Akae Beka - Beauty For Ashes

Before Zero Records

£25.74

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: IGBZRLP004
Barcode: 5050580782648
Release Date: 07 Oct 2022
Genre: Roots Reggae

Back in: 07 Apr 2023

01: A Reminder - Akae Beka
02: When JAH Arise (feat. Lutan Fyah) - Akae Beka
03: Same Boat We - Akae Beka
04: Beauty for Ashes - Akae Beka
05: Betterment Mouth - Akae Beka
06: Same I Ah One (feat. Pressure Buss Pipe) - Akae Beka
07: Holy Mountain - Akae Beka
08: All I's On You - Akae Beka
09: Weather the Storm (feat. Ras Batch) - Akae Beka
10: A Healing - Akae Beka

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.