Black Uhuru with Sly and Robbie

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Black Uhuru with Sly and Robbie Search Filed under: MUSIC ON DVD— cultclash @ Tue 16 May 2006 z My Friends DUBBIN IT LIVE { FLICKHEAD { Turner Classic Movies { Tribute To Lucio Fulci Reviewed by Winslow Leach { Everything Tarantino { VH-1/IFilm's Web Junk Running Time: Approx 75 { WFMU Freeform Radio Minutes { Video Screams { In the 80s THE REVIEW: Both Black { Fistful Of Leone Uhuru and Sly and Robbie are { New Wave Outpost legends in Reggae music. { EMVG { Ban 1 Productions { Xploited Cinema As well as making their own { Rhino Records reggae music and working with { BECK Official Site other bands of the genre, Sly { Steely Dan Official Site and Robbie have produced { GEEKDROME music acts like Bob Dylan, { Synapse Films Mick Jagger, the Rolling { The Ideal Copy Stones, Serge Gainsbourg, { Blue Underground Sting, Doug E. Fresh, Carlos { Power Records Plaza Santana, Sinead O’Connor { Grindhouse Film Festival among many others. Drummer { Radio Nigel Lowell Dunbar (nicknamed Sly { Alex Cox Official Site after one of his favorite { Senses of Cinema musicians, Sly Stone) and { WDOA Freeform Radio Robbie Shakespeare began playing together in the mid 70s on the Jamaican { HK FLIX music scene. They were most influential in changing the popular styles of { Moriarty's DVD Shelf reggae rhythm. They introduced a harder edged beat called “Rockers” then { Phantompalooza they brought the “rub a dub” sound into the genre. Sly and Robbie were also { Video Watchdog two of the first guys to utilize computers for helping music production in the { No Shame Films mid 1980s. { Sazuma Trading

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{ Elite Entertainment { Pixar Studios News { BCI Eclipse The band Black Uhuru began as simply “Uhuru” (a Swahili word meaning { Eclectic DVD freedom). The first lineup of the group was Garth Dennis, Derrick “Duckie” { Aint It Cool News Simpson and Don Carlos. The band had a hit in the late 70s with their album { Internet Movie Database Love Crisis. In 1979, the band changed their line up and added Sandra { Film Score Monthly “Puma” Jones (an American) and Sly and Robbie were producing as well as Online added as bass and drums. The albums Showcase, Sinsemilla, Red, Chill { DePalma ala Mod Out, The Dub Factor and their award winning album Anthem followed. In the { Dork De Jour early 80s Black Uhuru toured with bands like The Police and The Rolling { Cinema Strikes Back Stones. Throughout the 80s and 90s, they continued to create some of the { Dark Sky Films coolest reggae to come from Jamaica. { 24 Lies A Second { Music Video Distributors { Enzo G. Castellari Being a huge fan of both these groups made watching this new DVD an { Movie Gold Mine especially exciting experience for me. Black Uhuru’s latest lineup featuring { WE FUNK Radio Andrew Bees (Lead Vocals), Duckie Simpson (Vocals, Lead Vocals on What { Cult Clash on MYSPACE Is Life and Queen Kay (Vocals) come together once again with their friends { Antonio Margheriti Sly and Robbie to burn up the stage with an island sound that their longt ime { The Quentin Tarantino fans will surely love. The concert was recorded live at the end of the Paled Archives Festival in Nyon, Switzerland in July 2001. It looks and sounds spec tacular! { The Swan Archives Let Jah Rock Your Soul with this classic performance from these legends of { Alibris Books reggae! { Facets Multimedia { Brian DePalma Special Bonus DVD Feature: Alternative Camera Angles on Select Songs! z z Archives: THE DVD { May 2006 REGION: 0 { April 2006 STUDIO: Music Video Distributors { March 2006 FILM SPECS: Presented in Full Screen. Color. { February 2006 AUDIO: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Turn this up on your home { January 2006 theater system! IRIE! { December 2005 { November 2005 { TRACK LISTING: 1. PARTY NEXT DOOR - 2. WHAT IS LIFE - 3. HERE October 2005 z Meta: COMES BLACK UHURU - 4. I LOVE KING SELASSIE - 5. BULL IN THE { PEN - 6. WORLD IS AFRICA - 7. SOLIDARITY - 8. SINSEMILLA - 9. Login { GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER. RSS { CommentsRSS BUY DUBBIN IT LIVE ON DVD! —–

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