Album Notes

'Live Up' is a concert album running 57 minutes with IRIE TIME performing songs from their prior albums, as well as new ones.
[High energy Reggae and Soca!]


IRIE TIME - Irie (pronounced 'eye-ree') is a Jamaican patois word that means 'feeling great', and IRIE TIME's music has been described as "a blend of reggae, soca and dub grooves that is just about as refreshing as a bottle of Ting grapefruit soda on a sweltering Trenchtown summer day." [The Houston Press] However, it's their unique combining of the elements of ambient, rock, dub, and fusion, with solid Caribbean rhythms, that is drawing audiences to their sound.

IRIE TIME, on their own Inherent Music label, is now officially releasing their fifth original CD entitled 'Live Up'. The concert album showcases the band of culturally-diverse musicians performing new songs, as well as songs from their four prior CDs. The group was recently dubbed "one of America's leading exponents of roots rock reggae" by the international world music publication, The Beat magazine.

Tracks from the band's prior Island Romance CD were recorded in Kingston, Jamaica and were produced by legendary guitarist Earl 'Chinna' Smith of Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, and the Wailers band. A collection of IRIE TIME's songs entitled Reggae Hits Volume 1, along with two videos, were released nationally throughout the country of New Guinea, where the band's popularity has spread to the Pacific Rim and Hawaii.

Internationally recognized, IRIE TIME has licensed records as far away as New Guinea, recorded album tracks in Jamaica, and toured in Europe.

For more information, go to www.IRIETIME.com. Industry inquiries please email Scottie McDonald at scottie@irietime.com. (Say "I'-ree!")


Editorial review:
"Most enjoyable; good fusion music, with elements of American melodic richness, with rootical vibes from yard [Jamaica].."
-- Roger Steffens, co-founder of The Beat magazine and Bob Marley musicologist