Spirit Revolution meets Sugardaddy - The Message (Self-published)

From its founding in 2003, Spirit Revolution has always set itself the goal of trying to create an authentic Jamaican reggae sound, only using live instrumentation; something they absolutely succeeded in with 'The Message', an album that never seems to have the intention to color outside the lines, but just for that reason becomes almost a blueprint of a classic reggae album. All classic elements, going from socio-critical and Rastafarian inspired songs like opener 'What A Thing', the topical 'Everyday' or ital living anthem 'Man A Rasta', over a traditional mama-tune ('Mama'), and a love tune like 'Natural Woman', stylistically alternating between pure roots, nyahbinghi (title track 'The Message') and dub (closing track 'Mr. Dubman', a dub version of 'Mr. Bigman'). Only for breakup tune 'My King', Spirit Revolution invited an extra vocal guest in the form of LaRegina, a singer-songwriter from Freiburg, Germany, with whom the band also recorded the soon to be released single 'Appetite'. Classic reggae album of the sort you only come across when you go digging through your record collection!