ONE LOVE: REGGAE: Tim Wall: Prof. of Radio and Popular Music Studies

“It's Agustus Pablo's "East of the River Nile" - a record that was released in the 1980's and I think it's a really key piece of reggae history. It developed a completely different style of reggae, really from the rhythm track up. He introduced lots of interesting instrumentation and new approaches to working in the studio and it's interesting how different sorts of music adapted and adopted things that he'd done on an instrumental reggae album. So he played the child's toy, the melodica, and again I think that influenced quite a lot of the people throughout the eighties and into the nineties .. you got more and more people using that. But as the name suggests "East of the River Nile" it has quite a spiritual, Eastern, feel to it so it picked up on that thread in reggae and made it stronger and more important.” 

Tim Wall: Parkside Building, Birmingham City University, 4th April 2018 

Agustus Pablo: "East of the River Nile" released 1977 

Tim Wall @profofpop