PART 2

1990's:

• Sweet Jamaica...Tony Rebel

• Mi Want Money...Munga

• Lord Give Me Strength...Luciano

• Destiny/Untold Stories...Buju Banton

• Girlie Girlie...Yu Too Girlie Girlie...Sophia George
(This song had many of the braddahs meekly singing along... as if remembering being caught, red/brown/black-handed in the cookie jar of a love frenzy!)

• Organ Medly

• Liquidator...Harry J Allstars

• Doctor No Go...Earnest Ranglin

• Eight for Eight...???

• The Ball...???

• Darker Shade...Jackie Mittoo

• Evening Time (from a Louise Bennett poem)...Magano

LUCINO: Over The Hills-Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fggeoCsmK6E

2000's:

• Drop Leaf (Riddims such as Jah Cure's "Longing")

• She's Royal...Taurus Riley

• Angel...Shaggy & Rayvon

Last Song:
• Go Back Home...Bob Andy

A Video Anthology of Jamaican Music:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL14F36F5391F11E97

100 Greatest Reggae Songs:
www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_songs-Reggae.html

Some Music Credits of Calabash Fest 2012 Performers:

• The Jakoostic Music Ensemble (Wayne Armond; Donald Waugh & the "retiring" Seretse Small)...when not shoring up the Calabash Acoustic Ensemble
www.sonicbids.com/2/EPK/?epk_id=258869#bio

• Raging Fyah: Irie Vibe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCdKpKoDGAg&feature=related

• No-Maddz Fun Interview @ Reggae Jam Festival...Germany
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmnRiykL7JM

2004...The poetry of Bob Dylan's lyrics is acknowledged by the prophetic strains of Reggae in a Tribute Album: Is it Rolling Bob...All the biblical assurances professed by Rastafarianism are evoked in such seminal albums as Bunny Wailer's Blackheart Man, covered by Wayne Armond & the Calabash Ensemble at Calabash at the 2006 Calabash Fest: "Mix But Don't Blend In".

Witness these lines ("messages") in RastaMan from that song cycle:

It was Joshua who commanded the sun stand still
He was a Rasta Man
He did this according to his Master's will who was a Rasta Man...

Such Reggae stalwarts as Beres Hammond (Just Like A Woman), Luciano (Knockin' On Heaven's Door), Sizzla (Subterranean Homesick Blues); Toots Hibbert's interpretation of Maggie's Farm in light of slave plantation protest!) add their voices. The recording might not hold up to the standards of a memorable unified effort, but it signals a deep respect for the mystic source of lyrical (psalmist) words-message-image that Dylan brings to the fore.

LINKS:
Is it Rolling, Bob?::A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan
www.rasrecords.com/various/ras89914%20dylan.htm


Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain A Gonna Fall - Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLM7zVe5els&feature=related

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son ?
And where have you been my darling young one ?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son ?
And what did you see, my darling young one ?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand takers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son ?
And what did you hear, my darling young one ?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet my blue-eyed son ?
Who did you meet, my darling young one ?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded and hatred

nd it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son ?
And what'll you do now my darling young one ?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
I'll walk to the deepths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are a many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I'll tell and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my songs well before I start singin'
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Youtube Music Link: Living in Love..."And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=irmCvnUBy28&feature=relmfu

I Shall be Released (Bob Dylan)...Being sung as some-one's bodily ashes are ever flung into sea mist...


I Shall Be Released

They say ev’rything can be replaced
Yet ev’ry distance is not near
So I remember ev’ry face
Of ev’ry man who put me here
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

They say ev’ry man needs protection
They say ev’ry man must fall
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

Standing next to me in this lonely crowd
Is a man who swears he’s not to blame
All day long I hear him shout so loud
Crying out that he was framed
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

Back Stories on Two Performers in the "Spontaneous" Calabash Acoustic Ensemble:

• Della Manley: When this soulful, jazz-tinged renowned interpreter, of any song she puts her heart into, slipped onto the Calabash Music Pavilion, the expectations of the crowd were palpable. You never seem to know where or when her appearances will occur, but she leaves her audience in hushed admiration.

Mutabaruka, Ja's highly mature, professorial by nature, empathetic Rasta dub poet, was sighted in the audience earlier, in deep contemplation, taking in the readings at the Calabash Fest, and this reminds us that he teamed up with Della on her sumptuous album: Barbican Square.

Youtube Links:
Della Teams Up With Mutabaruka ("One Who Is Always Victorious"): I Know ...from the Album: Barbican Square
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_WOqU9stCE

DELLA MANLEY: An "Ancient" Interview (12•2002)
Gleaner Link:
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20021208/ent/ent3.html


Another intriguing musician was the percussionist for the Ensemble, and begs the question, what does a drummer do with his hands when he's not keeping the BEAT?

• Irvin 'Carrot' Jarrett: Percussionist Hands turn to Reiki Healing..."Palm or Hands-On Healing"

"This thing (reiki) is something that will help us to live a healthier lifestyle,"...It involves ancient traditional principles, the power of touch and distance techniques to enhance healing.

This does not mean he has abandoned his musical calling. In fact, he combines music in the healing process.

"In reiki I use music. It's all about energy. It's all about frequency so the music is part of the healing process...I also use aroma therapy and oils."

Jarrett was quick to rebuff the perception that reiki is a form of devil worshipping.

"It is because they (detractors) don't understand it. Reiki is the same thing that Jesus Christ used."

Observer Link:
www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertainment/-Carrot--Jarrett-goes-holistic_11152896


If you feed people with violence, they are going to be vile...If you fill them with love, they're going to be lovely!
(Boby Digital--A leading Ja-Mecca music producer)

Scientists Turn "Star" Data (...of the Universe) Into Reggae Music}

What do stars in outer space sound like?

Try listening to the 6-second melody (www.gatech.edu/inc/hgFile.php?fname=4-melody.wav) that will be used on a track due this fall by the reggae-rock group Echo Movement.
The band wanted to create its own space jam, so it asked researchers at Georgia Tech's Sonification Lab to transform NASA data into a musical construction. The scientists entered numerical values assigned to the dimming and brightening of a binary star as another star crossed its path into software that created "sonified musical pitches."

The scientists eliminated some ambient noise, then Echo Movement orchestrated the result into a looped, four-part harmony...
The star data was captured by the high-powered Kepler telescope, which continues to hunt for Earth-like planets.

“People have made music with space sounds before, but largely using pulsars and space events that can be recorded in the radio spectrum. We wanted something completely off the chart," explained one of Echo Movement's members. (Newser)

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47806446/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.T-HK8xzP8mU

In Conclusion:

Nina Simone - I Shall Be Released
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyCn8IC5RpE

Jacob Miller - I Shall Be Released
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YA4p5Lhbto&feature=related

Aaron Neville - I Shall Be Released
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLXauN2Rkd8

Ah-mmm...So Be It...