Fire goes out beneath a music melting pot
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Fire goes out beneath a music melting pot
The Herald – Mar 13, 2008
advertisementIn 2001 Triptych co-programmed by Neil Mowat and Paul Fegan was the response to a brief put out by the lager brand to extend its Tennent’s Live promotion. As well as the festival’s unusual structure its success was down to innovative programming. Rather than specialising in one area of music it brought influential artists from reggae soul contemporary classical dance and electronic areas together specialising in booking musicians who had rarely if ever visited Scotland and touring them to the three cities over a long weekend. Says Mowat: “Triptych opened up a real seam of programming in Scotland that has attracted artists who have not been here before. But the landscape is entirely different from eight years ago. There is less focus on a genre-led approach to music. People have wider tastes.
The British pop Establishment has shown a long-standing resistance to…
New Statesman – Mar 13, 2008
The principal character in Tippa Irie’s 1985 song “Complain Neighbour” now re-released on the compilation An England Story would have agreed. Tippa Irie one of the UK’s first home-grown reggae MCs recounts the experience of a young black family living next door to a man who hates them and their bass-heavy music. ver a backing track that sits somewhere between Jamaican dancehall and the old theme tune to Grange Hill Tippa Irie switches from patois to a cockney twang as he parodies the man who sits at home “watching Coronation Street and da East-end-ah” after throwing a brick through his neighbours’ window. Not only is it furious funny and celebratory it’s a sharp metaphor for the resistance white mainstream pop has shown to black music in the UK… And if “bling” is everywhere in today’s pop culture it’s got nothing on Glamma Kid who took self-aggrandisement to surreal levels on tracks such as 1995’s “Fashion Magazine”. MC culture in the UK was an outward-looking movement that took on influences from and inspired other cultures. The vocal inflections of ragga found their way into rave music via jungle and drum’n'bass. General Levy later had a number-one hit in 1994 with the jungle act M-Beat and the Birmingham-born Apache Indian mixed ragga with Indian bhangra music (there are nods to these styles on An England Story in “Ruffneck” by Navigator and the Freestylers and in Ty and Roots Manuva’s “So U Want More?”). The early Nineties are often remembered as a musical wasteland but that period actually marked a high point in pop one where working-class urban youths formed a culture that crossed ethnic boundaries without seeking permission from some official arbiter of “Britishness”. It was not to last. Morrissey may have claimed that his comment about reggae was misinterpreted; it nonetheless tapped into a misery-guts revisionist sentiment in the British Establishment that sought to cleanse itself of this immigrant influence and return to an imagined era of “classic” guitar bands: Britpop.
BJ’S CHICAG PIZZERIA 730 Front St. Lahaina 661-0700
Maui News – Mar 13, 2008
to closing Friday and Saturday. LAHAINA?CLERS Dickenson Square 180 Dickenson St. Lahaina 661-7082 Sonny B and Friends live reggae 10 p.
ne is jamming: Charles and Camilla give the bongos a whirl at the…
Daily Mail – Mar 13, 2008
Charles and Camilla were guests of Bob Marley’s widow yesterday at the mansion in Kingston Jamaica which is a shrine to the island’s most famous son. They were on a visit to Jamaica’s capital during their official Caribbean tour… Marley's posthumous compilation album released in 1984 isthe best-selling reggae LP ever with sales of more than 12 millioncopies. Marley was born in the rural Jamaican parish of St Ann in 1945but when a young boy he moved with his mother to Trenchtown apoor area of the Jamaican capital after his father died. He began recording music in the early 1960s and also became aRastafarian – a religious group that worship a former Ethiopianemperor Haile Selassie as a god. Scroll down for more.
Ntsiki Mazwai Gallo Music
Dispatch nline – Mar 13, 2008
nthe hit African Skies Ntsiki dreams of a perfect South Africa devoid of crime and gender equality issues. Ka Nci Nci Mos is a playful tune featuring Khuli from Morafe. I like the Reggae vibe with its catchy hook-phrase. Khuli shows a twist of his SeTswana hip-hop while Ntsiki brings her Xhosa flavour to the song. Also check out Some fathers of these days which talks about fathers who desert their unborn babies. There are other tracks like Qhawekazi that deal with women empowerment. Producer Mahoota and Kwani Experience also make guest appearances.
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