongside his regular crew, and musicians like Deadly Headley Bennett, the original Saba drummers, and David Madden from the Black Ark -- with a special appearance by Tony Allen, architect of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat!"

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