Absolute Piffle

General commentary and new links from Richard Gillmann. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's serious, and sometimes it's just there.

Monday, April 03, 2006

Augustus Pablo

The late Augustus Pablo was the first to use the melodica in reggae music. He was a pioneer of "dub" reggae, which takes an existing song and edits out the vocals, and then builds on that. Pablo was a producer as well as an artist in his own right.