Zulya and the Children of the Underground by Dean Jackson

Going on a short weekend vacation at 10AM and it’s already 3AM here and I need some sleep, so here are 2 faves from the last months. First, a smoky roots reggae/dub hit from 70’s Jamaica, remastered this year by Wackies. Bullwackies All-Stars’ Free for All is the title track and it was out on The Heptones’ Hepic label back in the day. The second track is from the Tatarstan-born (In Russia) Melbourne-based folk singer Zulya Kamalova. Her fifth album on Westpark Music is a good one I’ve been listening constantly, mixing Russian, Slavic, Balkan sounds in trad and non-trad forms.