Count Ossie
Oswald "Count Ossie" Williams was a Rastafari drummer who led a Kingston-based hand-drumming ensemble that helped fuse Nyabinghi drumming with Jamaican popular music in the late 1950s, backing the Folkes Brothers on the influential 1959 single "Oh Carolina." As leader of the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, his 1973 album Grounation and 1975's Tales of Mozambique are regarded as landmark recordings that carried Rastafari spirituality and rhythm into reggae's foundations. He died in a car accident in 1976.
the sound in question
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Tales of MozambiqueCount Ossie
we haven’t charted Count Ossie yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.