Grammy reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry Lights Up At Los Angeles …
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- Grammy reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry Lights Up At Los Angeles …
- Roger Steffens & Peter Simon’s Reggae Scrapbook
- Hasidic star Matisyahu saving reggae with new disc
- Reggae Singer With a Legacy a Following and a Mission
Grammy reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry Lights Up At Los Angeles …
Examiner.com
Perry has released over fifty albums an amazing feat in itself. Having started working in the music business back in the Fifties Perry’s first record was 1961’s “Chicken Scratch. ” Perry’s first hit “People Funny Boy” released in 1968 on his Upsetter label was instrumental in helping shape what would become known as reggae music.
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Roger Steffens & Peter Simon’s Reggae Scrapbook
Music Box
Much as its title suggests the collection is designed to look like a scrapbook and each page is filled with entertaining diversions such as stickers envelopes full of facsimile newspaper clippings old 45 sleeves and reproductions of Jamaican postcards. A DVD featuring insightful interviews from Steffens’ groundbreaking radio show is also included. Fans who are looking for a more academic history of reggae would perhaps be better off reading Lloyd Bradley’s exhaustive This Is Reggae Music or David Katz’s Solid Foundation: An ral History of Reggae. For those who enjoy good photography and appealing design however Reggae Scrapbook offers a wonderfully entertaining journey through the history of Jamaican popular music.
Hasidic star Matisyahu saving reggae with new disc
Reuters
Apart from late reggae pioneer Bob Marley his various offspring and the British band UB40 reggae never gained much traction in the United States. And Hasidic Jews were not exactly noted practitioners. Matisyahu sees himself as a savior of the genre. “Reggae music in a lot of ways got really stagnant” he said. “You see a lot of the reggae bands play today and it’s the same horn patches on keyboards that they’ve been playing for 15 years and not in a retro-cool kind of way. It’s totally nauseating to me. “We’re taking elements of reggae music but totally crossing over into different genres and blending different things.
Reggae Singer With a Legacy a Following and a Mission
New York Times
Like those singers he possesses an expressive instantly recognizable voice as well as a knack for lyrics and melodies that capture the ups and downs of love and life — a new baby whose parents can’t sleep a husband whose wife’s kisses have gone cold — in a way that is both familiar to his island audience and accessible to the world. He’s also an irrepressibly cheerful personality constantly cracking jokes in patois though he could hardly take his work more seriously. His mission he said in a recent telephone interview from a tour stop in rlando Fla. is to “preserve our culture” by which he means reggae music and the attendant black-empowerment philosophies of Marcus Garvey. After a long season dominated by a musical war between Vybz Kartel and Mavado that has divided those artists’ young fans and a radio ban brought on by a slew of songs about daggering the latest dirty-dancing trend the dancehall sound that has dominated Jamaican music for the past two decades has become increasingly unintelligible to the rest of the world. Without bashing dancehall Mr. Riley is leading a resurgence of traditional roots reggae fortified by a rare blend of wisdom maturity and street cred.
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