John Masouri

It’s been forty-five years since reggae producer Dennis Bovell took Dub Band stalwarts Nick Straker and John Kpiaye, together with...

This is the album with Sister Nancy's best-known hit on it - the iconic Bam Bam , which can still be heard in reggae dances and playlists...

I was honoured to write the liner notes for VP Records' important new retrospective of Hugh "Red Man" James' mid-to-late 80s' dancehall...

.At last! Thanks to director Martin Disney for commissioning me to write the liner notes for this first official release of Bob Marley...

EXTRACT Cocoa Tea is sat on a small wicker chair in Bobby Digital's front garden. It's mid-afternoon and the studio hasn't come to life...

Bobby Digital is a key figure in dancehall music's international breakthrough. When I first visited him in the early nineties he'd...

Producer Adrian Sherwood has crossed so many musical boundaries throughout his lengthy career that it's impossible to describe the kind...

London in the early seventies was a hot bed of creativity; musical and otherwise. I'd just moved to the capital as a twenty-one year old...

Understand What Black Is was released to coincide with the Last Poets' 50th anniversary. It was co-producer Prince Fatty who first played...

The quotes used in these liner notes resulted from a stay in Jamaica during 2015, whilst working on a film about Gussie commissioned by...