08/03/2025
DUB REALMS STUDIO ,Roots Hitek Music and BENJI ROOTS , present “SPOKEN WORD” Dub Power-Tree (dub poetry) in a rootikal pattern.
This 19 track album is a follow up to the 2022 vinyl release, THE LION ROOTS EP featuring BENJI ROOTS / KING DAVID HORNS & Roots Hitek.
This set is a result of a long term alliance between Roots Hitek and Benji Roots from the days of his Tottenham based ‘Lion Roots Sound System’ through the ‘90s’ and travelling nation wide, king stepping to the Roots Dub sound Systems, through to the 2000s selecting together @ midweek ‘Club Roots Underground’ in north london and ‘Sunday Psalms @ 269 Arches’ in Brixton and Benji’s tenure at ‘Supertone Records.’
Yes I ini been yuking and the pot season with nuff cultural word sounds and uplifting ‘ites.
🔥🌶🎼 SPOKEN WORD ( soon available on CD and all digital & streaming platforms) with 2 tracks “ITIOPIA YANT” and “WHA”PPEN” still available on limited edition vinyl with 2 dub cuts apiece .
The Album is in a showcase order with vocals and matching dub cuts.
(Acknowledging the encouragement of the late great UK Principal to Benji Roots when ini heard video draft of “How Dare U” the consensus was instant, “record that now “ , ‘red light’ !!!
🎤🖌️ BENJI ROOTS ;
Co writer Roots Hitek
🎹 KEYS ,SYNTHS Roots Hitek
🎸 LOCKSLEY GICHIE, DOUGIE WARDROP, GOLDEN CHILD
🥁 ZINXX, prog. Roots Hitek
🎺 HORNSMAN COYOTE, ITAL HORNS, KING DAVID HORNS, MANJUL SOULETIE
🪘Percussion -GOLDEN CHILD ; RAS CHUBB I;JONAH DAN ; Roots Hitek
🎚️💻🎙️Produced & Mixed by ROOTS HITEK at the Dub Realms Studio,West London;
MASTERED @ pressuremastering.com
GRAPHICS : Roots Hitek Media