ALPHA & OMEGA (UK)

ROOTS OF DUB FUNK 5 - Track 4 - "BUSH GANJA DUB"

ALPHA & OMEGA come from the roots. Not the usual Jamaican reggae roots, but the music they make is certainly roots dub as most classical reggae fans would recognize it. Mysterious and deep, their dub carries echoes of '70's reggae whilst offering no concessions to revivalism. In doing so they have helped create a movement born from UK sound- systems such as Jah Shaka and now acknowledged as a separate musical form in its own right, blurring the boundaries between conventional reggae and ambient instrumental music.

While they are hardly reggae stars in the accepted sense, preferring a modest, almost backroom approach, their name has become a byword for powerful, mesmeric music with an atmosphere and quality all of it's own. To date they remain a cult act, albeit one with a fiercely loyal and still growing following in the UK.

Alpha & Omega (John and Christine) sold their first album by mail order on home-made cassettes. Their debut album proper "Daniel In The Lion's Den" was issued on their own eponymous label in 1990 to instant acclaim by the UK roots cognoscenti. Restless, raw and unapologetic, it defined their stance at the forefront of the new British roots movement.

A&O's often eerie use of keyboards, melodica and studio effects lends their music a subtlety rarely encountered in contemporary music. Within these mesmerising grooves lies a wordless message that's every bit as urgent and compelling as the one passed down by their Jamaican reggae mentors.
As one of Britain's most enigmatic bands, Alpha & Omega are followed by a growing band of admirers, a testament to their undoubted musical artistry. Unwilling to either stand still or compromise the spiritual content of their work, they continue to uniquely explore the boundaries of modern dub music.

CONTACT: Alpha & Omega