East of the River Nile is a 1977 reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 album (see 1977 in music

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) by Jamaica

Jamaica

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n musician Augustus Pablo

Augustus Pablo

Horace Swaby , known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He popularized the use of the melodica in reggae music...

. A purely instrumental

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 album, East of the River Nile showcases Pablo's skill on the melodica

Melodica

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, and various other keyboards. Also featured are studio musicians famous as members of The Wailers

Wailers Band

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, Bob Marley

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Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...

's backing band.

A reissue of East of the River Nile, with six bonus tracks, charted on Billboard's Reggae Albums chart in 2002 (see 2002 in music

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), peaking at #13.

Track listing

All tracks mixed by King Tubby

King Tubby

King Tubby was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s...

, except "Upful Living" mixed by Lee Perry

Side one

1. "Chant to King Selassie I" (with Ja-Malla Band)
2. "Natural Way" (with Ja-Malla Band)
3. "Nature Dub"
4. "Upfull Living" (with The Upsetters
   The Upsetters
   The Upsetters was the name given to the house band for Jamaican reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. The name of the band comes from Perry's nickname of Upsetter, after his song "I Am The Upsetter", a musical dismissal of his former boss Coxsone Dodd....
   
   )
5. "Unfinished Melody" (with The Upsetters)
6. "Jah Light"

Side two

1. "Memories of the Ghetto" (with The Upsetters)
2. "Africa (1983)"
3. "East of the River Nile"
4. "Sounds from Levi"
5. "Chapter 2"
6. "Addis Ababa"

2002 CD reissue extra tracks

13. "East Africa"


14. "East of the River Nile" (Original)


15. "Memories of the Ghetto Dub"


16. "Jah Light Version"


17. "Islington Rock"


18. "Meditation Dub"

Personnel

• Augustus Pablo – organ
  Organ (music)
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  , piano
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  , strings
  String instrument
  A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , clavinet
  Clavinet
  A Clavinet is an electrically amplified keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar. Its distinctive bright staccato sound has appeared particularly in funk, disco, rock, and reggae songs.Various...
  
  , melodica
  Melodica
  The melodica, also known as the "blow-organ" or "key-flute", is a free-reed instrument similar to the melodeon and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole,...
  
  
• Aston "Family Man" Barrett
  Aston Barrett
  Aston Barrett , often called "Family Man" or "Fams" for short, is a Jamaican bass player and Rastafarian.-Biography:...
  
   – bass
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• Clayton Downie – bass
• Robert "Robbie" Shakespeare – bass
• Earl "Bagga" Walker – bass
• Carlton "Carlie" Barrett
  Carlton Barrett
  Carlton "Carly" Barrett was an influential reggae drummer and percussion player. His musical development in the early years were with his brother Aston "Family Man" Barrett as a member of Lee "Scratch" Perry's "house band" The Upsetters. The brothers joined Bob Marley and The Wailers around 1970...
  
   – drums
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• Noel "Alphonso" Benbow – drums
• Max Edwards – drums
• Earl "Chinna" Smith – guitar
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• Everton DaSilva – percussions
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• Ja-Malla Band – played on "Chant to King Selassie I" and "Natural Way"
• The Upsetters
  The Upsetters
  The Upsetters was the name given to the house band for Jamaican reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. The name of the band comes from Perry's nickname of Upsetter, after his song "I Am The Upsetter", a musical dismissal of his former boss Coxsone Dodd....
  
   played on "Upfull Living", "Unfinished Melody" and "Memories of the Ghetto"
• King Tubby
  King Tubby
  King Tubby was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s...
  
   – mixing
• Lee Perry – mixing