9. Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of RastafariGrounation
It’s an album that I think of when I think of my dad. My dad was a Rasta, or had that in his belief, and that was music I had around me. That was my first exposure to Nyabinghi music which is music from the Rasta community. The heavy drums, the heartbeat drums. That’s music that’s been around me since I was quite small. It’s an album where I think of my dad and I think of home, I get into a state of meditation and reasoning. In Sons Of Kemet, it’s an album we all had an affinity with and often we’d go into the Nyabinghi thing, the drums and horns. Listening to that music influenced the way that I perform and in that band everyone – Shabaka, Eddie, Tom – had the same understanding of that album as a reference point. So yeah, it was yes. Grounation is just one of those albums to me. It’s a part of my musical identity.
