Mista Savona & GAUDI - Havana Meets Kingston In Dub [FULL ALBUM]

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HAVANA MEETS KINGSTON IN DUB

A companion album to the critically acclaimed 'Havana Meets Kingston', this is Gaudi and Mista Savona's dub take on Savona's original sessions in Cuba and Jamaica. Recorded at Egrem Studios in Havana (where Buena Vista Social Club recorded their famous album) and Tuff Gong Studio in Kingston (Bob Marley's studio in Jamaica), this is a world first project bringing music together from both islands. It's a sound-combination that meshes their distinct musical pathways, effortlessly blending Cuban percussion and melodies with reggae's rumbling basslines and roots rhythms, expertly dubbed by Gaudi at his Metatron Studio in London UK, with overdubs and additional mixes from Savona at various studios around the world.

This ambitious project features a lineup of incredible Jamaican and Cuban talent, including reggae stars Sly & Robbie on drum and bass, Ernest Ranglin and Winston 'Bopee' Bowen on guitars, percussion by Bongo Herman and Shaun 'Bugzy' Anderson, and vocals from Jamaican stars such as Cornel Campbell, Prince Alla, Lutan Fyah, Leroy Sibbles (The Heptones), Cali P, Aza Lineage & Randy Valentine to name just a few. On the Cuban side the album features Rolando Luna (piano) and Barbarito Toress (laud) of Buena Vista Social Club fame, percussionist Changuito of Los Van Van, Yaroldy Abreu & Julito Padron of Irakere, Oliver Valdes from Havana Cultura, and vocalists include Brenda Navarrete, Maikel Ante, Solis, and Eugenio Rodri​́​guez 'El Raspa' - in fact there are over 30 Cuban musicians featured on the album.

It was during Savona's first visit to Cuba that he could imagine the sounds of Cuban Rumba mixed with Jamaican Nyabinghi (the folkloric styles unique to each island), and with this unique musical vision he embarked on this wonderful music project!

Gaudi and Savona are not new to each other, having already worked on a number of reggae projects together in the past, including a remix for Savona's album with SIzzla, as well as a dub for the brilliant single 'Carnival' featuring Randy Valentine & Solis.

Both individual credientials are nothing short of astonishing for these two fearless producers, with Gaudi's chart-topping works for Steel Pulse, Horace Andy, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Mad Professor, Johnny Clarke, Hollie Cook, Dub FX, Mykal Rose, Barrington Levy, Maxi Priest, Max Romeo, Don Letts, Desmond Dekker, African Head Charge, and Dennis Bovell among many others. And Mista Savona has worked with a host of Jamaican legends including Alton Ellis, Anthony B, Sizzla, Capleton, Burro Banton, Horace Andy, Sly & Robbie, Big Youth, Clinton Fearon, Turbulence and many, many more.

This dub masterpiece is both an essential companion album to Havana Meets Kingston, as well as being a powerful album in it's own right.

released November 18, 2022

DUB Mixes by GAUDI & Jake Savona

Mixed at Metatron Studio in London
Recorded at Egrem Studios (Estudios Areito 101) in Havana
Engineered by Eric Coelho
Original sessions mixed by Glen Christiansen & Jake Savona at
SingSing Studios, Melbourne

Mastered by GAUDI at Metatron Studio, London

Front cover painting by Rudi Quinzalez

Drums: Sly Dunbar
Bass: Robbie Shakespeare
Guitar: Winston ‘Bopee’ Bowen, Ernest Ranglin, Baz Turnbull and Tom Martin
Piano: Rolando Luna & Jake Savona
Congas: Yaroldy Abreu
Laud: Barbarito Torres
Kette Drum: Bongo Herman
Timbale: Changuito
Mixed Percussion: Oliver Valdés, Shaun ‘Bugzy’ Anderson, Jacinto Herrera, Javier Fredes, Luis Poblete, Vince Vella and Yaroldy Abreu
Trumpet: Julito Padrón
Trombones: Juan Carlos Marín Elósegui & Antonio Leal
Saxophones: David Suárez and Andrew ‘AJ’ Jackson
Hammond Organ: Jake Savona

Licensed to VP Records. All Rights Reserved

[TheDubwize]

Greetings from Savona (the Town) Big up!😅

[DouglasF]

Melodeon pyrotechnics. Thank you Meester Pablo and all who carry the Roots Tortch. 🔥 ❤😊

[jr.rasentertainment]

Big up Mista Savona. I was listening to your catalogue a few years ago but never actually knew who you were until I came across your name and now I finally know you are from Melbourne. Greetings from Vanuatu

[Eisonhawk]

I just ordered this one top shottah m8 !

[dreblack]

Fisherman Dub...fyah!!! Loved the original. Dis one blaze it out the hotbox. Beeg up Mr Savona & Gaudi. Please release as a single that i may get straight to rowing dat boat. Jah bless ur craft! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

[juanaureliogilortega]

Simplemente maravilloso, gracias por tan buen trabajo.