Roots Tonic: Roots Tonic Meets Bill Laswell on CD
Roots Tonic Meets Bill Laswell
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
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- Label:
- Roir
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2006
- Item number:
- 4874500
- UPC/EAN:
- 0053436829721
- Release date:
- 9.5.2006
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You may have already heard Roots Tonic. In fact, you may love Roots Tonic and not even know it. Roots Tonic is Hasidic reggae superstar Matisyahu's backing band. Matisyahu's star has risen dramatically in this past year, culminating in the recent release of Youth on Sony / Epic (currently #4 on Billboard's Top 200) and the certification of Live at Stubbs as a Gold Record. One cannot underestimate the importance of Roots Tonic to Matisyahu's success. Roots Tonic bassist Josh Werner co-writes many of Matisyahu's songs, and Roots Tonic brings those songs to stage, to record and to life, making them pop with the drama and dynamics you'll hear on this album. It is no coincidence that world class bassist and producer Bill Laswell is involved in this project. For one, it is Laswell who produced Matisyahu's Youth. Laswell, the world music genre-fusing genius, has worked with so many notable artists: Mick Jagger, Afrika Bambaataa, Yoko Ono, Brian Eno, Fela Kuti, John Zorn, Peter Gabriel, George Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Iggy Pop,...
Reviews
A. Koch in Musikexpress 8/06: "Eine selten funky Variante von Dub und das Album einer der tightesten Bands seit Booker T. & The MGs."Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Road To Axum
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2 Concrete Sunrise
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3 Akademikus Du Umbeigu
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4 JD3
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5 Employees Must Wash Your Hands
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6 Instrument Of The Trinity
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7 Healing Of The Nations
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8 Clean Escape (The Crew Is Here)
