_{Album review by Teacher & Mr. T : All Rights Reserved. © 2000 Reggae Vibes Productions NL}

Additional Review :
To note the influence of Burning Spear on Daweh Congo's vocals is kind of like saying Lucky Dube sings like Peter Tosh - it doesn't tell the whole story. Congo is the son of Jamaican singer Leo Graham, who cut some wicked '70s singles like "Perilous Time". "A Win Them" and "Not Giving Up" for Joe Gibbs and a series of burning "Big Tongue Busters" (the name of one of them) for now-legendary producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. "Militancy" is Daweh Congo's first album and though he and it may evoke the spirit of those singers he's developed a sound of his own. Produced by X-Rated Records' Barry O'Hare and recorded at Grove Studio in Ocho Rios (with one track "In America" - of course - in Holland) it's the juxtaposition of Congo's older-than-his-years baritone with the (can I yet say) late '90s X-Rated sound that makes these recordings exciting. Cuts like "Jah Call Them", "Study Garvey" and "Coconut Chalice" move an element of '70s reggae two decades forward to gain relevance in our time. But what makes a cut like "No Peace" so modern is precisely the way it digitally reconstructs a pounding, dub-based rhythm that could easily pass for twice its age without flashing ID. Daweh Congo has clearly mapped out some interesting territory for himself and it will be worth to see where he goes from here.

_{Album review by Chuck Foster, published in The Beat Vol. 16 #5/6, 1997.}