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Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare aka Sly & Robbie aka “The Riddim Twins” a prolific rhythm section and production duo are one of the most celebrated session musicians who have played on and estimated 200K plus songs. The combination of Dunbar’s nimble drumming and Shakespeare’s driving and melodic bass have melded to create one of the most distinct sounds in recorded music. They are an integral part of the history of Jamaican music having worked with legendary musicians like Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Dennis Brown and Black Uhuru. Where their influence comes into play for us is when Chris Blackwell of Island Records made them the core of the Compass Point All Stars at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas in late 1979 and early 1980 playing on the three most important post-disco albums by our hero Grace Jones: “Warm Leatherette” “NightClubbing” and ‘‘Living My Life”. Sly recalls “ Chris Blackwell called us up to his apartment. He was saying that he had this Jamaican disco singer, so he gave us some albums she had done before, but we didn’t listen to them… in fact, I haven’t listened to it as yet! He said he’s trying to get a set of musicians together, so we pick Mikey Chung and Sticky, went to Nassau, but nobody knew what we were going to do.” We picked their album “Language Barrier” as the title of this piece using the cover of the album as the front and a photo still taken from the Grace Jones’ long form music video “One Man Show” by designer Jean-Paul Goode which links both the musicians and the artist.