◇ image via WikipediaDennis Bovell
Dennis Bovell is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Cimarons, Alpha Blondy, Les Binks and Dry & Heavy. Those roots explain a lot about how Dennis Bovell arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Matumbi, Creation Rebel, Joe Gibbs & The Professionals, The Aggrovators and Yabby You, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Gaudi, Bananarama, The Pop Group, Fela Kuti and The Slits, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Dennis Bovell, reaching back through Cimarons and forward to Gaudi. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Dennis Bovell is a Barbados-born reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in the United Kingdom. He was a member of a progressive rock group called Stonehenge, who later changed name and became the British reggae band Matumbi, and released dub-reggae records under his own name as well as the pseudonym Blackbeard. He is most widely known for his decades-spanning collaborations with Linton Kwesi Johnson.
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Dennis Bovell connections
Dennis Bovell grew out of Cimarons, Alpha Blondy, Les Binks and Dry & Heavy, shares an orbit with Matumbi, Creation Rebel, Joe Gibbs & The Professionals and The Aggrovators, went on to shape Gaudi, Bananarama, The Pop Group and Fela Kuti. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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