Echoes Magazine - October 2024

This month's cover star, Jamaican singer Kumar Bent, has an excellent new album out on Easy Star Records called Tales Of Reality on which he's backed by top Swiss reggae musicians the 18th Parallel. Our other reggae feature celebrates the early 80s' pairing of Yellowman & Fathead, whose 1983 album Divorced! has now been reissued by Burning Sounds.

Buju Banton's recent escapades are detailed in our monthly Vibes column. Yaksta, Shaggy & Olaf Blackwood, Bounty Killer, Ky-mani Marley and Nigey Boy head this month's singles' reviews, whilst October's album reviews highlight essential new works by the Wailers and Ranking Joe, as well as reissues featuring Wayne Smith, the Travellers and Rhoda Dakar.