Pre-order of From Then 'Til Now. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
releases May 3, 2024
10CHF or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Beautiful 12" LP on black wax vinyl. Including 6 pages insert with detailed credits and liner notes.
PLEASE NOTE that in order to avoid expensive shipping costs, all our records are shipped without tracking or insurance. If you want tracking and insurance please contact us before placing your order.
Includes digital pre-order of From Then 'Til Now.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
25CHFor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Package including a beautiful 12" LP on black wax vinyl (including 6 pages insert with detailed credits and liner notes) + Memories of Old 7" vinyl.
PLEASE NOTE that in order to avoid expensive shipping costs, all our records are shipped without tracking or insurance. If you want tracking and insurance please contact us before placing your order.
Includes digital pre-order of From Then 'Til Now.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
33CHFor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Package including Roots Architects LP + The Inspirators LP!
PLEASE NOTE that in order to avoid expensive shipping costs, all our records are shipped without tracking or insurance. If you want tracking and insurance please contact us before placing your order.
Includes digital pre-order of From Then 'Til Now.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
edition of 20
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Beautiful 12" LP on black wax vinyl. Including 6 pages insert with detailed credits and liner notes. + CD with 24 pages booklet.
PLEASE NOTE that in order to avoid expensive shipping costs, all our records are shipped without tracking or insurance. If you want tracking and insurance please contact us before placing your order.
Includes digital pre-order of From Then 'Til Now.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
37CHFor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Digipack CD with 24 pages booklet.
PLEASE NOTE that in order to avoid expensive shipping costs, all our records are shipped without tracking or insurance. If you want tracking and insurance please contact us before placing your order.
Includes digital pre-order of From Then 'Til Now.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
15CHFor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Package including Roots Architects CD and The Inspirators CD! No extra shipping cost
PLEASE NOTE that in order to avoid expensive shipping costs, all our records are shipped without tracking or insurance. If you want tracking and insurance please contact us before placing your order.
Includes digital pre-order of From Then 'Til Now.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
edition of 20
25CHFor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Original test-press of the LP pressed with bio vinyl. Only 5 copies.
PLEASE NOTE that in order to avoid expensive shipping costs, all our records are shipped without tracking or insurance. If you want tracking and insurance please contact us before placing your order.
Includes digital pre-order of From Then 'Til Now.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Bringing together over 50 of Jamaica's greatest session musicians, whose work spans from the birth of reggae in the late 1960s until today, Roots Architects is the largest gathering of Jamaican musical talent on one all-instrumental album. Never before have so many veterans, who helped create the immortal rhythms that made reggae internationally successful, been assembled to play on new material without vocals. This album aims to celebrate and pay tribute to the unsung heroes of reggae music: the rhythm builders or Roots Architects.
The project is the brainchild of Swiss keyboardist and producer Mathias Liengme. In 2013, he travelled to Kingston, Jamaica, to produce The Inspirators project, an all-star album gathering Leroy ”Horsemouth” Wallace, Lloyd Parks, Earl ”Chinna” Smith and Sangie Davis, the four of them acting both as musicians and vocalists. This first experience in Kingston studio life paved the way to what would become the Roots Architects project. In February and March 2017 Mathias Liengme travelled for the fifth time to Kingston to record as many of reggae’s greatest living veteran musicians as he could. With the help of a few of these Architects like Robbie Lyn, Fil Callender or Dalton Browne, he managed to gather over 50 session musicians aged 60 to 85 on nine instrumental songs.
Roots Architects are legends back together in Kingston studios doing what they do best: creating instrumental music all together!
David Rodigan, BBC 1Xtra, January 2024
"We salute Fruits Records for maintaining and keeping the dream alive, the music that made Jamaica famous around the world: ska, rocksteady and reggae. Here are the Roots Architects."
credits
releases May 3, 2024
Drums:
Sly Dunbar, Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace, Mikey “Boo” Richards, Fil Callender, Stanley “Barnabas” Bryan, Albert “Ilawi” Malawi
Bass:
Robbie Shakespeare, Lloyd Parks, Boris Gardiner, Jackie Jackson, Errol “Flabba Holt” Carter, Christopher Meredith, Howard “Spred” Bedasse
Keyboards:
Robbie Lyn, Ansel Collins, Michael “Ibo” Cooper, Tyrone Downie, Franklyn ”Bubbler“ Waul, Bernard “Touter” Harvey, Tony “Asher” Brissett, Dennis “Jah D” Fearon, Lloyd “Obeah” Denton, Mathias Liengme
Guitars:
Ernest Ranglin, Radcliffe “Dougie” Bryan, Michael “Mao” Chung, Dwight Pinkney, Winston “Bo Pee” Bowen, Stephen “Cat” Coore, Dalton Browne, Fil Callender, David “Little David” Trail, Leebert “Gibby” Morrisson, Papis “Peace” Diouf, Josu Santamaria
Percussion:
Bongo Joe, Christopher “Sky Juice” Burth, Harry T, Derrick Stewart, Alvin Haughton, Bongo Herman, Alphonso Craig, Joseph “Junior Congo” Sutherland, Mathias Liengme
Horns section:
Vin Gordon, Karl “Cannonball” Bryan, Glen DaCosta, Dean Fraser, Calvin “Bubbles” Cameron, Llewellyn “Lew” Chang, Arnold Brackenridge, Sting Wray, Everald Gayle, Dwight Richards, Sheldon “ATiiBA” Bernard, Claude “Jah See” Jordan
Recorded between February and March 2017 at Mixing Lab Studio, Kingston, by Hasani “Snych” Williams and at Small World Studio, Kingston, by Perry Hendricks and Gaylard Bravo.
Additional recordings at Grafton Studio, Kingston, by Michael “Ibo” Cooper, at Circle House Studio, Miami, by Bernard “Touter” Harvey, at Dining Room Studio, Toronto, by Stew Crooks, and at Bridge Studio, Geneva, by Mathias Liengme. Prophet 12 programming by Thomas Tiercy.
Mixed at A-Lone Ark Muzik Studio, Santander, by Roberto Sánchez.
Mastered at Centraldubs, Bern, by Adi Flück.
All songs composed and arranged by Mathias Liengme, except ‘Everlasting Love’ composed by Errol Kong and arranged by Mathias Liengme. Horns arrangement on ‘In The Shadow’ by Vin Gordon, Glen DaCosta and Mathias Liengme, and on ‘Rose Hall’s Birds’ by Glen DaCosta and Mathias Liengme.
Liner notes by Angus Taylor.
Photography by Liza Mazur.
Artwork by J. Bonner.
Produced by Mathias Liengme.
A Fruits Records production.
Record label since 2015 making and promoting Jamaican music. Our music is 100% original and most of the time made in collaboration with Jamaican artists. All music is pressed on vinyl record.
