Chill Out is an album by reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 band Black Uhuru

Black Uhuru

Black Uhuru are a Jamaican reggae group formed in 1972, initially as Uhuru . The group has undergone several line-up changes over the years, with Duckie Simpson always maintaining group control and ownership...

, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music

1982 in music

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). The album was recorded at Channel One Studios

Channel One Studios

Channel One is a recording studio in Maxfield Avenue, West Kingston, Jamaica. The studio was built by the Hoo Kim brothers in 1972, and has had a profound influence on the development of reggae music....

 in Jamaica

Jamaica

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 and produced

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 by Sly & Robbie. Featuring The Revolutionaries

The Revolutionaries

The Revolutionaries is a Jamaican reggae band.-Career:Set up in 1975 as the house band of the Channel One Studios owned by Joseph Hoo Kim, The Revolutionaries with Sly Dunbar on drums and Robbie Shakespeare on bass, created the new "rockers" style that would change the whole Jamaican sound The...

, an influential session group, Chill Out, together with its dub companion The Dub Factor, is widely considered a classic of reggae music.

Chill Out peaked at #146 on Billboard's (North America) Pop Albums chart.

Track listing

Personnel

• Wally Badarou
  Wally Badarou
  Wally Badarou is a musician from Benin.-Biography:A synthesiser specialist, Badarou was the longtime associate of the British band Level 42, known for its blend of funk, pop, soul and rock...
  
  - Synthesizer, Vocoder
• Barry Reynolds - Guitar on "Wicked Act"
• Ansel Collins
  Dave and Ansell Collins
  Dave and Ansell Collins were a Jamaican vocal/instrumental duo .-History:...
  
  - Piano, Keyboards
• Radcliff "Dougie" Bryan - Guitar
• Mikey Chung
  Mikey Chung
  Born Michael Chung in 1954, Mikey "Mao" Chung is a keyboard, guitar and percussion player, arranger and record producer of Jamaican music.-Biography:...
  
  - Guitar
• Sly Dunbar
  Sly Dunbar
  Lowell "Sly" Fillmore Dunbar is a drummer.-Biography:Dunbar, whose nickname was reportedly given for his passion for Sly & the Family Stone, launched his musical career while still in his adolescence, playing with a local group, The Yardbrooms, at the age of fifteen...
  
  - Drums, Syndrums, Arranger, Producer, Mixer
• Lynn Goldsmith
  Lynn Goldsmith
  Lynn Goldsmith is an American recording artist, a film director and a celebrity portrait photographer. Her work has appeared on the covers and in publications in many countries for the past 35 years. She has done over 100 album covers...
  
  - Photography
• Bruce Hamilton - Engineer
• Puma Jones
  Puma Jones
  Sandra "Puma" Jones was an American singer, best known for her involvement with the Grammy Award-winning group, Black Uhuru....
  
  - Harmony vocals
• Chris "Sky Juice" Blake - Percussion
• Robert Lyn - Piano
• Bertram "Ranchie" McLean - Rhythm guitar, organ
• Michael Rose - Vocals
• Robbie Shakespeare - Bass guitar, Arranger, Producer, Mixer
• Derrick "Duckie" Simpson - Harmony vocals
• Steven Stanley
  Steven Stanley
  Steven J. C. Stanley , is a Jamaican audio engineer, record producer and keyboardist who has worked in the reggae, dub and rock music genres since 1975, most notably with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and Black Uhuru....
  
  - Engineer, Mixer
• Uziah "Sticky" Thompson
  Uziah Thompson
  Uziah "Sticky" Thompson is a Jamaican percussionist, vocalist and deejay active since the late 1950s. He has worked with some of the best known performers of Jamaican music and played on hundreds of albums.-Biography:...
  
  - Percussion
• Neville Garrick
  Neville Garrick
  Neville Garrick is a Jamaican-born Los Angeles-based graphic artist, photographer, filmmaker, and writer.He is best known for creating the art work for many Bob Marley album covers. He has also worked with Burning Spear, Steel Pulse and many others...
  
  - Design