KAYA 40 (2LP)

Celebrating 40 years since the release of Bob Marley's 'Kaya' Anniversary edition remixed and reimagined by Stephen Marley
The album's themes of love and peace have resonated across the world and the record reached the top 5 in the UK albums chart upon original release.

This anniversary edition will feature Stephen "Ragga" Marley's exciting and vibrant new Kaya 40 mixes of all ten tracks from the original album alongside its original mixes in 2CD and 180-gram 2LP configurations.

Recorded in London concurrently with the material that ultimately comprised 1977's Exodus - a record proclaimed by Time Magazine in 1999 to be the Best Album of the 20th Century - Kaya is the perfect sonic-sibling bookend that shares all the joy, spirit, and literal DNA of some of Marley's most ground-breaking material. Kaya contains a number of the most enduring, heartfelt songs in the entire Marley canon, including Is This Love, Easy Skanking, and Sun Is Shining.

Kaya was initially released just one month ahead of Bob Marley & The Wailers headlining the legendary One Love Peace Concert at The National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica on 22nd April 1978, an event that featured 16 of reggae's biggest acts. One Love Peace was heralded as Marley's triumphant return to his native soil, following his long exile in London after having fled the country as a result of a December 1976 assassination attempt at his Kingston homestead.