Matumbi

Matumbi was a British reggae bands active during the 1970s and early 1980s remembered as the first successful band of guitarist and record producer Dennis Bovell. Their style was soulful and melodic. Great Britain has produced several great roots bands -- Steel Pulse, Aswad, Misty In Roots, and Black Slate among them but Matumbi is one of the earliest and most influential. They formed in 1971 in London at a time when roots music in Jamaica itself was just entering its prime.