African Head Charge is a dub reggae, psychedelic dub ensemble active since the early 1980s. The group was formed by percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, and featured a revolving cast of members, including, at times, Prisoner, Crocodile, Junior Moses, Sunny Akpan, Skip McDonald, and Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums...

. The group released most of its albums on Adrian Sherwood

Adrian Sherwood

Adrian Sherwood is an English record producer best known for his work with dub music as well as for remixing a number of popular acts such as Coldcut, Depeche Mode, The Woodentops, Primal Scream, Pop Will Eat Itself, Sinéad O'Connor, and Skinny Puppy...

's label, On-U Sound.

Many of their early albums have been re-released as double album

Double album

A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

s on CD.

Discography

• My Life in a Hole in the Ground (On-U Sound, 1981)
• Environmental Studies (On-U Sound, 1982)
• Drastic Season (On-U Sound, 1983)
• Off the Beaten Track (On-U Sound, 1986 Anthology Recordings
  Anthology Recordings
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  , 2006)
• Great Vintage Volumes 1 & 2 (On-U Sound, 1989) (compilation)
• Songs of Praise (On-U Sound, 1990)
• Live:Pride and Joy (On-U Sound, 1991)
• In Pursuit of Shashamane Land (On-U Sound, ON-U LP65, 1993)
• All Mighty Dread (Beat Records
  Beat Records
  Beat Records was an independent record label started by California night club promoter Stephen Zepeda . Beat Records had record releases by Gary Valentine Lachman , The Furys, and The Plimsouls . It spanned the 1978 to 1980 time period of Los Angeles rock...
  
  , 1994) (compilation)
• Touch I EP (On-U Sound, 1994)
• Akwaaba (Acid Jazz Records
  Acid Jazz Records
  Acid Jazz is a record label based in east London. It takes its name from acid jazz, a genre of jazz music. Alternative version states that the genre itself was named after the record label...
  
  , 1995)
• Sankofa (Bonjo I, 1997)
• Noah House of Dread (Bonjo I, 1998)
• Live Goodies (Bonjo I, 2001)
• Shrunken Head (On-U Sound, 2003) (compilation)
• Vision of a Psychedelic Africa (On-U Sound, 2005)
• In Charge:Live in Japan EP (On-U Sound, 2005)
• Voodoo of The Godsent (On-U Sound, 2011)

External links

• [ African Head Charge] at Allmusic.com
• Discography at unofficial On-U Sound website
• Profile at unofficial On-U Sound website
• African Head Charge - Off the Beaten Track on AnthologyRecordings.com