The Revolutionaries

The Revolutionaries is a group of Reggae installed with the studio of the producer OJ OJ Hoo Kim with Chanel One during the Seventies. It is composed of the pair Sly Dunbar (battery) and Robbie Shakespeare (low). These two insufflate a style rockers with the formation. It was created in 1975 succeeding the group Skin, Flesh and Bones. In addition to Sly and Robbie, it includes/understands Betram " Ranchie" McLean or Radcliffe " Dougie" Bryan with the Guitar, Ossie Hibbert, Errol " Tarzan" Nelson, Robert Lyn or Ansel Hakes with the keyboards, Uziah " Count Sticky" Thompson and Christmas " Scully" Simms with the percussions and a section coppers made up of Tommy McCook with the Saxophone tenor, Hermann Marquis with the Saxophone viola, Bobby Ellis with the Trompette and Vin Gordon with the Trombone.

The name of the group reflects the situation of the company jamaïcaine at that time. PNP of Michael Manley is with the capacity and restores the diplomatic relations with Cuba. The government supports without condition the deployment of the cuban troops in Angola to support MPLA. Thus, Revolutionaries on their album Revolutionaries Sounds , play the songs entitled Angola and Leftist (Gauchiste). The small pocket is illustrated by a portrait of Che Guevara. But their name undoubtedly reflects even more their frame of mind with respect to the music jamaïcaine, namely the will to transform it. Rhythmic the rockers invented by Sly and Robbie changed the balancing of the Dub but also the Reggae roots.

The group dominated end of the year 70 by recording many LP of dub and as a backing band of B.B. Seaton, Black Uhuru, Culture, Prince Alla, Leroy Smart, Gregory Isaacs, John Holt, Heptones, I Roy, Tappa Zukie, Trinity, U-Brown, Errol Scorcher, Serge Gainsbourg and so much of others.

Discography

  1. Chanel One Revisited Dub - 1995 (Reggae Retro Records)

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