Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Keep Cool Babylon - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
2. Know Far I - Bongo Herman, Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont
3. Back to Africa, Pt. 1 - Count Ossie & His Band
4. Rivers of Babylon - Prince Student
5. Rise Jah Jah Childern (The Lion Sleeps) - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
6. African Breakfast - Bongo Herman, Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont
7. Rasta Reggae (aka I'm Going Home) - Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari, Count Ossie
8. Run Come Rally - Dadawah
9. Roll River Jordan - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
10. Salaam (Peace) - Bongo Herman, Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont
11. Ethiopian Kingdom - Prince Roland Downer, Count Ossie & His Band
12. Drums of Passion - Morgan's All Stars
13. We're Marching on to Victory - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
14. Tribute to Don Quarrie - Bongo Herman
15. Soul Drums - Leslie Butler, Count Ossie
16. Rasta Dreadlocks - Heaven Singers
17. Words of Wisdom - Max Romeo

Disc 2:

1. Run Come (Throw Away Your Stoney Heart) - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
2. Dew of Herman (aka Eternal Drums) - Les Chen, Bongo Herman
3. Move Up (Nyah Bongo) - Al and the Vibrators, Count Ossie & His Band
4. Burning Drums - Dadawah
5. Carnal Mind - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
6. Earth's Rightful Ruler - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
7. Nyah Man Story - Linkers
8. Reggae With the Birds - Harry J All-Stars, Bongo Herman
9. Jah Got the Whole World - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
10. Rack-A-Tack - Typhoon All Stars
11. Seventy Two Nations - Dadawah
12. Water Pump - Bongo Herman
13. Rastaman Chant - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
14. Samia - Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari, Count Ossie
15. Sounds of Babylon - Samuel the First
16. Tribute to the President - Bongo Herman

Disc 3:

1. Nyah Man Say - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
2. Freedom Fighter - Bongo Herman, Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont
3. Ju Ju Wah - Prince Roland Downer, Count Ossie & His Band
4. Zion Land - Dadawah
5. I Dread Version - Count Ossie & His Band
6. Cast Them in the Fire - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
7. Feel Nice - Bongo Herman, Eric "Bingy Bunny" Lamont
8. Bongo Man (A Come) - Jimmy Cliff
9. Blacker Black - Count Ossie & His Band,
10. Pretty Little Face - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
11. Vice President - Bongo Herman
12. Know How You Stand - Dadawah
13. Back to Africa, Pt. 2 - Count Ossie & His Band
14. Stravation - Boston Jack, Soulites
15. Come Down (Pomps and Pride) - Ras Michael, Sons of Negus
16. Musical Drum Sound - I-Roy
17. Musical Drum Sound [Version] - Now Generation

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #217318 in Music
• Released on: 2003-07-01
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered

Album Description
Focusing on the raw, 'ethnic' sounds created by a handful of Rasta percussionists, this 3 CD set gathers 50 essential 'Nyahbinghi' sides from the sixties & early seventies. At the time of their original release, most of these recordings were considered way too off-beam by the general listening public and, as a result, the discs faded into obscurity. Today, however, there is a renewed interest in these often dark & moody sounds, with collectors paying vast sums for early examples of the genre. This release should therefore not only satisfy the demands of these numerous fans, but also introduce the hypnotic style to a whole new listening public. Three paper sleeves in a deluxe flip-top box. Trojan. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Very good, but too much Ras Michael
I was always a big fan of nyabinghi music. If you are not familiar with nyabinghi, think "Rastaman Chant" by Bob Marley; it's a very African sounding folk music style of the rasta religion in Jamaica. When I bought this I expected nothing but nyabinghi music, but when I first played it I was a little dissapointed because a lot of it is simply old school dub with bongo's in it (which I also liked, but it was not the reason I bought this album). But after a while I began to really like the albums. There are too many Ras Michael/Dadawah songs on it, most of them are boring, but there are lots of cool and rare songs on here you wouldn't have discovered anywhere else: like the songs of Bongo Herman (bongo reworkings of classics like Yim mas gan; The liquidator, my conversation, drum song (not the studio one version though)), Roland Downer who sings in amharic over a jazzy backing, the Jimmy Cliff track is cool, the Linkers, Al Vibrators (before he turned into a German porn star, that is), Samuel the First dj-ing over the Melodians "Rivers of Babylon", I Roy dj-ing over Audrey Rollins "Repatriation" (+ version), the calypso music of one Boston Jack, all very very nice. I would recommend this, although it's not 100% nyabinghi music. I would also recommend that you get seriously blunted while listening to it. Only then will you fully understand it.

Nyahbinghi
This is a wonderful set, but I've tried two different copies and both of them had the same problem on tracks 11 & 12 of the 3rd cd: they stop playing about a minute and a half into the track. You can get past that problematic spot if you fast forward a little, but it's annoying nonetheless.

The set features the complete Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus "Nyahbinghi" album and the complete Dadawah "Peace & Love" set, plus an additional track. Both are pretty amazing.