Live Dub Instrumentals
2025
From their roots at Toronto’s legendary Bamboo Club to big ticket festivals, this collection of live instrumental board mixes spans their 30 year career, showcasing Andru Branch & Halfway Tree’s musical prowess as one of Canada’s most beloved and enduring reggae bands. “This is indeed real reggae music.” ~ Tom Orr, World Music Central
This album is free for all to enjoy. All rights reserved by the original composers.
Live In Wolfville
2024
Andru Branch & Halfway Tree live in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, on July 27, 2024. Presented by Deep Roots Music Cooperative. “The seven-piece roots collective pack an authentic punch, an earthy sensibility and an ear for hypnotic dub grooves...Branch and crew nail the technical, spiritual and music elements of an instrumental sound that both entrances and inspires.” ~ Exclaim! Magazine
Weather The Dub
2023
Andru Branch & Halfway Tree's critically acclaimed 2021 album Weather The Storm gets the full dub treatment by masterful sound engineer Dartanyan Winston. Weather The Dub features 10 original tracks plus bonus track "Always On My Mind" by Carlton Dinnall.
Weather The Storm
2021
Championing the preservation of authentic roots reggae music and the timeless message of peace, love and unity, Weather The Storm combines poignant lyrics, haunting melodies, sumptuous harmonies and hypnotic grooves with powerful horn lines, reminiscent of the golden age of reggae. Branch implores humanity to cling to life in a time of desperation with Floydian precision. "Weather The Storm is a real triumph in style and tradition...it features a poetry and structure that stands in true homage of roots reggae’s best." ~ The East Magazine
We Are Dub
2021
Starring Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Chris Meredith and Studio One legend Brian "Bassie" Atkinson, Andru Branch & Halfway Tree's much-anticipated second dub album is a collection of dub versions spanning 25 years of recordings.
Andru Branch sings Bob Marley
2021
FREE DOWNLOAD! This compilation of rare live recordings features the illustrious Halfway Tree reggae band performing some of Bob Marley's legendary anthems.
"We imitate our heroes until we find our own voice." ~ Andru Branch
The Singles
2020
“Canadian reggae pioneer Andru Branch has collected a quarter century of his finest recordings into a stunning new album called The Singles. Among the millions who have responded to the call of Jamaica's influential music, few have made of their obsession art as fine as this. With frequent trips to the island itself, collaborating with some of the key musicians in Kingston's studios, Branch has amassed a body of work that stands with the best of them. Positive and constructive, harmonic and infectious, it's the perfect soundtrack for these troubled times.” ~ Roger Steffens, author and reggae historian
Step Into The Dub
2017
"Andru Branch & Halfway Tree show clear influence from the Wailers, Burning Spear and Lee "Scratch" Perry on tracks like "Dub Is the Word", "Best Friend Dub" and the title track...Branch and crew nail the technical, spiritual and music elements of an instrumental sound that both entrances and inspires." ~ Exclaim! Magazine
Step Into The Light
2012
Awarded "Inspirational Recording of the Year" at the 2012 Music Nova Scotia Awards, this original album by Andru Branch & Halfway Tree was also nominated for "World Recording of the Year" at the East Coast Music Awards in 2013.
The Only Constant
2008
"Some of the rootsiest bottom heavy music ever to come out of the Great White North. The Only Constant, Branch's second outing, is nothing less than stunning...Andru Branch will quickly find himself on his way to becoming one of Canada's top reggae artists." ~ Exclaim! Magazine