Matumbi - Point of View

It wasn't merely distance that made U.K. reggae bands so startlingly different from their Jamaican counterparts, but their approach. Far removed from the hot house atmosphere of Jamaica's singles driven market, where producers ruled like the Russian tsars of old, the U.K. scene was album orientated, band focused, and labels called the shots, not the producers. Thus Matumbi developed in their own unique fashion, produced themselves, and made their own music, instead of being sidelined onto the perpetual spinning mouse exercise wheel of session work. Read More