MEREDITH… a bit too much computers in the music… LAST year when bass player Chris Meredith decided on a return to music production he wanted his comeback project to reflect the sound that inspired him as a youth — stripped-down roots-reggae. While listening to a number of 1970s ‘rhythms’, he found one particularly appealing. “Is a old Bunny Lee beat wid two bass part, an’ wi actually play the second part. When wi start play it, everybody get “excited”, he recalled. The result of that ‘exciting’ jam is the Positive, a beat driven by songs from a number of old school and emerging roots acts such as Big Youth, Sangie Davis, Linval Thompson, Johnny Clarke, Jah9, Jesse Royal, and Brian Gold. Meredith played bass on the track accompanied by veteran musicians Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith (guitar), … Read entire article »