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Throwback Thursdays: Augustus Pablo at Japansplash 1986
June 20, 2013
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Words by Kieran Meadows—
Friday marks what would have been the late Horace Swaby’s 59th birthday. Swaby — better known as Augustus Pablo – was the legendary Jamaican reggae keyboardist and dub producer whose name is practically synonymous with the instrument he popularized the use of in reggae music in the 1970s: the melodica.
AUDIO: Addis Pablo &The Suns of Dub, “Selassie Souljahz (Vocal Dub)”
April 23, 2013
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
Produced by the Bay Area’s DJ I-Vier, “Selassie Souljahz” is one of the tuffest reggae tunes to come across our desk so far this year. The conscious reggae posse cut features Chronixx, Protoje and Kabaka Pyramid longside Sizzla over a heavyweight, hip-hop influenced riddim. Melodica player and up-and-coming reggae force Addis Pablo, son of the late Augustus Pablo, and his group Suns of Dub have reworked the song five times over for an upcoming EP due out next month on I-Vier’s Royal Order label.
Throwback Photo: Augustus Pablo Meets The Twin Towers Downtown
April 11, 2013
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Words by Jesse Serwer, Photo by Ted Bafaloukos—
Via the excellent Dirty Old New York City Facebook page comes this gem of a photo depicting the late Augustus Pablo and friends, on New York’s West Side Highway, with the World Trade Center in the background. The lights from the then-brand-new Twin Towers flickering behind Pablo in the early evening create an effect that is nothing short of ghostly. It truly captures a moment in time that is New York in the mid ’70s—when you could pose on one of the city’s main highways, with no cars in sight!
Visual Culture: Selections From The ‘World-A-Reggae’ Poster Art Show
September 19, 2012
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
In January, we told you about the so-called First International Reggae Poster Contest organized by US-based, Jamaica-born poster artist Michael Thompson and Greece’s Maria Papaefstathiou The contest, celebrating Jamaica and reggae music’s rich tradition of poster art, received 1142 entries by 678 designers from 80 countries, the best of which are set to appear in World-A-Reggae: The 100 Best Entries from the First International Reggae Poster Contest, opening Sunday, Sept. 30 at the National Gallery of Jamaica. Have an undying passion for reggae-inspired posters but can’t make it to Kingston before the show wraps Nov. 20? See all 100 selected posters here.
