VA - Don't Give Up Your Culture (CD)

„Don’t Give Up Your Culture“ is the ninth release by Moll-Selekta - an essential Roots-sampler with many brilliant, on CD/LP previously unreleased tracks by The Mighty Diamonds, Johnny Clarke, Jacob Miller, Horace Andy, Wayne Jarrett, Linval Thompson and Rod Taylor. By larger parts a collection of „sweet high voices of Jamaica“, especially characterised by the totally unknown Flick Wilson with his exceptional high falsetto. Above all his exiting and outstanding titel-track with its Roots & Culture-lyrics is a perfect example for the religious and political statements of the other classical Roots-singers on this collection. Beside The Aggrovators and Roots Radics, probably the most important backing bands in those days, most of the tracks where recorded with the rather unknown Ring Craft Posse whose line up also included the essence of Jamaicas studio musicians. Amongst others, Sly & Robbie, Lloyd Parks, Ansel Collins, Winston Wright, Willie Lindo and the horn section with Dean Fraser, Bobby Ellis and Ronald Robinson took part.
The producer of most of the tracks was the brother of Tappa Zuckie, „Blackbeard“ Sinclair, Bunny Lee‘s right hand for many years, meanwhile the owner of the old King Tubby studio. The rest of the songs was produced by King Tubby himself who also mixed some others. Recordings took place at Channel One, King Tubby’s and Sinclairs own Mr. Tipsy studio in Kingston, Jamaica, between 1972 and 1984, the most important and exiting years of Reggae.