{"id":10947,"date":"2025-07-04T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2025-07-04T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:51:57","slug":"back-to-roots-rock-reggae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10947","title":{"rendered":"Back to Roots Rock Reggae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natures Way Entertainment out of South Florida has released <strong><em>\u2018Roots Rock Reggae\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a song by Zamunda and Fantan Mojah. It is the lead single from the compilation album of the same name, scheduled for release in September. The Zamunda\/Fantan Mojah single was recently released.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded at Tuff Gong studios in Kingston, the seven-song project also features songs from Ginjah, Iba Mahr, Turbulence and Unga Barunga. The latter, a member of Notis Heavyweight Rockaz band, also played bass on the \u2018riddim\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe choose \u2018Roots Rock Reggae\u2019 because there\u2019s a lot of noise in the reggae world that not enough real reggae music is being produced. So, of course we had to prove them wrong with this project and take it back to basics,\u201d said Garfield Cowan, head of Natures Way Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>He believes the riddim\u2019s stripped-down vibe will appeal to traditional reggae fans as well as followers of dancehall. It is Natures Way Entertainment\u2019s first project for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the the label\u2019s cards is <strong><em>\u2018Only Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a collaboration between Zamunda and Turbulence, as well as an album by Zamunda. A video for <strong><em>\u2018Only Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was filmed in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one is talking about current situations around the world and only love can heal and solve it,\u201d said Cowan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natures Way Entertainment out of South Florida has released \u2018Roots Rock Reggae\u2019, a song by Zamunda and Fantan Mojah. It is the lead single from the compilation album of the same name, scheduled for release in September. The Zamunda\/Fantan Mojah single was recently released. Recorded at Tuff Gong studios in Kingston, the seven-song project also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10948,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions\/10948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}