Alpha And Omega are a roots

Roots reggae

Roots reggae is a subgenre of reggae that deals with the everyday lives and aspirations of the artists concerned, including the spiritual side of Rastafari and with the honoring of God, called Jah by rastafarians. It also is identified with the life of the ghetto sufferer, and the rural poor...

 dub

Dub music

Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...

 duo that mix both analogue and digital elements, comprising bassist

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 Christine Woodbridge and keyboard player John Sprosen, both of whom had played in reggae bands previously, Sprosen also having worked with the Roaring Lion Sound System. They began working together in the mid-1980s, splitting their time between their home towns of London

London

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 and Plymouth

Plymouth

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, and issued their debut home-recorded cassette in 1988. They were picked up by Greensleeves Records

Greensleeves Records

Greensleeves Records & Publishing is a record label specialising in dancehall and reggae music. The company was founded by Chris Cracknell and Chris Sedgwick and started as a small record store in West Ealing, London, in November 1975 and is based in Britain....

, who acted as a parent company to the duo's A&O label, and also worked with Jah Shaka

Jah Shaka

Jah Shaka has been operating a South East London-based, roots reggae Jamaican sound system since the early 1970s. His name is an amalgamation of the Rastafarian term for God and that of a Zulu warrior, Shaka Zulu.-Career:...

, for whom they supplied rhythm tracks. Although they are strongly influenced by artists such as Lee "Scratch" Perry, King Tubby

King Tubby

King Tubby was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s...

 and Augustus Pablo

Augustus Pablo

Horace Swaby , known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He popularized the use of the melodica in reggae music...

, they have developed a sound that has been described as "uniquely British". In a review of their Mystical Things album, Rick Anderson, writing for Allmusic, wrote: "This prolific London-based duo is responsible for some of the most convincing old-school reggae to come from the first world."

Discography

• Almighty Jah (1988) A&O (Alpha & Omega meet Dub Judah)
• Everyday Life (1988) A&O
• Watch & Pray (1988) A&O
• Safe in the Ark (1988) A&O/(1993) Greensleeves
  Greensleeves Records
  Greensleeves Records & Publishing is a record label specialising in dancehall and reggae music. The company was founded by Chris Cracknell and Chris Sedgwick and started as a small record store in West Ealing, London, in November 1975 and is based in Britain....
  
  
• Daniel in the Lion's Den (1990) A&O
• King & Queen (1991) A&O
• Overstanding (1991) A&O
• Watch and Pray (1992) A&O/Greensleeves
• The Signs (1994) Buback (Alpha & Omega meets The Iries)
• Dubplate Selection Volume 1 (1995) A&O/Greensleeves
• Sound System Dub (1995) ROIR
  ROIR
  ROIR , or Reach Out International Records, is a New York City-based record label founded in 1979 by Neil Cooper.ROIR was founded the same year that the Sony Walkman launched, and initially, the label exclusively distributed its releases in cassette format...
  
  (compilation)
• Voice In The Wilderness (1996) Greensleeves
• Dubplate Selection Volume 2 (1997) A&O
• The Sacred Art Of Dub (1998) Greensleeves (Alpha & Omega Meets The Disciples)
• Dub Magic (1999) Zion
• Mystical Things (2000) BSI
• Dub Philosophy (2001) BSI
• Show Me a Purpose Versions (2001) Hammerbass
• Serious Joke (2001) A&O
• Spirit of the Ancients (2003) A&O
• Legend of A&O
• Tree Of Life
• Trample The Eagle And The Dragon And The Bear (2005) A&O
• City Of Dub (2006) A&O
• Songs From The Holy Mountain