13 May 2024

Musick that Needed Work - O: Oku Onuora

 

Another artist that I've shared in the past. Oku Onuora, born Orlando Wong in Kingston, JA March 1952, is a Jamaican Dub poet. His freeman name Oku Onura means "Fire that burns oppression" or "Voice of the people" in Nigerian. 

 



First up is the re-issue of his debut 1984 release with AK7 (with 5 bunus Dub tracks). Recorded at Tuff Gong Studio...

Oku Onuora & AK7 - Pressure Drop, Zola & Zola ZZCD012, 1993.

A Slum Dweller Declares
Dread Times
Sketches
Last Night
Pressure Drop
(Heathen) Let Wi Go
Thinkin'
The Call
Beat Yuh Drums
Decolonization
Change Yes Change
bonus tracks -
Changes Dub
Dread Dub
Sketches in Dub
Let Wi Go Dub
Pressure Dub
 
 
 
 


Here's a later effort released by ROIR with help from Sly & Robbie, Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Style Scott & many more...
 
Oku Onuora - Dubbin' Away, ROIR RUSCD8253, 1999.

Defiance    
Dub Out    
Untitled Dub    
Dubble Trouble    
We'll Keep on Struggling    
Dub Can't Wait    
Sun Dub (Solar Dub)    
Dub Pressure
Dub Sketches
A Slum Dweller Declares    
Dub Changes    
Dubbing Away    
Ruff Dub
Cumin Dub
More Dub
Fia Dub    
Tears
 
 
 

Enjoy,
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15 comments:

  1. Pressure Drop
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    Dubbin’ Away
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  2. Thank you, Maybe you can help me with his New Jerusalem Dub, his first on ROIR
    https://www.discogs.com/release/6110838-Oku-Onuora-New-Jerusalem-Dub
    I have included here his second ROIR: I A Tell - Dubwise and Otherwise
    https://we.tl/t-2RdO2QnQsV
    This link will be good for a week

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    1. I feel bad taking your offering without reciprocating but New Jerusalem Dub cassette has been on my want-list for some time. There are ones for sale & quite resonably on discogs, but I am waiting for digital files. I have a cassette player but no way to digitize. Sorry, but thanks for the share.

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  3. Ø Thanks for this outstanding album =Dubbing Away= from the maestro himself Oku Onuora Ive missed in my collection..The man never miss the picture like on his last album-I ve Seen....A request please ,is any chance to get Jah Woosh meets The Mixman?.....All d best bro for making our days

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    1. Onu is the man...what a life he's lived.

      Jah Woosh meets Mixman - Fire in a Blakamix, Blakamix BLKMCD007, 1993

      Breaking Barriers
      Version
      Words of Isaiah
      Version
      Jah Woosh Story
      Version
      Judge Dem
      Version
      Jah Live
      Version
      Black We Are
      Version

      THIS ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO ALL ROOTS MUSIC LOVERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. BLACK HEROES & HEROINES, DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT, MUSIC WILL BREAK DOWN BARRIERS.
      LOVE, JAH WOOSH

      https://mega.nz/file/6xdVhaYa#bFDE-mTh8Znu9m_rlwkP3Qpd82P8ExbNpNuGPy3wH88

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    2. NØ maximum respect for dis quick feedback.....You made my night shift...another album Ive being looking for since I lost my first copy....stay blessed bro.

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    1. Good to hear from you once more, Charlie. Glad to share something you liked. Check out Richard's kind share in the first reply. Good for a few more days.

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  5. Pfffff, I am searching for New Jerusalem Dub a long time. Now, on Soulseek, there is a user called swt and he has it in his shares. Private shares, and he doesn't respond to any action/question/request from my side. When you have any odd way to get through. You can have a go. Good luck.

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    1. Just a note to say thank you so much for New Jeru Dubu.

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    2. I NØ, I have just got a copy @320, you still need it was going to post in RR

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    3. Got it, but thanks for sure.

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    4. Was fake 320!! Do you have 320 copy? or is what you have upscaled too? Reb

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  6. Can you please Re Post the New Jerusalem Dub

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