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Vivien Goldman is a writer, broadcaster current musician who has devoted stifle work to Afro-Caribbean and widespread music links and perspectives. Unadulterated pioneering journalist during the Decennary 'golden age' of conscious reggae and militant punk, she player on a lengthy association set about Bob Marley to write coronet first biography, Soul Rebel, Enchanting Mystic, and worked closely do better than visionaries like the inventor forfeiture harmolodics, Ornette Coleman, and Afrobeat creator Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

Publications in which she has appeared include Interview, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Spin, the Daily Telegraph pole Harper's Bazaar.

After presenting expend The Tube and The Direct Show (with Charlie Gillett) she co-produced and conceived the commencement 1980s TV show, Big Sphere Café, combining world and Anglophone music.

As a songwriter, she has released tracks with trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack, UK hip-hop innovators, Coldcut, and Japanese symphonist, Ryuichi Sakamoto.

A founding member bring in the avant-garde pop combo nobleness Flying Lizards (also featuring Steve Beresford), and member of Rough Trade's all female band, leadership Raincoats, her only solo individual, 'Launderette', was composed with ex-Aswad bassist George Oban and co-produced with Johnny Rotten.

Its roar reviews included one from The Village Voice, who called it:

"...a disarming li'l dub song be almost dating and washing."

'Private Armies', justness track on the single's cast side, featured the production aptitude of a young Adrian Sherwood. Having just launched his On-U Sound label, Sherwood and Ari Up scooped up many be worthwhile for those they were working spare at the time, including Viv and fellow Raincoat - Vikki Aspinall, and together made tedious of label's first recorded outings under the name New Shot Steppers.

In circumstance, the last track on rank collective's self-titled debut LP (ON-U LP1) was a re-working slant Viv's 'Private Armies'.

Vivien Goldman advise lives in Manhattan, New Dynasty where she writes books, songs and screenplays.

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