Reggae Pool Party | Labor Day, 2024

ABOUT THE MEDITATIONS

Known the world over as Jamaica’s legendary harmony trio, The Meditations captured the hearts of reggae fans around the world. This led to collaborations with Lee Scratch Perry. Scratch, who produced for Bob Marley and the Wailers, asked them to do backup vocals for Punky Reggae Party, featuring Bob on lead vocals. Bob Marley was so pleased with their harmony that he went in search for the group to do more backup vocals for him. It is said by many that “The Meditation is Bob Marley’s favorite group,” which led to Bob requesting harmony and background vocals on songs like "Rastaman Live Up" and "Blackman Redemption." The Meditations harmonic vocals can be heard on some of your favorite tracks such as "Bongo Man" by Jimmy Cliffs and "Mr. Cop" by Gregory Isaacs.

In 1983, Linval Thompson produced The Meditations fourth album No More Friends. On this album, all the lead vocals were sung by Ansel Cridland. Meanwhile, Danny Clarke and Winston Watson later released For The Good Of Man. After some time separated, Ansel began to put the group back together with the release of Return Of The Meditations produced by Ansel in 1993 on Heartbeat record label.

Ansel followed up by producing and releasing Ghetto Knowledge on the Easy Star label in 1999, then Stand In Love on his own label Meditations Music in 2004. As of late he has gone on to collaborate with yet another great, Philip Smart, for his latest album Dangerous Society, which was released jointly by Meditations Music and Philip Smart in 2011. Ansel is a dedicated musician writing, producing and releasing albums, and still touring with the addition of DaddyLion Chandell and Toussaint Webb on harmony. The Meditations released a new album The Meditations & Friends - Smile Again in September 2021.