“Red Sea” is an album by Augustus Pablo released in 1998, containing material recorded between 1970 and 1973. It was produced by Herman Chin Loy. Chin Loy is a Chinese Jamaican record producer who co-owned the Aquarius Record Store at Halfway Tree with his half-brother Lloyd A. Chin Loy in 1969.
The music on the album is among the earliest instances of Pablo’s revolutionary use of the melodica as a viable musical instrument. Chin Loy is often credited as being an influential figure in the discovery and nurturing of Pablo’s talent. He was the first to record Horace Swaby, whose recordings, like those of other keyboard players who recorded for Chin Loy, were released under the name Augustus Pablo, the success of Swaby’s releases causing the name to stick.
Chin Loy was responsible for one of the first dub albums, Aquarius Dub, released in 1973, and mixed at Dynamic studio by Chin Loy himself. In the 1970s, Lloyd A. Chin Loy built the first 24-track recording studio in the Caribbean. Now on Limited Red Vinyl..