Afreeka Riddim – Amoul Bayi Records

Afreeka Riddim by Amoul Bayi Records came out in 2022 with eight reggae cuts and seven different artists, keeping the focus on conscious African-rooted messages. Amoul Bayi Records, the Senegal-based label behind the project, has long described its work around uplifting reggae, and that spirit runs through this set from Dread Max’s Unity, Freedom and Work and Saah Karim’s Keep on Moving On to Empress Celyah’s Repatria? ? o, JahMicheal’s Royal from Way Back When, and Romeij Mc’s Babylone est Tomb? e. Rootical45 also brings two versions, Afreeka Dub and Afreeka Kora Riddim, which helps give the release a deeper dub-and-roots feel. The whole riddim leans toward a warm, pan-African mood, with the title track concept tying the vocal performances and instrumental cuts together into one steady message of resilience and return.