Aswad

[Morris]

Can anyone tell me what this album is like.

http://www.roots-archives.com/release/3549

Also, please could you recommend any other Aswad albums


Thanks

Morris

[benjamin]

Hi morris, this album is really excellent. But it is totally instrumental, there are no voices. For me their best album is the first one "aswad", their live performance on "live and direct" is also a classical album, with the famous and nearly philosophical sentence ...
"do you know what live and direct means ? It means live and direct"
cheers

[Christian]

Yes, old dub, but better albums are:

new chapter
not satisfied
rebel souls
to the top
live & direct

greetz

[Fabroots]

Aswad "aswad", the best too for me, the rest is deceiving to my tastes, apart "showcase" (pretty same songs that "aswad") and "hulet (not bad)...

[glenn]

don't forget "New Chapter of Dub"

also the following 12" singles are a must have:

warrior charge/dub charge (grove/island)
rainbow culture/covenant dub (grove/island)
it's not our wish/stranger (grove)
pass the cup/pass the dub/love fire dub (cbs)
unsatisfied/oh jah dub (10" white label)
finger gun style/dub style (cbs)
ways of the lord/lords of the dub (cbs)

and not forgetting there collabrations, with artists such as Dennis Brown, Michael Prophet, Johnny Osbourne, Michael Palmer etc, all released on there own Simba Label.

[glenn]

and how can anyone forget the steppers classic

"Carry Us Beyond" - Human Cargo.

a little known fact but Human Cargo were the actual members of Aswad.

[arize_rootsman]

on the album of THE NEW CHAPTER OF DUB the song BAMMIE BLOW whats the one with words whats it called ?

[glenn]

it's called "Didn't Know At The Time"

regards

[Dhuffly]

-The 1st LP
-Rebel Souls
-New Chapter of Dub
-Live an Direc

-BBC Sessions!

[dubwize_or_otherwize]

aswads crucial albums which i think are

1 aswad
2 not satified
3 live and direct
4 rebel souls
5 too wicked and firesticks
6 new chapter and new chapter in dub