Ras Michael

Negus is really a name of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, the Almighty God from the Rastafarian motion, and no a single gives him more eloquent homage than Ras Michael and his group, the Sons of Negus. This is actually the beat from the heart, in line with the first “device of ten strings,” the hand-beaten drum. On 1975’s Dadawah, Michael took a spiritual ceremonial gathering because the basis for an record of elegant poetry with organic, visceral power. Afterwards, eschewing minimalism, such functions as Promised Property Sounds added consumer electronics; it created a primeval neo-psychedelia rivaled just with the tests of Lee Perry.