Ambassa is Italian born bass player and producer Matia
Gobbo, who’s combined Nichola Richard’s vocals with early-80s style dub production.
This is a cover of Aretha's 1965 Columbia recording
"One Step Ahead" which contained a cover of Justine 'Baby' Washington's "I Can't Wait
Until I See My Baby's Face" on the flip which also had several other great
covers which were
featured here.
If you like the reggae/lovers rock vibe there are a couple of other 60s
rare soul covers on the album including Wendy Rene "After The Love Comes
The Tears", The Charmels "As Long as I've Got You", The Delfonics "Ready
or Not Here I Come" later covered by The Fugees along with Donny
Hathaway's Little Ghetto Boy".
Another unreleased reggae version tipped to me by Gary
Van Den Bussche from Ava Leigh
(aka Hayley Carline) who was a UK-based reggae, ska and jazz
singer-songwriter who was signed to Virgin between 2006 and 2010 and
released an album and four singles but retired to bring up children.
I found some grainy vintage footage, presumably from 1964, of Aretha
performing the song and also a couple of mashups that have bene done, one about ten years ago, the other was uploaded to YouTube by Talib Kweli in 2017 which includes him, Mos Def and Prodigy.
There is another version I found which is a jazz version by Cécile McLorin Salvant recorded in 2018.
Ava Leigh - One Step Ahead (Unreleased)
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