Bonjo I A Binghi Noah and Adrian Sherwood first worked together on live shows with Prince Fari and Creation Rebel in the late 1979/1980 period. Bonjo I had come to England from Jamaica. He was raised in the hills in a rasta community and was a percussionist since childhood. He studied not only Rasta drums but also African, Afro Cuban Rhythms and he loved to experiment.

1981 saw the release of Brian Eno’s ‘My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’. Upon hearing the Eno album Adrian then read an interview with him where he talked of “having a vision of a psychedelic Africa”. This fascinated Adrian and along with Bonjo I and some other musicians started some experimental recordings in an underground (literally) studio called Berry Street in Clerkenwell, London. These recordings resulted in “My Life in a Hole in the Ground” 1981/2.

The title was poking fun at Eno’s title and us a the same time as we were sopending most of our lives in the studio beneath the city streets. We the named the studio band African Head Charge as it seemed to fit the concept inspired by Brian Eno.

Three more experiemental studio albums followed ‘Environmental Studies’, ‘Drastic Season’ and ‘Off the Beaten Track’ before African Head Charge became a proper gigging band.

The live shows were excellent and featured Perry Melius on drums (Tricky), Wayne Nunes on bass, Zap on keyboards (Eddie Grant) and Renee (Dub Syndicate/Ijahman) on guitar fronted by band leader Bonjo I A Binghi Noah.

This band alongside co-producer Skip McDonald (Little Axe, Sugarhill & Tackhead) worked on the band’s final two studio albums with Adrian Sherwood – ‘Songs of Praise’ in 1991 and ‘In Pursuit of Shashamane Land’ in 1993.

In 1994 Bonjo I left London and moved to Ghana where he still lives now. The dream of every Rastaman is to move back to Africa. Bonjo fulfilled his dream and as far as African Head Charge goes the first album for over a decade is now due for release. Regarded as the finest album ever it is called, not surprisingly ‘Vision of Psychedelic Africa’.