But in Moving Away the bass-line shows the influence of music from a different part of the world – reggae, originally from Jamaica. In this video clip, the bassist Andy McLean shows how the reggae feel comes into the music.
And as Andy stops short of explaining, the roots of reggae are in the traditional music of Africa. When Africans were taken as slaves to central America, including Jamaica, and the southern states of North America, they took their musical heritage with them.
