BEAUTY FOR ASHES

A MIDNITE ALBUM
  • 01 A Reminder
  • 02 When Jah Arise
  • 03 Same Boat We
  • 04 Beauty For Ashes
  • 05 Betterment Mouth
  • 06 Same I Ah One
  • Album artwork depicting a magisterial cave temple blending Rastafari, Ancient Egyptian and Budddhist iconography and architecture. [Marcus Wilson, 2013]
  • 07 Holy Mountain
  • 08 Generation Again
  • 09 All i's on you
  • 10 Weather the Storm
  • 11 Tried and Tested
  • 12 A Healing
  • TRIBUTE TO A MASTERPIECE

    "...one of the best albums of 2014 and one of the best Midnite albums of all time..." -Achis' Reggae Blog
    Midnite (now known as Akae Beka) is a roots reggae band out of St. Croix, Virgin Islands formed by brothers Vaughn and Ron Benjamin.
    Their 1997 debut, Unpolished ushered in their unique live-music sound coupled with brilliantly poetic lyrics, marking the beginning of their prolific output.
    Releasing over fifty projects over the next twenty years, MIDNITE has reshaped the geographies and textures of roots reggae music and Rastafari philosophy.
    Their 2013 album, Beauty for Ashes, is one of their last projects before reforming into Akae Beka.
    The album illuminates a spiritual, intellectual and cultural journey with lyrics that deftly climb higher heights onto an eternal vantage point grounded in love.
    Beauty for Ashes shows love to to be a practice, or rather a repertoire of empathetic moves based in ideas of livity. "A Healing" epitomizes these themes.
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