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Got a tape or something?
I would be pleased to listen to your music.
Where are you from by the way?

I'm pleased you're interested in listening to it. Well, we recorded ten songs last summer right into the mountains, the Alps, not so far from Italia,in France. Right now I'm in Montreal till july and the recording should arrive in a few days there. The friend who did record and mix our songs is already involved as a drummer in the french pop-reggae band Sinsemilia, and he didn't have a real experience as a mixing engineer.
All that stuff is not professionnal, most of us are not technically amazing but there was such a good feeling when we played in the chalet.. They recently recorded a horn section on 6 songs, I don't even know what it is going to be like ! I hope it will stay roots... That's the track list ;
Rwanda / Fulfilling Light / People down / Mother music / Celestial Jerusalem / Shatan / Feel strong / We're not strangers / Josianne / Accept to be a man
Of course I have a french accent while singing in english, but I tried to work my lyrics so that it could reflect my thought, in a spiritual way.
The "album" is called "Love heights", and we're printing 200 ones for the moment and just for friends.
I promise that as soon as I get the recording here in Montreal I'll send the content to you by e-mail, and later if you like it, you can command one with the cover.
Thanks for lending your hear

200 hundred copies!
That's very roots! An instant rarity!
Consider it already ordered.
Well I don't play in a band; in fact, I can't play at all. So how can I pay you pack?
Do you know an italian reggae/dub band called Almamegretta? They are - or were? they may have even split, don't really know - very good albeit almost unheard of abroad: I would be pleased to make a copy of it and send it to you, if you're interested in it. You may send your address to my e-mail if you don't want tell everybody.

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Hugh Mundell is one of the greatest musician ever lived. He was, he is and he will forever be. Don't think that only old people listen to him. So don't consider yourself as old, when you love the old days. You know as i started listen to reggae music, I was crazy about that 70S until mid 80s stuff. But I also learned to love the modern roots and dancehall sound. It is also part of the jamaican music scene. It doesn't matter if roots, dancehall or lovers rock. As long as it is conscious music it's good. I don't like it when them people trying to be cool like Vybz Kartel or Elephant Man.

To get back to the point. I am very sorry that Hugh Mundell really never entered international stardom. He died too young. Sometimes I imagine how it would be if he would be still alive. What kind of records would he record? Which artists would he promote? How famous he would become?

Essential Hugh Mudell LP - "Africa Must Be Free By 1983" - on Augustus Pablo's Message label. Sublime roots music!

Also the great "Mundell" LP. Recorded with the wonderful roots radics in the legendery channel one studio.

Oh yeah really great stuff. If you listen to some of junior reid or yami bolo early stuff, you can hear similarities. He was influential to many musician.

It's been a long time since I love his peculiar plaintive voice. On the Trojan Roots Boxset is an amazing song from vernon buckley, singer of the maytones, "save us jah", and I loved this voice, it reminded me of mundell. Do you know if there are other songs from the same recording session or other singers with that same spirit ? I know Lacksey Castell but I don't love it so much.
Maybe am I wrong, but haven't Jah Cure's voice something from Mundell's ?

Even if you have the LP's don't miss out on the following singles as they all have essential dub version sides.

Africans Must Be Free (Pablo International)
Don't Stay Away Too Long (Rockers)
Book Of Life (Rockers)
Let's All Unite (Rockers International)
My Mind (Rockers)
Jah Says The Time Has Come (Message)
One Jah One Aim And Destiny (Rockers International)
Jah Fire Will Be Burning (Fat Man)