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Double Barrel is a popular reggae single by Dave and Ansell Collins.
Written and produced by Ansell Collins, and featuring the vocals of Dave Barker, who had been recording in Jamaica for around five years, principally for Clement "Coxsone" Dodd and Lee Perry, it was released in 1971 by executive producer, Winston Riley, former vocalist of The Techniques. It became one of the early breakthrough reggae hits internationally.
The single reached #1 on the UK singles chart for two weeks in April 1971 (where it was credited to Dave and Ansil Collins) and reached the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at #22.
The song has been covered by later Ska acts such as The Selecter and The Specials.
Prashant Pillai (born September 8, 1981) is a music producer and composer from India. His music style has diverse influences and elements of jazz, electronica, funk, world music and more. Pillai is active in promoting new artists and musicians through all his productions for films, documentaries and commercial jingles.
After completing his Sound engineering in Chennai, he went on to work with A.R.Rahman and his associate studios. After a short stint with him, he moved on and settled in Pune, where he started scoring for ad jingles, web sonics, and short films. Pillai considers A.R.Rahman to be his professional guide and mentor.
In early 2004, Pillai got his first break to compose a radio jingle and then went on to compose jingles, for both radio and television consumption.
In the year 2007, Prashant scored music for Bejoy Nambiar's, critically acclaimed short film Rahu where he teamed with singer K. S. Krishnan. Bejoy's uncanny knack of selecting unusual and experimental sounds, resulted in Prashant working on a soundtrack, which he still claims to be his best. Rahu soundtrack features Murtaza and Qadir Khan, sons of the Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. They feature in the soundtrack for the Sufi song, "Betaabi". This song was later used in a Malayalam film City of God.
Vinod K. Jose, or Vinod Kizhakkeparambil Joseph, is an award winning journalist from India. He is currently the Deputy Editor of The Caravan (magazine) published from New Delhi. In 2009, Jose was hired by Delhi Press to re-launch the company's 70-year old title The Caravan, which was discontinued in 1988. In January 2010, The Caravan was successfully re-launched as India's first longform narrative journal. Jose started as a city reporter with The Indian Express in New Delhi in 2001. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in South Asia for the American public radio network, Pacifica Radio from 2002 to 2007. In 2007 he attended the MA program at Columbia Journalism School, New York, where he was a Bollinger Presidential Fellow. He won the 2008 Foreign Press Association award from Carl Bernstein, awarded annually for young journalists in the United States for their outstanding academic and professional achievement. Jose was also the founding editor of Free Press (magazine), a longform investigative magazine published in Malayalam language.
Two brothers with a thirst for the finer things in life deem themselves searching for new means to acquire the capitol to maintain this extravagant lifestyle. Deciding to invade the cities most notorious crime figures during a routine poker game, things don't go as planned. Old mobster legends come alive, guns go from holsters to hands... the only question remaining, whose blood will flood these city streets?
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