Award-winning and Juno-nominated Canadian recording artists Andru Branch & Halfway Tree release their much-anticipated fourth full-length album on Friday, October 8, 2021 featuring a star-studded Album Launch at The Marquee Ballroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Andru Branch & Halfway Tree's much-anticipated second dub album is a collection of dub versions, spanning their 25 year recording career. Starring "Family Man" Barrett, Chris Meredith and Studio One legend Brian Atkinson, the album features three of Jamaica's top reggae bass players of all time!
FREE DOWNLOAD! This compilation of rare live recordings features the outstanding Halfway Tree reggae band performing some of Bob Marley's legendary anthems.
"We imitate our heroes until we find our own voice." ~ Andru Branch
DOWNLOAD FREE! "Power To The People" is a commentary on the socio-political climate leading up to the 2020 US Presidential election. It is a reminder that the outcome of this election will effect socio-economics around the world. We are all interconnected and as such we must vote responsibly to ensure equal rights and justice for all. One Universal Love.
All proceeds of this 25th Anniversary collectors' edition are being donated directly to The Themba Project https://www.facebook.com/groups/2263899875/ to feed desperate South Africans in this time of crisis. 'The Singles' is a compilation of Andru Branch's singles, recorded between 1996 and 2020. "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
DOWNLOAD FREE the first single off Andru Branch & Halfway Tree's forthcoming album "Weather The Storm" featuring Andrew Brown on bass, Teddy Skiffington on drums, Johnny Parker on guitar, Seth Voliere on guitar, Andru Branch on keyboards, percussion and tenor saxophone, Andrew Jackson on trombone, Myles Cornish on trumpet, Jhamiela Smith and Kristine Kovacevic on backing vocals.
"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
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, 2013.
"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
“You can hear it when he sings and read it in his lyrics, songs of peace and unity in the spirit of the late Bob Marley…Halfway Tree sings the kind of songs that are missing in today’s mass market.” - The Town Crier, Toronto