Italian music fanatic David Nerattini explores the melting pot of dub reggae rhythms and spaced-out new wave synths that came out of the Compass Point Studios between 1980-84. When Chris Blackwell of Island Records started to put together the band at the studio in Nassau, Bahamas, he only had a hunch of how it might sound. But with the rhythm section of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, perhaps Jamaica's most-celebrated duo, plus percussionist Sticky Thompson and Mikey Chung, back-up guitarist for Peter Tosh, the foundations were already world-class. Add Wally Badarou, the French-African funk and jazz-fusion keyboardist, and British guitarist and songwriter Barry Reynolds, and there was plenty of international input and different energies. But at its heart, it was and still is a very Jamaican sound.
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