Roots Architects with Ernest Ranglin & Tyrone Downie – Memories of Old (2023) Single

Label: Fruits Records
Drums by: Fil Callender
Bass by: Jackie Jackson
Organ by: Tyrone Downie
Piano, organ layers, maracas by: Mathias Liengme
Rhythm guitar by: Winston “Bo Pee” Bowen
Lead guitar by: Ernest Ranglin
Pick guitar by: Josu Santamaria
Repeater by: Bongo Joe
Trombone by: Vin Gordon
Tenor saxophone by: Glen DaCosta
Trumpet by: Sting Wray
Flute by: Llewellyn “Lew” Chang
Release date: 12/08/2023
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 Bridge Studio, Geneva, by Mathias Liengme.
Mixed at A-Lone Ark Muzik Studio, Santander, by Roberto Sánchez.
Mastered at Centraldubs, Bern, by Adi Flück.
Release date: 12/08/2023

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 project aims to celebrate and pay tribute to the unsung heroes of reggae music: the rhythm builders or Roots Architects.

Before releasing the full album, due out April 2024, this new single gives you a taste of what’s coming your way. Legends back together in Kingston studios doing what they do best: creating instrumental music all together! ‘Memories of Old’ pays tribute to the rocksteady era. You’ll be delighted by Ernest Ranglin’s guitar solo and Tyrone Downie’s organ solo.
B side features an version expertly mixed by Roberto Sánchez!

1. Memories of Old
2. Version