Featured Artist
Ottmar Liebart
" I discovered an interesting connection between Flamenco and Reggae and recorded an album of songs that combine the Flamenco rhythm called “Tangos”, which I believe actually hails from the Caribbean and is Caribbean rather than Arabic in origin, with Reggae. Tangos has a lilt and the same avoidance of beat one that Reggae and Salsa have, and it sounds very different from all other Flamenco forms. Presumably all three of these rhythms, Tangos, Reggae and Salsa, have roots in Africa. My new album contains two of my older songs (“Barcelona Nights” and “Heart Still/Beating” - I have wanted to record reggae version of these songs since the mid-Nineties!) and nine songs by Bob Marley - using rhythmic elements from Reggae and Tangos. Growing up in the Seventies Bob Marley and the Wailers were one of my favorite bands and they meant a lot more to me than the Beatles or the Rolling Stones."