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Beauty For Ashes
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Beauty For Ashes
Artist
Akae Beka
Label
Before Zero Records
Catalogue Number
IGBZRLP004
Release Date
October 7, 2022

  • Vinyl 1×LP

    $29.00
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    Please note the vinyl has a reduced track list. (please see vinyl track list at bottom of page)

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Akae Beka's inimitable style of rich, deep, multi-layered songwriting, uncompromising devotion to RasTafari and soulful healing melodies developed over decades performing with St. Croix based band Midnite and countless recordings. At the point of his untimely passing in 2019, he had released over 70LP's. He is without a doubt one of the most prolific reggae artists ever known.

The stellar production trinity that is Zion I Kings have been involved collectively and individually in creating some of the most highly regarded contributions to the vast Akae Beka catalogue. Beauty For Ashes was named as the best reggae album of 2014 according to iTunes. A monumental achievement for undiluted, uncompromising RasTafari roots reggae music this side of the millennium. Two of the LP’s tracks, Weather the Storm and Same I Ah One, have been catapulted into global notoriety in part due to the viral success of the YouTube video of the ‘Dub in the Rainforest’ session organised in St. Croix by Tippy I in 2014. The video offered an unparalleled audio visual insight of the powerful, captivating, energy of Vaughn Benjamin, Pressure Buss Pipe, Ras Batch, and many of the bredrin and sisterin of St. Croix rallying around the I Grade Dub living dub experience.

Following 8 years of anxious anticipation, for the countless Akae Beka fans that are also vinyl connoisseurs, this LP is now being released on as a 12" vinyl LP courtesy of Before Zero Records. This offers the listener not only the chance to enjoy this LP in an analogue form, but also the chance to hold the artwork as a 12" square masterpiece, created by the hands of Ras Marcus, the artist who gave the powerful visual presence that became synonymous to much of the I Grade / Akae Beka works over the years.

Akae Beka on Spotify

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 A Reminder 5:38 Buy

    A Reminder

  2. 2 When JAH Arise feat. Lutan Fyah 4:08 Buy

    When JAH Arise feat. Lutan Fyah

  3. 3 Same Boat We 4:57 Buy

    Same Boat We

  4. 4 Beauty for Ashes 4:24 Buy

    Beauty for Ashes

  5. 5 Betterment Mouth 4:10 Buy

    Betterment Mouth

  6. 6 Same I Ah One feat. Pressure 4:18 Buy

    Same I Ah One feat. Pressure

  7. 7 Holy Mountain 4:08 Buy

    Holy Mountain

  8. 8 Generation Again 4:49 Buy

    Generation Again

  9. 9 All i's On You 4:20 Buy

    All i's On You

  10. 10 Weather the Storm feat. Ras Batch 6:07 Buy

    Weather the Storm feat. Ras Batch

  11. 11 Tried and Tested 4:14 Buy

    Tried and Tested

  12. 12 Hold On 4:32 Buy

    Hold On

  13. 13 A Healing 4:27 Buy

    A Healing

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