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Mojo Morgan Delivers Captivating New Release ‘Jamaica Love EP’

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8 months ago

August 29, 2025

Mojo Morgan’s Jamaica Love EP is a testament to a career built on heritage, ambition, and boundary-pushing creativity. Born into the legendary Morgan Heritage family, Mojo steps out of the shadow of roots reggae royalty to craft a sound uniquely his own—a genre-defying fusion he calls “Rasta Rock.” Across the EP’s eight tracks, he marries reggae, rock, soul, hip-hop, and country influences into something that feels both deeply personal and globally resonant.

The opening track, When The Father Calls, immediately signals the spiritual grounding of the project, invoking reverence and ancestral wisdom while establishing Mojo’s willingness to experiment. Mountain Song, a collaboration with his brother Gramps and son Esh, is the heart of the EP, blending gospel harmonies, acoustic soul, and reggae roots into a crossover-ready anthem that is poised for both radio play and festival main stages. It’s a song that affirms Mojo’s mission: music as a message of hope, legacy, and family.

Guest appearances are used to maximum effect, with Popcaan, Sizzla, Chronic Law, and Maino each adding texture and contemporary relevance. Yet it’s Mojo’s own artistry that holds the project together, demonstrating both his roots in Jamaican tradition and his daring to push into new sonic territories. By My Side and Dreams showcase his capacity for tender lyricism without sacrificing momentum, while tracks like Make It highlight his flair for anthemic hooks.

Production across the EP is polished yet organic, with each track balancing layered instrumentation and modern rhythmic sensibilities. Mojo’s voice—a warm, resonant baritone—anchors the diverse soundscapes, providing cohesion amidst stylistic leaps. It’s clear that Jamaica Love was crafted with both the casual listener and the reggae connoisseur in mind, offering accessibility without diluting authenticity.

By the EP’s close, Mojo Morgan has not only paid homage to his family’s iconic legacy but has established himself as a visionary force in contemporary reggae fusion. Jamaica Love is a bold, heartfelt statement: a project that bridges past and present while leaving room for the future of “Rasta Rock” to thrive. It’s celebratory, spiritual, and uncompromising—a record that deserves both attention and acclaim.

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Michele Ducci teases new album with uplifting indie single ‘Woman Like You’

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1 day ago

April 17, 2026

Don Reed

Michele Ducci has unveiled the second single, ‘Woman Like You’, from his forthcoming album and animated film ‘Snail in the Clouds’.

‘Woman Like You’ pairs bright distorted electric guitar with an electronic drumbeat, adding in Ducci’s soulful vocals and a catchy uplifting chorus with Letizia Mandoleisi’s sweet vocal harmonies. A vintage organ pedalboard operated by Ducci simultaneously generates chords, bass and rhythm, like a one-man band. Shane Kennedy (Girl in the Year Above) joins in on guitar. Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) recorded and produced the track at his 4am Studios in London.

The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.

The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Mandoleisi, delves further into the realm of planet ‘Snail’:

Says Ducci, “The ark of melodies, after various attempts, finally starts to work and fly in the planet Snail, while the shady Doc. Sub. and Agostos, with their platoon of soldiers made of foggy smoke, spy the miracle, planning to steal the ark for their evil and tyrannical purposes.”

About the track, Michele says, “I wrote this song for my love Letizia. Love seen from the mind is the sound we make. Sound is the love of matter.

We used a Technics synthesizer organ from a flea market. I tried to find a mood that was right for the song and I started using the bass of the pedal board together with the synth and the drums, and it was magical to hear the song reveal itself all coming from a single instrument. Leti was singing with me and we recorded everything live in one shot. Then we made Shane do the guitar flight, as if he came out of the window. The idea was to maintain disproportions, guitar thrust and synth drum thinness a la Haroumi Hosono, so as to create an estrangement, but naturally: it’s about how I listen, with close up something that captures me in its nuance as element of a larger orchestra somewhere. I’m glad we decided in the studio with Simon to use the layers of arrangement as the close-ups in the cinema; they look like strange enlargements that perch on parts of a mutated orchestra. I’m happy to come back with this love song at a time when everything seems to opt, even my labor in managing the flows of selfishness that have poured out on me while doing this album, for the sound of war. I’m here happy to be able to say that the sound of love always wins as did for me. Snail in the clouds is one of the most important works in my life and I am glad to start from pure love for this album that is my son.”

The album and full-length film will be released on the 5^th of June on Monotreme Records.

Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.