Category Archives: 2024

GROUNDATION announces the release of DUB ROCK!

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Over 25 years of groundbreaking music have cemented GROUNDATION’s international status as keepers of the flame of conscious reggae music. With ten studio albums and consistent touring to over 35 countries on five continents, GROUNDATION continues to present its music around the globe. I am sending this email to announce their new release for July […]

Don Grant – Happy Song

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Don Grant is a Jamaican Composer, Singer, Songwriter, and Multi-Instrumentalist. He has toured, recorded, performed, and collaborated with many artists and musicians internationally, including renowned reggae dub songwriter and producer Lee Scratch Perry. Don’s compositions include vocal and instrumental Caribbean Island Music and upbeat, energizing Jamaican Reggae selections. “I love playing the bass guitar, one […]

Lavender Fields – Little Thing Called Love

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Lavender Fields is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer based in Brooklyn. Her captivating genre-bending live electronica experience is created as she fuses analog hardware with the innovations of electronic music guided by the intention to heal. With a unique cultural background and her own stories of resilience, compassion is the foundation of her art. […]

Azato – Bridges Not Walls

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Photography by: Aisea Taimani Azato is a singer/songwriter/producer, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, and roots reggae artist from Oʻahu Hawaiʻi. Azato’s music is spiritual and conscious and recorded live with all real instruments; nothing is programmed. Brady “Azato” Giusta has been performing, recording, and touring with Local, National, and International bands for more than 25 years. He has […]

Esther Sings aka Esther Antoine

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Esther Sings aka Esther Antoine Esther Sings, born Esther Antoine in the Caribbean Country of St. Lucia, is a singer/songwriter/author/entrepreneur/recording artiste who has lived in New York for the past twenty years. In her homeland, St. Lucia, Esther Sings started singing at the age of eight. She was heavily influenced by her father, Gregory ‘Sewaynis’ […]

Azato – When We Gonna Start? feat. Jonah Jaxon

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Azato When We Gonna Start? feat. Jonah Jaxon Photography by: Aisea Taimani Jonah Jaxon and Azato run non-profits with at-risk teens focusing on the arts, life skills, and personal/spiritual development in the inner-city community of Kalihi/Honolulu, Hawai’i. I have had the honor of working with Inner-city teenagers over the last 25-plus years in both San Diego and […]

Sid Bucknor – Willow Tree (Dub) feat. Black Uhuru

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Sid Bucknor Willow Tree (Dub) Sid Bucknor, known by many names including Siddy, Syd, Sidney, and Norman Bucknor, stands as a monumental figure in the realm of Jamaican music, a true maestro who sculpted the sonic landscapes of Ska, Rocksteady, and Reggae. His journey through the world of music is a tale of innovation, passion, […]