Brenda Ray

Stationed in North Western England in the past due ’70s, Brenda Ray started her musical job in age post-punk, working under various aliases and melding raw punk instrumentation with dance rhythms and reggae affects. During this time period, Ray created D.I.Con. recordings within the nebulous Liverpudlian collective Naffi, working as Naffi Sandwich and Brenda & the Seaside Balls. Many singles were released through the entire early ’80s, all on a remarkably obscure local range. In the middle-’90s, Ray was helping reggae companies Sir Freddie Viadukt and Roy Cousins on the task that included reissuing monitors from Cousins’ Tamoki Wambesi label. Sparked with the task, Ray began documenting her very own compositions, building on primary root base reggae rhythms from these classic tapes and overdubbing her very own vocals, melodica, and various other various flourishes. This technique extended between 1995 and 2005, with the outcome getting 2006’s cult traditional record Walatta, a critically acclaimed amalgam of fans rock and roll rhythms and displaced dreaminess. In 2012, a compilation of Ray’s early post-punk function surfaced by means of D’Ya Listen to Me!: Naffi Years, 1979-1983.