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Nubya Garcia

YABBY YOU MEETS KING TUBBY

Walls Of Jerusalem PROPHETS, 1976

I’m Caribbean, so reggae and dub was always around, and in my teens I went further into my own discovery of it. Maybe it’s because I’ve listened to loads of King Tubby before, but when I first heard this it felt like I knew the record already. There’s such an overarching sense of beauty throughout this record – it represents how I converse with sound and melody in my own music. Some of the tracks with Yabby You feel to me like a meditative prayer. Dub is both my ‘get

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