Akae Beka - Beauty For Ashes LP
SKU: IGBZRLP004The LP's from this
delivery arrived with small damage to the upper spine, therefore
the reduced price.
Description:
Akae
Beka's inimitable style of rich, deep, multi-layered songwriting,
uncompromising devotion to RasTafari and soulful healing melodies
developed over decades performing with St. Croix based band Midnite
and countless recordings. At the point of his untimely passing in
2019, he had released over 70LP's. He is without a doubt one of the
most prolific reggae artists ever known.
The stellar production trinity that is Zion I Kings have been
involved collectively and individually in creating some of the most
highly regarded contributions to the vast Akae Beka catalogue.
Beauty For Ashes was not only a contender for the best reggae album
of 2014, it was the most popular, most played, and most purchased
reggae album of the year according to iTunes. A monumental
achievement for undiluted, uncompromising RasTafari roots reggae
music this side of the millennium. Two of the LP’s tracks, Weather
the Storm and Same I Ah One, have been catapulted into global
notoriety in part due to the viral success of the YouTube video of
the ‘Dub in the Rainforest’ session organised in St. Croix by Tippy
I in 2014. The video offered an unparalleled audio visual insight
of the powerful, captivating, energy of Vaughn Benjamin, Pressure
Buss Pipe, Ras Batch, and many of the bredrin and sisterin of St.
Croix rallying around the I Grade Dub living dub
experience.
Following 8 years of
anxious anticipation, for the countless Akae Beka fans that are
also vinyl connoisseurs, this LP is now being released on as a 12"
vinyl LP courtesy of Before Zero Records. This offers the listener
not only the chance to enjoy this LP in an analogue form, but also
the chance to hold the artwork as a 12" square masterpiece, created
by the hands of Ras Marcus, the artist who gave the powerful visual
presence that became synonymous to much of the I Grade / Akae Beka
works over the years.
Format &
package: LP
Record label: Before Zero Records
Year of release: 2022 (reissued from
2014)
Tracks:
A1 A Reminder
A2 When Jah Arise
A3 Same Boat We
A4 Beauty For Ashes
A5 Betterment Mouth
B1 Same I Ah One
B2 Holy Mountain
B3 All I's On You
B4 Weather The Storm
B5 A Healing
Specification | Description |
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Weight | 0,4 Kg |