Luciano - The Answer (Oneness Records)

The resulting album is pure German kraftsmanship, and a joy to listen to from start to finish. The tracklist includes duets with Iba Mahr ('The Victory'), Jesse Royal (opener 'The Music') and Jahcoustix (closing track 'Stronger'), but our personal favorite was 'Use Jah Words', a combination tune with Runkus (a song that in its original version, without Runkus, already dates back to 2007 and was Luciano's version over the Oneness riddim).

Elsewhere the gentlemen of Oneness recycled some of their more recent riddim creations, like for the aforementioned duet with Jesse Royal, 'The Music', a version over the Bambu riddim we still remembered from Lutan Fyah's 'Gone Too Far' or Mark Wonder & Crosby's 'Voyages Across The Sea' and of course Ras Muhamad's 'Bambu Keras', 'Take Me To The Place' (Mark Wonder's 'Voices Of The People', Lutan Fyah's 'She Got Stoned'), 'Build A Better Land' (Mark Wonder's 'Nubian Glory', 'I Wonder' (Lutan Fyah's 'Strange Things'), and finally 'The Answer', Luciano's answer to Mark Wonder's 'Brand New Me'.

In any case, a Luciano in top form in combination with Oneness Records, results in pure reggae gold... Rewind and come again!