Horace Andy and Sly & Robbie - Livin' It UpIn early 2006, TABOU1 producer Guillaume Bougard booked Harry J Studio for a week to record 12 new songs by Horace Andy following the highly successful Mek It Bun released a couple of years before To back such a legendary artist, TABOU1 asked Sly & Robbie and the Revolutionaries (Channel One studio band in the late 70's) to work the "old school" way: all musicians would play live, together and in one take, as opposed to recording their parts

the Mighty Diamonds into a sophisticated blend of soul

arguably (as Elizabeth Fraser never published the lyrics) after the opening line of Cocteau Twins ‘Cherry-Coloured Funk’

David Asher Brook and Jonathan Harkham’s 2004 album of traditional Chasidic melodies and liturgical pieces

Bass guitarist Zak Sally plays an Optigan on some tracks

and I think that shows in the string section-y bits

Available on limited edition clear vinyl

amalgamating with the sonic timbre of the surrounding time

Originally released on the forward-thinking Homestead Records in 1985

The album Vertigo of Flaws was recorded in Brooklyn

” and “fragile

The Power of the Heart is a tribute to Reed’s freedom of expression with covers spanning his groundbreaking years with the Velvets into his majesYc solo career

and his years at Studio One