NEWS: PENTHOUSE TO RELEASE TO SKA ALBUM THIS MONTH

SKALICIOUS is the title of a ska album to be released this month by Penthouse Records.
 
 
The set has 15 songs by artistes including singers Marcia Griffiths, Tessanne Chin, Etana, Ernie Smith, singjay Buju Banton and deejay Exco Levi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head of Penthouse, producer Donovan Germain, says he started work on the project five years ago.

“I thought it would be something different, I don’t want to confine myself to reggae,” Germain told the Jamaica Observer.

He said not all the artistes he called up were keen on doing ska, an uptempo, horn-hooked beat that emerged in the early 1960s.

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