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A TRIBUTE ALBUM “REMEMBERING JOSEPH HILL” TO BE RELEASED BY PENTHOUSE RECORDS IN EARLY 2017!

An ode to Joe BY HOWARD CAMPBELL—  Joseph Hill— REMEMBERING Joseph Hill, a tribute album to the influential lead singer of Culture, will be released in 2017, 40 years after the group created a stir with the song, Two Sevens Clash. Hill died in Berlin, Germany, in 2006 at age 57. Penthouse Records’ Donovan Germain, who produced the album, said he had a personal stake in the project. “Joseph Hill was one of my favorite artists, but you don’t hear a lot of Culture songs on the radio. I want to introduce him to a different generation,” Germain told the Jamaica Observer. Germain selected the songs, then approached several acts to record their favorites. Hill’s son, Kenyatta, covered Stop This Fussing And Fighting, while Queen Ifrica put her spin on the ominous Two Sevens Clash. A version … Read entire article »

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PRODUCER DONOVAN GERMAIN PREPARING TRIBUTE ALBUM ON JOSEPH HILL OF CULTURE!

BY RICHARD JOHNSON—-    Joseph ‘Culture’ Hill— PRODUCER and head of Penthouse Records, Donovan Germain, is on a mission to share the music of a bygone era with a younger generation. To this end, Germain has re-recorded the music of reggae legend Peter Tosh and singer Beres Hammond done by younger acts. He is currently in studio doing post-production work on the music of Joseph Hill, the late frontman of roots reggae group Culture. “I am always moved by my spirit and that is how I did the Peter Tosh and Beres projects. Since last September I have not been very active in the studio and so I decided that my first project for 2016 would be the re-recordings of some of the favorites from Joseph Hill. I just want to get the younger generation to … Read entire article »

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FORMER HEAD OF RAS RECORDS, GARY “DR. DREAD” HIMELFARB, TO RELEASE BOOK ON HIS DEALINGS WITH JAMAICAN ARTISTS AND CULTURE!

By Howard Campbell—  Gary ‘Dr Dread’ Himelfarb (left) and late reggae singer Gregory Isaacs on the cover of The Half That’s Never Been Told. Bottom: Bunny Wailer– FOR almost 30 years, Gary Himelfarb negotiated countless deals with Jamaican artists as principal of RAS Records, one of the largest distributors of reggae music during the 1980s and 1990s. Popularly known as Dr Dread, Himelfarb revisits his ties with Jamaica, its culture and some of reggae’s most successful artists in The Half That’s Never Been Told, a book scheduled for release on March 3, 2015 by Akashic Books. The 59-year-old Himelfarb made RAS one of the top independent companies in the world, with a catalogue containing albums by major acts such as Black Uhuru, Bunny Wailer, Culture, Israel Vibration, Yellowman, Gregory Isaacs and Freddie McGregor. Some of the … Read entire article »

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