Long Beach Dub Allstars have returned with the announcement of a new album titled Echo Mountain High.
Long Beach Dub Allstars Return New Album Echo Mountain High.
Recorded at 64 Sound in Highland Park, California, , produced by guitarist Michael “Migs” Happoldt and bassist Edwin Kampwirth and mixed by Lew Richards at 17th Recording. The track was written by vocalist Ortiz and keyboardist Roger Rivas, with Ed Kampwirth on bass, Gil Sharone on drums, Miguel Happoldt on guitars, Tim Wu on horns, and additional percussion and background vocals by Devin Morrison.
The track was written by vocalist Ortiz and keyboardist Roger Rivas, with Ed Kampwirth on bass, Gil Sharone on drums, Miguel Happoldt on guitars, Tim Wu on horns, and additional percussion and background vocals by Devin Morrison.
“Precious Time” was inspired by the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami that took the lives of nearly 20,000 people and injured thousands of others. Frotnman Opie Ortiz was visiting when the earthquake happened and the harrowing experience stuck with him.
“When the 2011 earthquake happened I was in Japan with my brother Philieano playing music and doing art. Luckily we were on the western southern side in Nagasaki safe,” Opie remembers. “It was a real eye-opener being in a different country in a state of emergency. I was speaking with a person in our crew who played guitar with the O??ne Big Family Band, his name is Yuichiro Oku, and he said I should write a song and call it ‘Precious Time’ because time is precious.”
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