An important, historic slice of the music business, Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes film ((2019, 84 mins) premieres in NYC at The Bronx Music Hall on Saturday, February 1 at 6 PM. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Reshma B., Carl Malcolm, Pat McKay and Studio 17 Producer Clive Chin.
The film documents a newly discovered treasure trove of tapes from Studio 17/Randy’s Records in downtown Kingston Jamaica. It’s the remarkable story about a Chinese Jamaican family in the early 1960s who helped create reggae music. Formed by the Chins, Randy’s Records started as a used record store, then grew to house a reggae studio
for artists including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Peter Tosh, Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown and many more. The film a features archival photos and footage as well as compelling interviews with musicians from the golden age of reggae. It chronicles Randy’s Records chronicles from a “watering hole for Jamaican musicians” in the first days of the country’s independence from Britain in 1962 to its shuttering during the crime wave of the 1970s to remarkable rebirth.
For more information and tickets ($15), click here.
The Bronx Music Hall is located at 438 East 163rd Street, Bronx, NY
