TRUE to his world view, poet Yasus Afari’s latest album Ancient Future was live on iTunes before its launch and listening party at Bookophilia at Hope Road, St Andrew, on Monday.

It is Afari’s seventh album and his first digital release. Zojak World Wide, the largest digital distributor of reggae, will market ancient future.

“My entire catalogue is now digital because we have to stay relevant and make our music available,” Afari told the Jamaica Observer.

Ancient Future has also been released on compact disc.

The 16-track set features the duets Light You Light with Toots and the Maytals and Rise Up which was done with Samoa-born rapper King Kapisi.

Saxophonist Dean Fraser, keyboardist Gladstone Anderson and guitarist Daniel ‘Danny Axeman’ Thompson are some of the musicians featured on Ancient Future.

Monifa Hylton, a director at Zojak World Wide, spoke of the significance of ancient future’s digital release.

“It is going to be available with everyone, but we always put iTunes first. iTunes is in 27 countries and 23 languages and in 16 countries in South America now,” she said. “Zojak was very instrumental in assisting iTunes to get reggae music onto the South American sites. It started January 1 and should be completed by June,” Hylton added.