Owen Gray - Dancing On The Beach - The Early Years 1960-1962Still going strong in 2023, pioneering Jamaican singer Owen Gray was one of the first local artists to get on record in the late 1950s and one of the first to top the local charts when they were introduced back in 1959. He was also the very first Jamaican popular vocalist to release an album comprising R&B and pop rather than the island's earlier indigenous music mento or calypso. "Owen Gray Sings" was a landmark release in the history of what became

the first to cover the real width and variety of Usher's career

in particular their cover of the Hall and Oates classic "I Can't Go For That" which has garnered nearly 4 million YouTube views

this is one deeply funky soundtrack

the intimate creed of the Agnus Dei or the powerful or the masterfully conceived double fugue of Quam olim Abrahae

new rhythms are not to be found in classical composition textbooks

Look me in the eyes and you will get the same feeling as when you hear and experience

Kreisler and Korngold to their beloved Europe by four emigrants from the opposite direction

and Billy Joe Shaver

THE TALL MAN mines a corrosive world of fear and terror before ultimately revealing it's own unimaginable truth

and playing videogames as an escape from reality

Key's Xwayxway sets a new bar

Ockeghem/ Graindelavoix/ Schmelzer - Missa Caput: Parisian Machicotage for Mandatum