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New York Times – Mar 28, 2008
His music stays restrained ever tasteful. He sings gently in his own meticulous productions and his songs can share radio formats with the most soothing soft-rock. He’s more than welcome at established institutions like the… Simon had to find a looser more colloquial voice and he did at times on Simon and Garfunkel’s later albums and decisively on his 1972 album “Paul Simon” with irresistible but not quite explicable songs like “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard. ”“Paul Simon” — which included a song recorded with reggae musicians in Jamaica (“Mother and Child Reunion”) before most Americans were aware of reggae and one with the French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli in Paris (“Hobo’s Blues”) — was also a harbinger of Mr. Simon’s worldwide musical itinerary. In a way he is a consummate New Yorker representing a city where innumerable cultures brush up against one another. Actually “Paul Simon” wasn’t his first batch of travel souvenirs. He lived in England in 1964 and played the folk-club circuit there picking up traditional songs and learning from musicians like the singer Martin Carthy and the guitarist Davy Graham.
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Caribbean Net News – Mar 28, 2008
The focus of the article was whether it was okay for reggae singers to “bash” gay people in their music; however she brought up religion as a way and a means to prove her point. Essentially she is saying that reggae performers should not be censored when it comes to speaking out against homosexuals even though some of the things they say are violent in nature. ur experience with the shift in reggae music (namely Dance Hall reggae) is that it feeds the sexually immoral lifestyle of the world. A person who is gay is spiritually no different than someone who is sexually promiscuous. In fact for those who understand spiritual things the unclean spirit that manifests homosexuality is the same spirit that manifests sleeping around and sex before marriage which collectively is called whoredom and whoremongering. We don’t hear too many reggae singers speaking about the virtues of virginity and the sanctity of marriage; rather it’s more about the volume of women and how much they want some beautiful “African Queen”. Even the so-called gospel reggae artists who use Dance Hall rhythms are just mixing a sound with “christian” lyrics.
Caribbean dance troupe to spread love in performance
SU The Daily range – SU The Daily range (subscription) – Mar 28, 2008
is only four hours away she still gets nostalgic about home-cooked Jamaican jerk chicken and bootlegged reggae music. But this weekend the Kalabash Dance Troupe will bring some of Allen’s Caribbean history to her in Central New York. Kalabash the only Caribbean dance group at Syracuse University will perform its innovative Caribbean dance tonight at 6:30 p. at Goldstein Auditorium.
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