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Matt Werth of Rvng Intl. has pulled a couple lobby residencies with us at Ace Hotel New York, and we’re excited to announce his film ICON EYE premieres Saturday at Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan, 1pm.

At the end of a sun-bleached stone & gravel alley in Portmore, St. Catherine, Jamaica are the headquarters and studio of The Congos, the dub reggae vocal group responsible for the eternally burning album Heart of the Congos. It’s here that I travelled alongside Los Angeles musicians Cameron Stallones (Sun Araw) & M. Geddes Gengras and New York filmmakers Tony Lowe & Sam Fleischner to creatively commune with The Congos on both sights & sounds of the most universal variety, and the film is the visual component to the collaborative album that is ICON GIVE THANK album, a dream-like companion piece to an album of intergenerational communion and creation.