The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - GrounationLike Sun Ras Arkestra and John Coltrane are to jazz, the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari are to reggae the ultimate expression of roots music and Rastafarian ideology in reggae music, music functioning at a high level of spiritual consciousness combined with an equally avant garde and forward looking approach to sound. The groups stunning, unique and groundbreaking 1973 album, Grounation, a mighty conceptual triple album (the first ever reggae triple)

'The Blossom Filled Streets' (Domino/Drag City 2000)

As a founding member of Danity Kane

this is the first track to be made available from their new double album ‘When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings’

a place where pop music can be as voracious as it wants to be

This selection spans the early 70s up until the mid-1980s

subjecting it to discontinuity

Label founder Ivo Watts-Russell goes further

Memphis was officially declared 'Home of the Blues' by an act of Congress

Willy Vlautin (guitars

To that end

We grievedåÊfor a country and an ideal we never thought would die

The track later resurfaced as the B-side to their single Baby