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Tribo de Jah - 2 novos álbuns

Um dos principais nomes e grande referência do reggae nacional, o grupo Tribo de Jah apresenta agora o ,seu mais novo e recente trabalho, que nasce após sucesso conquistado com uma série de turnês pelo exterior, através das quais o grupo viajou por diversos continentes, tocando não só nos grandes palcos de cidades como Nova York, Los Angeles, Paris, Londres, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, como também em paises inusitados onde o grupo jamais imaginou chegar, como Cabo Verde na África, Guiana Francesa, etc. O grupo esteve presente também nos maiores festivais de reggae do mundo, desde que participou do Reggae Sunsplash na Jamaica, participou recentemente de festivais como o “Bob Marley Day” em Los Angeles e San Diego, junto aos maiores nomes do reggae mundial; tocando ainda nos maiores festivais de reggae europeus como o Paris-Bercy, na França, o Rototon Sunsplash na Itália; tendo feito também duas apresentações realmente aclamadas no Festival de Jazz de Montreux, na Suíça. Recentemente a Tribo apresentou dois shows em Londres com os ingressos esgotados antecipadamente para as duas noites que marcaram o pré-lançamento de seu cd para o mercado internacional.
Prestes a completar 20 anos de estrada com a mesma formação inicial, com 11 CDS e um DVD já lançados, Fauzi Beydoun (voz/guitarra), Zé Orlando (voz/percussão), Achiles Rabelo (voz/baixo), Alexsandro Enes (voz/guitarra), Francisco Guilherme (voz/teclados) e João Rodrigues (bateria); aproveitam a boa repercussão de seu trabalho no exterior e se preparam agora para inovar mais uma vez, lançando simultaneamente um CD em português, com o título de “The Babylon Inside” (a faixa titulo é em inglês), e um em inglês “Love To The World, Peace To The People”. Há uma obvia expectativa de investir cada vez mais no mercado externo apesar da já sólida carreira conquistada no Brasil. Os CDs em diferentes idiomas contem 3 ou 4 canções em comum dentre as 15 faixas relacionadas para cada álbum, mantendo porém o ineditismo das gravações das demais canções para cada obra separadamente.

Depois de seu último álbum “In Version”, gravado na Suíça durante mais uma das viagens ao exterior, porém visando basicamente o mercado nacional, a Tribo se impõe definitivamente como mais um nome de respeito no mercado internacional, fazendo um trabalho de nível invejável que certamente irá alçá-la a uma posição de destaque junto aos grandes nomes do reggae mundial. Canções como “Love to the World, Peace to the People” e “The Dance of the Insane”, denotam toda a maturidade do grupo, com temas sempre atuais e incisivos, que correrão o mundo dando conta do alto padrão a que chegou o reggae brasileiro. No cd nacional, “The babylon Inside”, a canção Sampa a Pampa muda um pouco o foco da banda que em todos os seus cds anteriores cantou o Maranhão, o berço do grupo, fazendo agora uma homenagem natural a São Paulo onde a banda esta radicada há aproximadamente oito anos. A veia contestadora e politizada esta presente em “Apartheid Social” e “Guerra na Babilônia”, embora a contestação aqui seja muito mais uma critica construtiva, na tentativa explicita do grupo de manter uma mensagem atual e conscientizadora para o público jovem. O que impressiona realmente é a capacidade de um grupo que, mesmo mantendo a sua agenda de shows extremamente ativa, consegue fazer simultaneamente dois CDs de excelente qualidade, cada qual com a média de 15 canções.

Como se não bastasse, desses dois CDs resultará ainda um terceiro com o titulo de “Tribo de Jah – In Dub”, que será o primeiro álbum totalmente do gênero do grupo. Este será certamente um trabalho muito mais conceitual que reforçara ainda mais a imagem do grupo como detentor de um domínio total da matéria quando o assunto é reggae. Para um grupo que surgiu como resultado de um dos movimentos mais efervescentes do reggae fora da Jamaica, que é cena reggae do Maranhão, e começou a trilhar seus primeiros passos invadindo as regiões mais próximas da Amazônia e do nordeste brasileiro, é realmente notável a trajetória da Tribo que promete ainda desbravar muitas e novas fronteiras. Inegável foi o papel desbravador do grupo, adentrando regiões onde antes nunca se tinha ouvido falar em reggae no Brasil, pavimentando o caminho para que surgisse um mercado dinâmico e realmente vibrante de reggae nacional. O fato de ter cinco deficientes visuais entre os seus seis integrantes deixou de ser a grande curiosidade para quem até então não conhecia o grupo. A capacidade de se re-inventar e abrir novos caminhos continua latente no grupo, como sua grande qualidade, buscando atingir sempre um grau de excelência e aprimoramento no seu trabalho, o que se comprova facilmente com a audição destes novos CDs que a Tribo de Jah lança no mercado.

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"Unique"! This is the word most commonly heard when people express their first impression about Tribo de Jah. We still could add"intense", "rare" and many different qualifications to this original Brazilian group. Only who watches them performing could describe the impressive magnetism they express on stage. One very peculiar detail about them is that 5 of the 6 members of the group are blind (one partially and the other four totally). They met each other at the School for the Blind from Sao Luis, capital of the state of Maranhao, in northern Brazil, called the Brazilian Jamaica. Some years later the five met vocalist and broadcaster Fauzi Beydoun, born in Sao Paulo but at that moment returning to Brazil from Ivory Coast, Africa, with the reggae rhythm pounding in his heart. The group then started to mix its 'roots reggae' music with strong political messages, social enlightenment and spiritual love and peace. The band performs a version of reggae that differs from the original Jamaican style, as they use elements of their native Brazilian culture, on what is now lovingly referred to as "Brazilian reggae".

They released already 11 albums and a very energetic DVD, conquering a loyal legion of fans all around the world and are now ready to release their newest and most crucial work, with two albums simultaneously, one in English for the international market tittled "Love To the World, Peace To The People" and one for Brazil called "The Babylon Inside".
From these two albums they are still preparing a third one called "Tribo de Jah in Dub". They sold already more than a million copies of their previous albums, just in Brazil, but we can certainly expect much more from this group considered at this moment to be at their best. The music of Tribo de Jah transcends all borders and appeals to the world-at-large, with songs performed in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish. After years playing all over a big country like Brazil, for big audiences, Tribo de Jah has now been playing all around the world for the last 5 years, in countries so different as Japan, Jamaica, Cabo Verde (Africa), Argentina, United States, Canada, France, Portugal, Holland, Italy, Switzerland (where they recorded their last album and performed two amazing performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival), etc., Always surprising with their genuine music, take a time to listen to their new release, "Love To The Word, Peace To the People", and be surprised yourself !

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Ouça 3 faixas nos títulos:

1 - The Babylon Inside

2 - Love to the World peace to the people

3 - Sampa a Pampa

Outa Space - Future Roots Sound System - Alemanha

Bob Marley na Forbes

Bob Marley continua na lista das celebridades que já passaram desta, que continuam arrecadando milhões de dólares com suas obras. Direitos autorais, licenças, produtos, etc, etc, etc...

Deem uma olhada nos mais mais logo abaixo e os respectivos valores arrecadados:

Forbes List of the Richest Deceased Celebrities
who earn the following millions each year.

Rank Name Earnings ($mil)
1 Elvis Presley $37
2 Charles Schulz 28
3 John Lennon 20
4 Dale Earnhardt 20
5 Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel 19
6 George Harrison 17
7 J.R.R. Tolkien 12
8 Bob Marley 10
9 Jimi Hendrix 8
10 Tupac Shakur 7
11 Marilyn Monroe 7
12 Jerry Garcia 5
13 Robert Ludlum 5

Recado da Familia Marley

Leiam abaixo o recado interessante que recebi da família Marley sobre o novo empreendimento deles! In english! Ahhh, site do resort é www.marleyresort.com

Greetings to you,

We thank you for your continued interest in the Marley Resort & Spa as we approach the website’s final development stages. The site will soon feature an in-depth look at the resort complete with an online reservation system. In the meantime, we would like to share with you a sneak preview of the Marley Resort & Spa with the anticipation of accommodating you soon.

Originally a governor’s mansion, Mrs. Rita Marley purchased the property after falling in love with it at first sight. The house was the summer getaway for the Marley Family from being on the road and life in Jamaica. After careful consideration, they decided to renovate and return this home to its former glory. Mrs. Rita Marley envisioned the resort as a way to personify the essence of her late husband, Bob Marley, his family and his legacy, and to offer incomparable comfort and vibe, even to the most discerning traveler.

Conveniently located in Nassau, Bahamas, the Marley Resort & Spa is situated on Cable Beach, locally known as the “Bahamian Riviera,” offering you, our future guests, a luxurious access to paradise. With its rich culture and heritage accentuated throughout the resort, the Marley Resort & Spa boasts 16 luxurious themed suites with select bedding options and upscale amenities. It also includes a five-star concierge desk with an array of services and a list of excursions and packages to choose from including wedding packages, golf, water sports and other exciting island adventures. Stop and visit the funky, uniquely designed Marley Boutique showcasing authentic Marley merchandise, quality Jamaican art and crafts and high-end fashion designed by daughter, Cedella. With emphasis on intimacy and individuality, the resort also houses an exclusive outdoor/indoor boutique spa presenting a menu of herbal therapies, ancient remedies and beauty rituals fused together from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Whether you are snorkeling the warm Caribbean waters or lounging by a private, free form pool, you will find yourselves immersed in pure island bliss. After soaking up the sun, whet your appetite at our premier gourmet Caribbean fusion restaurant serving themed, exotic dishes including some of Bob Marley’s favorites. Just relax and enjoy the mood as a Marley might just swing by to dine with you. At the end of your evening, shimmy under the stars as the island vibe is enhanced through nightly Caribbean music.

We are happy to say, “The Legend Lives” at the Marley Resort & Spa. Please stay tuned as we will offer more information as soon as we open our doors. Our guests are an extended part of our family and will be treated with such royalty and divine hospitality.

One Love,

The Marley Family

U-Roy no Brasil

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ZIGGY MARLEY INTERVIEW

Interview by Troy Rogers

As the eldest son of the late, great reggae superstar Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley knows a thing or two about music. On July 2, 2006 Ziggy released his second solo album, Love is My Religion and we caught up with reggae's prodigal son as he gears up for his latest tour, which kicks off in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the end of September.

UGO: The album sort of has the same upbeat vibe Conscious Party had in the overall tone. What motivated you to write this album?

ZIGGY: Well, I didn't want to be in the political world; now everything is political songs and I really didn't want to [go there]. I just didn't feel like writing about politics today. I wanted to write about love and spiritual things. I mean, I have a couple of songs that could be deemed political, but I wanted to write about love and spiritual things, you know.

UGO: How do you push yourself to go beyond your own expectations as a solo artist?

ZIGGY: I really don't have to push myself because it comes naturally to me, like just doing things. I'm a very creative person, so when I'm in the studio I do things that I'm surprised by. There's something inside of me that, I don't know, sometimes I think it's another force that plays the prettiest thing that I don't know how to play. Sometimes I'll play something and I'm like, "Alright, I didn't learn to play that. I just played it."

UGO: Where did you get the inspiration for the song "Black Cat." Was it similar to seeing a dragonfly on your previous album?

ZIGGY: Yeah, that is exactly what it was. It was a black cat and I was sitting in the studio. We had stray cats where we were doing the recording and there was one black cat that walked past the door and someone said, "Look, a black cat," and they were saying that something bad was going to happen. I said to him, "No." Why would you say that just because it's a black cat, you know?

UGO: Who's singing lead vocals on the "Make Some Music" track?

ZIGGY: That's me all the way, brother.

UGO: You sound really different on the song.

ZIGGY: [laughs] That's me talking to a girl, man. When I talk to the girls, I sound different. It's not the same way I talk to you.

UGO: [laughs] Good point.

ZIGGY: That's me.

UGO: With all of the fighting going on in the world today, do you feel the system has too much control?

ZIGGY: Yeah, the system has too much control and that's why there is so much hurting, because it is the system that is causing this fighting. The religious systems, the political system, the social system, all of these systems want to put people in specific religions, classes and specific races. All of these things, they only divide people against each other, so that's too much control the system has.

UGO: On the last record, you spoke the truth on "Shalom Salaam". What's your take on the recent clash between Islam and Judaism?

ZIGGY: Between Israel and Hezbollah, well, I always say violence only begets more violence. It's like the strategy is not working. The strategy of violence to achieve peace is not working. It's been tried in Iraq and it doesn't work. We need to find another strategy. Some great thinker of the 21st century, some political philosopher or professor needs to come up with another strategy where it's not about bombing and killing to find peace. You don't find peace by killing. So I say it can't work. It goes the same for both sides, whether that be Hezbollah, the Palestinians, Israel or America, you cannot solve your problems with violence, it only breeds more violence. We have to learn to live together. Why is that so hard to understand? We haven't been able to figure that out for thousands of years.

UGO: The world could definitely use more love as a religion.

ZIGGY: That's a new concept that we're trying to get, a new philosophy, a new concept for the 22nd century. Future generations, I hope, will grasp the philosophy and the concept of love is my religion. It will not be grasped today and it won't be in this time, but for future generations I hope that somehow they will understand the idea and grasp it so they're not living the way we are today.

UGO: Your brothers have also been busy this year. I know that Stephen contributed to a few tracks on Damien's album. Will we see all of you guys together on one record sometime soon?

ZIGGY: Yeah, that's the future. That's what we're thinking about, but it'll be a couple of years from now. I hope I won't be too old, but yeah.

UGO: I heard you used to sit in on your father's recording sessions as a young child. What do you remember most about them?

ZIGGY: I remember as a child the studio being a fun place. To me, the studio was like a big spaceship. I have a great imagination and the studio to me was like this craft with the lights and the boards and it was something new for me. I really used my imagination when I was in there. As kids, we'd fall asleep in the studio and it wasn't about being in the studio with your father, it was being in this magical place where my imagination could run wild.

UGO: What's the most important thing you've learned from your father, both musically and in life?

ZIGGY: Musically, we learned that there is a certain standard that we set and we have to keep. That means we have to have discipline in what we are doing. That means we do not take the music for granted. We take the music as a serious thing and we treat it that way, so we become slightly perfectionist in what we're doing to maintain a certain standard in what we do. I learned that, musically, from my father, that discipline. In life, I think I learned from him spirituality. He laid the foundation for my beliefs, now coming to me and telling me that love is my religion. It's because of his foundation that I have reached this point. He laid the foundation for my philosophy today.

UGO: You've said in the past that you like all types of music. While you're on the road for this tour, what kind of music are you listening to?

ZIGGY: On this tour, I will listen to African music, Fela Kuti in particular. I'm really digging African music and I'm really into Fela Kuti. Hopefully, in the future, I want to incorporate more African elements into the music.

UGO: Will the set lists for this tour include both versions of "Love Is My Religion?"

ZIGGY: I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it.

UGO: The acoustic version's great.

ZIGGY: Everybody likes the acoustic version, I don't know why.

Local artistes get OD at King's House

Left:Singer/songwriter, Bob Andy, was presented with the Order of Distinction (Commander class). Andy (real name Keith Anderson) was recognised for his contribution to the development of reggae music. Right: A beaming Boris Gardiner shows off his Order of Distinction (Officer class) which he received during the National Honours and Awards ceremony at King's House on Monday. Gardiner, a bass player and singer/songwriter, was rewarded for his dedicated service to the music industry.

THE paths of singer/songwriters Bob Andy and Boris Gardiner have crossed many times over the past 45 years, but none was more joyous than on Heroes Day when both received the Order of Distinction during the National Honours and Awards ceremony at King's House.

Andy, 62, is best known for seminal songs like Fire Burning, Unchained and I Want to Go Back Home. His OD, in the Commander class, was for sterling contribution to the development of reggae music.

Gardiner, 63, one of reggae's unheralded heroes, was rewarded in the Officer class.

Besides recording hit songs such as Love's Been Good to Me and I Wanna Wake up With You, he has played bass on some notable songs such as Larry Marshall's Nanny Goat, Junior Murvin's massive Police and Thieves and Young, Gifted and Black, a hit in Britain for Andy and Marcia Griffiths during the early 1970s.

Typically, the soft-spoken Gardiner took his award in stride.

"I've had a heart condition since I was 17, and I never knew I would live this long," he said. "The older I get the heart gets stronger, so under the circumstances I'm pleased."

The dreadlocked Andy said the award was the icing on the cake, for he has received much adulation over the years from the public.

"From the get-go, the Jamaican people have recognised and acknowledged me and I have spent every moment after that making sure that I make good music," he said.

Gardiner is currently working on a new album. Andy's latest album, Reggae Land, co-produced by he and Danny Breakenridge, was recently released.

Interestingly, Lennie Little-White, who directed Andy in the 1978 movie Children of Babylon, also received the OD (Commander class) on Monday. The man behind the popular soap opera, Royal Palm Estate, he was cited for outstanding contribution to comunication and film.

Asley 'Grub' Cooper of Fab Five fame, also received the OD (Commander class) for contribution to the music industry.

Record producer, Lloyd 'King Jammys' James, who has been producing hit songs for almost 30 years, was awarded the OD (Officer rank) for sterling contribution to the music industry.

Another recipient of the OD (Officer rank) was singer/songwriter, Ernie Smith, a prolific hitmaker during the 1970s. He was recognised for his outstanding contribution to music and Jamaica's cultural development.

Marley to be honoured with plaque

Reggae legend Bob Marley is to be first person honoured with the Mayor of London's heritage plaque.

The plaque will be unveiled at the musician's former residence in Camden, north London, next Thursday. A member of his family is expected to attend.

The plaque to honour Marley, who died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 36, has been organised by the Nubian Jak Community Trust.

The unveiling is part of the Mayor's Black History Season.

It aims to promote the historical role and contribution of African Caribbean communities to the capital.

Peter Tosh - The Revolutionary Africanist

by Herbie Miller
Sunday, October 15, 2006

There must be a reason both at home and abroad that prevents Peter Tosh (October 19, 1944 ^September 11, 1987) from being recognised as the musical giant he was and continues to be. Whether it is a lack of communication between those who oversee his interest and the record labels for which he recorded, I don't know.

But certainly a mutually respectable and agreeable relationship between the two should result in the kind of currency other musicians who have transitioned enjoy. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra and Bob Marley are as appreciated today as when they lived. In some cases, these performers have become much larger than before.

Not so for Tosh. For someone second only to Marley, who has spread Jamaica's cultural image across continents and to millions of people, he has been severely snubbed by the local arts and heritage organisations, cultural czars in government, the media and as a result, the Jamaican music loving public. Perhaps the submerged artistry of Peter Tosh is because he was a revolutionary in fact and not just a rebel.

Peter Tosh considered himself a displaced African. He conceptualised that great continent as a state of mind, which means he could live his Africaness without ever going there. At the same time, however, Peter related to Africa in its reality. He saw it as a continent blessed with magnificent history, majesty and tradition, yet, beset with bloodshed, ethnic conflict, and poverty, which he attributed to the lasting effects of colonial exploitation and oppression.

Connecting the conceptual to the real, Tosh acknowledged Africa as a place he would someday visit, in fact even live. He eloquently expressed in many interviews his 'overstanding' of the motherland and his willingness to 'go back home.' In one such interview, he resolutely stated, 'The future with me is in Africa. My song say Mama Africa, that is just telling Africa I am coming home.'

Yet, on the other hand, although his main objective was Africa itself, Tosh loved Jamaica, which he dubbed, 'Jah mek yah,' and considered the island of his birth a piece of Africa afloat in the Caribbean - what he termed 'carry us/them beyond.'

His artistic response to that dislocation was to address Africa's historic significance by singing its praise, and encouraging an African identity. The song African, one of his many compositions that convey his awareness, provides a sense of Tosh's ideal:

Don't care where you come from
As long as you're a black man,
You're an African
Never mind your nationality
You have got the identity of an African
If your plection high, high, high
If your plection low, low, low
If your plection in between
You're an African

These lyrics clearly demonstrate Tosh's views on identity and suggest an Afro-Jamaican and diasporic relationship to Africa. At the same time, he addressed the realities of Africa's contemporary problems by highlighting the issues that plagued it. Above all, Tosh dedicated himself to the political freedom of Africa and committed himself to its liberation in both words and deed.

During the apartheid era, and before many of his fellow singers and musicians knew its meaning and implications, Tosh took a stance against the white supremacist governments of South and South West Africa and their Western allies. He openly supported the African Nationalist Congress (ANC) and South West African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO) resistance movements. As a reaction, Tosh composed and recorded his seminal album, Equal Rights in 1977. The powerful title song was programmed with African, 400 Hundred Years, Get Up Stand Up, Downpressor Man and Apartheid.

These songs all voiced his support for African liberation and his concerns for the world's oppressed. Using sound effects at the start of the song to simulate machine guns, chaos and struggle, Tosh sings on Apartheid:

Yu inna me land quite illegal
You inna me land dig out me gold, yeah
Inna me land digging out my pearls
Inna me land dig out me diamonds
We a go fight, fight, fight
Fight 'gainst apartheid
We gotta fight, fight, fight
Fight 'gainst apartheid
You break off, break off from Britain
You quite illegal right where you are
Yu get yu forces from colonial powers
Taking my diamonds to build ballistic missiles
And use yu might to take me rights
We gonna fight, fight fight fight
Fight gainst apartheid

Tosh talked direct, he addressed the situation as he saw it and he put his money where he put his mouth. Peter Tosh often performed for free on many anti-apartheid concerts, at times paying from his own pocket those in the band and crew who insisted on being paid. Their demands would not prevent Tosh from giving his energy and talents to the cause of African freedom.

Tosh kept himself abreast of the various liberation struggles, their supporters and detractors and energetically engaged anyone sharing his opinion (or not) in lively discussions and debates on the subject. He read and passed on to those interested, a book he purchased in Brussels called the Broederbund (Brotherhood) that provided a background to the origins and implementation of the apartheid system. He met and spent time in reasoning sessions with Kwame Toure (Stokely Carmichael), Angela Davis and others with similar reputations for engaging in progressive struggle.

Along with Toure and Davis, and like the celebrated renaissance man, political activist and fellow entertainer, Harry Belafonte - with whom he did a video special in 1976 - Tosh was not afraid of being on the front line. In 1967, he was arrested outside the British High Commission in Kingston protesting Ian Smith's take over of the former Rhodesia, now the South West African state of Zimbabwe. And he never gave up music as his primary weapon. Songs such as African, Mama Africa, and I am Going Home, are other samples of Tosh's recorded reactions to Africa and its liberation.

In the heated election campaign of 1980, and in spite of Marley being previously shot (1976) for agreeing to perform on the Smile Jamaica Show, which was perceived as a political gesture, Tosh conceived and staged the Youth Consciousness 1 and 2 concerts at the Jamaica House grounds and at Fort Clarence. It was his way of communicating to youth, both as a reprimand to turn away from tribalism and partisan violence and for them to support what he thought the more progressive option offered. Jahman Inna Jamdung, recorded for the Equal Rights album was the theme:

Jah man inna Jamdung
Have some faith my brother
There are many, many tribulations
But have some faith my brothers

Undoubtedly, the recording Equal Rights remains Peter Tosh's flagship recording. It is also one of the most outstanding recordings to address socio-political issues as a global problem. As a complete work, it captures the racial, political immorality and systemic inhumanities that was part of the world of the 70s, a situation that remains to the present.

Shifting the highlight from the specificity of South Africa's apartheid and placing the focus on the continent in general, Tosh's revolutionary spirit, communal solidarity and feminist consciousness are evident in the song Fight On:

Africa has got to be free
Fight on brothers, fight on
Fight on and free your land
Fight on sisters, fight on
Fight on and free your fellow man
Cos if Africa is not free
Then we all will be
Back in shackles you see
My brothers fight on
Fight on and free yourselves
Fight on and free your land
Fight on and free your fellowman

Among his fans, Tosh's Africanist image is generally known, though in general, he has been slighted, not taken seriously or really understood. Its disturbing that with the day of his birth fast approaching, Tosh remains a grossly underappreciated, under represented, and even taken for granted singer/musician.

He was, and continues to be viewed in many circles as a somewhat cantankerous individual who existed in the shadow of his former group member and brethren Bob Marley. Yet, in my mind, Peter Tosh was not only a most complex human being, but also, was one of his era's most politically aware, incisive, musically engaging, and truly entertaining performers.

As for me, he remains one of the most important, insightful and committed twentieth century political musicians and activist I have observed. His pragmatic observation of local and world politics influenced his compositions. Tosh was a musician whose best socio-political works parallel that of anyone working in that style. That is, everyone from Robeson to Marley.

On the lighter side, what is unknown by most, is that Peter Tosh had a grand sense of humour. He was young at heart and as funny as any stand up comedian, or that he spent quite some time purchasing toys and gadgets associated with youth culture and activities for his own use. So, skateboards, roller skates, slingshots, electric motorcars, unicycles and layback cycles (the two most grown up of his many toys) were most precious and guarded. He also loved pets and kept fishes, a variety of rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and birds.

His favourite was Freddie, the parrot. I once had to talk Peter out of returning from a European tour with a pet chimpanzee, for me, it was a monumental achievement since it was virtually impossible to talk him out of some things, including 'beating the gate' with the hamsters from a previous tour.

How difficult might it be to convince the record labels holding Peter Tosh's best-recorded material - Sony, EMI, Rolling Stone/Atlantic and Island - to embark on a campaign to establish this musical giant and important political activist to the height he deserves? Short of political reasons which certainly, record labels have been known to use as excuses on a purely musical level, I hope not too difficult. On behalf of those for whom Peter Tosh lives, I say, Happy Earthday, Mystic Bush Doctor.

Herbie Miller is a cultural historian specialising in Slave culture, Caribbean identity and jazz. He was Peter Tosh's manager. herbimill@aol.com

Reggae rebelution: For Jamaican singer-songwriter Tanya Stephens, politics is only half the battle

She's also out to spur social change.
BY EVELYN McDONNELL
emcdonnell@MiamiHerald.com

Tanya Stephens has already been a dancehall diva and a Swedish rock star. So on her extraordinary sixth album, the Jamaican singer-songwriter went for broke. Wearing a red beret and combat fatigues and singing movingly with the kind of sweeping vision that made Bob Marley a world figure, Stephens presents herself as a revolutionary -- or more precisely, a rebelutionary.

''Change must come,'' Stephens sings not stridently but soulfully, in the plaintive nasal voice that has made her reggae's strongest artist. She repeats the lyric, for good measure, on Welcome to the Rebelution, the call-to-arms opening track of Rebelution.

Reggae acts have been agitating for decades. But Stephens, who performs at Fort Lauderdale's Gold Coast Roller Rink on Saturday, doesn't entangle her message in religious doctrine or merely berate the European oppressor. The 33-year-old single mother is singing to herself, and to you and me.

''It's not just a political change I'm looking for, I'm looking for social change,'' Stephens explains, sitting in the lobby of the Hollywood Holiday Inn. ``I'm hoping to be part of a movement.''

It's easy and even trendy to dress like a guerrilla and bash geopolitics. But Stephens isn't taking a fashionable stand: She's making a brave and important one that could rescue her national music from the creative doldrums and resuscitate its battered image. On the song Do You Still Care, Stephens challenges her dancehall brethren's homophobia, equating it with the KKK's racism: ''Do you still find it hard to love your neighbor as you love yourself now,'' she sings.

''I really want to see a change in the way we approach each other, in terms of the respect levels, the acceptance of difference,'' Stephens says. ``I'm from a minority. . . . Different shouldn't be seen as a bad thing. We should embrace it.''

Difference has driven Stephens to step outside the confines of genre and the Caribbean. It's what makes Rebelution, with its rich plethora of melodic anthems, possibly the best album of the year, and Stephens the heiress apparent to Marley, Mary J. Blige and Kathleen Hanna.

Stephens was born in the hamlet of Richmond on the north coast of Jamaica. The sixth of seven children, her father died when she was one. Her mother was a community worker, teaching health and nutrition to poor families (an upbringing reflected on the powerful video for Warn Dem, which depicts a desperate man hijacking a car, then bringing an oxygen mask home to his ailing son).

Stephens says she grew up in a house of ''ardent musical consumers'' but not of music-makers. She sang but was more interested in writing; her songs are deftly and cleverly constructed stories. She was a rebel, eschewing schooling for good times: ``Most people just party in college, I actually stopped school for that.''

At parties, Stephens first got on the mike with her male friends. She began singing in two cover bands that barely paid. ``I think I enjoyed those days better than now. The honesty of it is so pure when you're broke and you have no money to motivate you, you just do it purely out of love.''

Stephens had her first hit with You Nuh Ready Yet, a song that challenges the macho stance of lovers. Every producer she worked with afterwards wanted her to do a variation on that theme.

''Dancehall is sometimes a little bit slow,'' Stephens says. ``Even though at one point reggae artists used to be the leaders of creativity, it got into a slump maybe in the '90s, when everybody started replicating everything that they'd heard. I got a bit despondent. That's when Sweden came around.''

At the MIDEM music conference in France, Stephens met a Swedish label executive. ``He liked the stuff I presented, which was way left of dancehall. I was taking influences of some other music: alternative, more guitar based, some heavier, harder music. Basically my Jamaicanness, with some creativity added to it.''

Stephens moved to Sweden and released one album, Sintoxicated. Then she discovered the politics of international labels. ``They end up telling me they were looking for another Britney Spears, and I didn't think I fit that bill. So I came back to Jamaica and pretty much did my own thing.''

The '04 VP release Gangsta Blues was a breakthrough for Stephens, garnering her mainstream American press and airplay on BET. It's a Pity, a love song to a married man, captured her raucous side, her a cappella version of I Am Woman her feminist one.

Rebelution, cowritten and produced by her manager Andrew Henton, marks her full evolution into a world-class artist. Songs range from the civil-rights anthem Come a Long Way, to the ribald morning-after regrets of Cherry Brandy, to the current Jamaican hit These Streets, the ballad of a woman in love with a thug. ''We discuss the things that are personal to us,'' Stephens says. ``I love to laugh at humans. I do believe we are the stupidest animal, I don't know how we got on top of the food chain.''

When the singer first played Do You Still Care for people, they were worried she would be ostracized. ``Everybody was saying, You're going to have to go from Jamaica again. . . . It's unfair we have this image of homophobia, when really, every type of person lives in Jamaica. There's a huge gay population. And homosexuals aren't dying every day as a result of violence against them. . . . We have a double standard, which will find a reason to pick on you if you're less fortunate. If you're rich or comfortably off, nobody cares. That means homosexuality isn't the problem. It must be poverty.''

Recently, Stephens took on a new challenge: She and her publisher sued Lil' Kim for infringement of copyright. The suit alleges that on her song Durty, the American rapper copied lyrics from Stephens' song Mi and Mi God.

''It would be in all of our interests to work out something amicably,'' Stephens says. ``I'm not really interested in a kind of altercation of aggression. But of course, principle is principle.''

Kim's lawyer has called the suit a 'money and media play at Lil' Kim's expense.''

Revolution, or even rebelution, is hard work. In the everyday world of the Holiday Inn, Stephens seems tired, frustrated with the feeble abilities of an independent label to spread the word. But she's in no hurry. Dressed for work, not glamour, the mother of a 12-year-old daughter laughs readily and self-deprecatingly, her engaging gap-tooth grin widening.

``I try to bring back the personal element, where everybody's not perfect. A guy doesn't always last the whole night, he actually has bad nights where he takes enzymes or something. That's how we're living, that's how the guys are in the world, but it doesn't come across like that on records: They're always superhuman, and the girls are all sexy and half naked. That's not the world I live in. I see real people on a daily basis, who are sexy, but not because they have to be naked. I try to represent real people. Because I consider myself a real person.''

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AUGUSTUS PABLO JAVA LIVE 1986

Este Youtube é mesmo incrível. Não a toa o Google comprou pela bagatela de 1,65 bilhões de dólares!

Video de Augustus Pablo + Soul Syndicate no Japansplash 1986. Não teve como não postar mais este na sequência...

DUBVERSAO - São Paulo - Brasil

Pra quem não conhece o ótimo trabalho do pessoal do Dubversão aqui em SP, segue 2 videos com a Sound trabalhando na rua, e de graça!

Vídeos feitos pelo pessoal pela dupla de videoartistas do Midiadub, de quem posto mais um video intitulado "Campo Limpo DUB".

Vale conhecer o trabalho de ambos, todos linkados aqui.


Dubversão Sistema de Som @ Campo Limpo pt.1- 2 - 2006


Dubversão Sistema de Som @ Campo Limpo pt.2- 2 - 2006



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Sobre a Midiadub - Dupla de vídeoartistas baseada em São Paulo que tem como objetivo encontrar a harmonia entre som e imagem. Com o repertório baseado em pesquisas de conteúdo e produções próprias, a dupla se destaca por percorrer campos diversos da música contemporânea sempre com temas específicos para cada projeto.

Cantor de reggae jamaicano critica grupos GLBT dos EUA

Por Redação
Foto: Divulgação
[Foto: Divulgação]

O cantor de reggae jamaicano Buju Banton usou duas palavras para criticar grupos gays que têm protestado contra seus shows nos Estados Unidos: "Fodam-se".

"Nunca falei mal de gays antes, e se tivesse feito isso, teria feito 16 anos atrás", disse o cantor ao site Billboard.com. "A comunidade gay não é nenhum pouco tolerante. Eu não sou homofóbico."

Em setembro, um clube de Los Angeles cancelou a apresentação do cantor, cujas letras têm caráter claramente homofóbico. Em julho, shows de Banton e de seu colega Beenie Man foram cancelados na Inglaterra após ativistas gays reclamarem que eles se recusavam a tirar expressões homofóbicas das letras de suas músicas. Banton tem duas músicas, "Batty Rider" e "Boom Bye Bye", que mencionam o fuzilamento contra gays.

Em 2004, Banton se livrou das acusações de ter participado de espancamento contra seis homossexuais na Jamaica.

Últimos preparativos para Festival de Reggae da UFMA

SÃO LUÍS - A Universidade Federal do Maranhão promoverá entre os dias 9 e 10 de novembro no Circo da Cidade, a 9º edição do Festival Universitário de Reggae (UNIREGGAE).

Este ano, o evento apresentará composições de músicos do Maranhão, Ceará, Piauí e São Paulo. A entrada será franqueada ao público, mas a coordenação do festival solicita doações de alimentos para entidades filantrópicas.

O projeto do 9º UNIREGGAE integra as comemorações dos 40 anos de existência da UFMA. Confira abaixo a relação dos concorrentes:

1 - Música: Candelária
Autor(es):José de Ribamar Cavalcante – São Luís -MA

2 - Música: Ponta da Areia
Autor(es): Paulo de Tarso – Teresina – PI

3 - Música: Nas Ondas do Rádio
Autor(es): Marcos Boa Fé – São Luís – MA

4 - Musica: “Apartai de Nós” Um só Momento
Autor (es): Marco Rogério Almeida Ramos – São Luís – MA

5 - Música: Os Guardiões dos Tempos
Autor(es): Francisco das Chagas Silva Lima – (Garrincha) – Trizidela do Vale – MA

6 - Música: Liberdade e Paz
Autor(es): Mario Fernando Muniz Costa – São Luís – MA

7 - Música: Áurea, Insurgência e Senzala
Autor(es): José Lopes Filho (Zé Lopes) – São Luís –MA

8 - Música: Sou Brasileiro
Autor(es): Luiz Guilherme Chagas de Almeida Luchesi – Indaiatuba – SP

9 - Música: Sem Saber Quem É
Autor(es): Antonio Manga Rosa Junior – Bacabal –MA

10 - Música: Lindas Palavras
Autor(es): André Marques Freire Leonor – São Caetano do Sul – SP

11 - Música: Água Viva
Autor(es): Ronaldo Queiro – São Luís – MA

12 - Música: Calma Coração
Autor(es): Ricardo Black – Fortaleza – CE

13 - Música: Santo Forte
Autor (es): Erivaldo Gomes – São Luís – MA

14 - Música: Incolor
Autor(es): Well Matos ( Wellington Matos ) – São Luís – MA

15 - Música: Vibrações Positivas
Autor(es): Richardson F. Tobias

16 - Música: América Ímpia
Autor(es): Manuel Baião de Dois – São Luís – MA

17 - Musica: Espelho da Historia
Autor (es): Samuel Barreto e Manoel Santana – Pedreiras – MA

18 - Música: Saltimbancos da Lua
Autor(es): André Guimarães – São Luís – MA

19 - Música: Rota da Revolução
Autor(es): Carlos Sales / Paul Getty – Pedreiras – MA

20 - Música: Letras de Neon
Autor(es): Albert Abrantes / Renata Abrantes – São Luís – MA

Com informações da Assessoria de Comunicação da UFMA

New Roots Revealers

Floyd Washington Clarke's stage-name is DJ Plate and Royston Gordon's is Mr Morba and together they form a group called New Roots Revealers.

Since beginning at Star Quest over two years ago (they appeared at the Bodden Town Civic Centre), New Roots Revealers have gone from strength to strength.

Recently they were the opening artists for Yellowman at the Mango Tree, and also for the Ghost show at the Lions Centre.

New Roots Revealers is not really a group in the traditional sense, as DJ Plate and Mr Morba rarely perform at exactly the same time, but they are united, they say, by their passion for writing songs and making music. They also both hold Bob Marley in high esteem as a performer and songwriter, and wish to build upon his foundation of artistic integrity.

Like Bob Marley, DJ Plate has the ability to draw attention to the sacredness of ordinary activities (exemplified in Marley's 'Night Shift,' a song celebrating night-shift work on a fork-lift truck).

Life is a gift, so that all activity, even walking down the road, is in some way sacred. DJ Plate recognises this, and has written a song simply about the dignity of walking in Grand Cayman, when everyone tells you that you need a car.

The song is called Cayman Road.

"Cayman Road is the song I love; it is a song really based on the Cayman Islands itself," DJ Plate said.
"I am an artist who can create a song about something that you can see every day, making it positive. I love to talk in the present tense, and to sing about everyday happenings, and walking is a very important part of life," he said.

DJ Plate's art is not just in writing songs, putting together melody and words; it is in also in his performance.

As he sings, he gives back to ordinary things the dignity that a materialistic culture tries to take away.

Taking up a defiant stance, each syllable explodes in perfect rhythm, punching the air like a shadow-boxer:

"Taxi fare I cannot afford,
Bus fare I cannot afford,
Car I cannot afford
Truck I cannot afford,
Ninjabike I cannot afford
Walk from School Road to Webb Road
Walk from Webb to Smith Road
Walk from Smith Road to Walkers Road
Walk from Walkers Road to West Bay Road
Walk from West Bay Road to Bodden Town Road."

The repetition of the words and phrases resembles the repetition of step after step, the determination of walking a long way.

As he sings, he gives back to ordinary things the dignity that a materialistic culture tries to remove.

Mr Morba, the other half of New Roots Revealers said:

"We look at Bob Marley, and we think he left us an asset...but we look at it today we see a lot of guys in the music business who are not taking up from where he left off. What we are saying is that we need to continue with that asset that he left for us.

"Bob Marley was an artist who was always teaching you, and showing you the direction. That is the same direction we want to go in our music.

"Some of these guys just take the music for the money-making, but we want to take it for the love of ourselves and our people."

New Roots Revealers therefore tries to build on Bob Marley's foundation, his example as a truth-teller, and upon his example of integrity.

Mr Morba explained more about why New Roots Revealers does not want to go the route of quick popularity at the expense of integrity.

"I want to stay on the truthful side, Why? Because I know there is a God so I try to glorify God in my words. Many people in this world fell asleep because they were no longer focusing on the true creator which is God, so that whenever a problem comes they cannot analyze it," he added.

"We are sending some messages now in our music, so if somebody cannot handle their problem, if they are saying to themselves: 'Life is treating me so bad I am going to take myself up to the rooftop to throw myself down,' then we are putting a message in the music, for them to reconsider.

"Music has a level of truth in it, the ability to recreate, and see beyond temporary problems," he said.
One of Mr Morba's song's begins: "O my people why cant you learn to pray, you need to go down on your knees, and let God fill your mouth with words.

Why are you acting like your dumb and your blind? Don't you see it's the end of time?"
New Roots Revealers hope to perform at the next 'Xposure' event at the Peppers Lounge on 9 October.

Rob Symeonn: The Chosen One…Acclaimed Roots Singer Releases New Album November 7th, 2006

Brooklyn , NY, September 29, 2006 : Highly acclaimed conscious singer Rob Symeonn, "The Spark Igniter" will be blazing the Reggae scene with The Chosen One, his debut album for Redbud Recordings on November 7th. Named for the hit title single, The Chosen One pours Symeonn's sweet, smokey vocals over the heavy drum and bass sounds of classic Roots reggae. With searing social commentary and empowering lyrical content, the album seeks to fill in the missing gaps in contemporary music.

"My goal is to feed the people with the spiritual food that they are starving for," explains Symeonn, a devout Rastafarian. "Taking Selassie I teachings to the people is like taking them to a "rasta-rant." When dem hungry, they go eat in a restaurant, but this is a rasta-rant feeding them conscious food to uplift themselves. "

The album boasts 17 of Symeonn's tailor-made Roots tunes with rifts and melodies created in collaboration with some of Reggae's legendary musicians including Val Douglas, Noel Alphonso (son of legendary Skatalite Roland Alphonso), Bongo Herman, Dalton Browne, Kevin Batchelor, and Andy Brassford. The Chosen One also features guest appearances from Junior Kelly, Terry Ganzie, Willow Wilson, and Simple Man, with stellar production for Noel Alphonso, Victor Ticklah Axelrod, and Brooklyn's DJ Mikey Assassin of Demolition Sound.

The first releases, the title single "The Chosen One," and "Cold Outside" have been embraced by Hot 97, New York City's top urban radio station, enjoying heavy rotation on Bobby Konders and Jabba's On Da Reggae Tip show. The singles have also been enjoying regular airplay on WBLS's Carib Fever with New York's staple Caribbean radio personality Dahved Levy. Overseas stations such as Sweden's P3 Rytm, Rise Up 99.3FM in Lyon, France, and Spain's Bass Culture 91.4 out of Madrid, have also picked up the tunes in addition to internet stations from Canada, England, and Hungary. "The Chosen One" has also been featured on high-profile compilations such as J Boogie's Dubtronic Science, and Riddim Magazine's 2006 summer promotional CD.

Migrating from the Caribbean to Brooklyn, NY as a child, Rob Symeonn got his start singing on Flatbush's famous One Love International Sound System. His first single "Anything for Jah" was released on Easy Star Records in 1997. The follow up single "Delilah," a combination tune with veteran deejay Ranking Joe, gained a lot of momentum in the States and the Caribbean. THC Music in Hawaii released his first full-length album, Abso-Rootly Hot, in 2001. He has shared the stage with notable foundation Reggae artists Wailing Souls, Sister Carol, and The Meditations, as well as celebrated contemporary acts I-Wayne, Fantan Mojah, Bitty McLean, and Khari Kill.

Named for the Biblical high-priest "Simeon the Just," known for his piety for life, and benevolence toward his people, Symeonn sees The Chosen One as a "voice for the have nots, the downpressed, the fatherless—the voice of those society has forgotten." When asked why he chose to embark upon a career in music he simply states: "I didn't choose music. It chose me. It's my calling. It's what I was chosen for."

The Chosen One will be in stores November 7th. For more information on Rob Symeonn visit www.myspace.com/robsymeonn or www.redbudrecords.com . For interviews and media requests, contact Publicist Stan E Smith, stansmith24@hotmail.com or 347 236 5830. For bookings contact: selah_management@yahoo.com or 718 809-5328.

Ziggy Marley esbanja reggae e mensagens neo-hippies em SP

Guga Azevedo
UOL Música

"Uma celebração ao amor". Diferentes interpretações à parte, este seria um simples resumo da apresentação de Ziggy Marley, na noite desta quinta-feira (5), no Credicard Hall em São Paulo.

Com quase 45 minutos de atraso, o músico subiu ao palco para trazer aos pouco mais de 3 mil fãs paulistanos a turnê de seu último trabalho "Love is my Religion", lançado em junho deste ano. Durante todo o show não trocou mais do que algumas frases com a platéia, mas mesmo assim esbanjou simpatia, brincando e interagindo com todos os presentes. E sorria com os dreads jogados ao ar.

Acompanhado por outros sete músicos e duas backing vocals (com direito a coreografias para as faixas e tudo mais), Ziggy Marley soube administrar bem o repertório, dando atenção tanto a seu trabalho solo, quanto aos sucessos de seu pai e as lembranças do Melody Makers.

"Positive Vibration", de Bob Marley, foi o primeiro cover interpretado, ainda no começo do show. Até o final, Ziggy lembraria outros clássicos de seu pai, como "Get up, Stand up", "Concrete Jungle' e "Jamming", que teve direito a uma sessão de improviso entre os músicos, entre várias outras composições.

Com a cabeça levantada, parecendo resgatar memórias da época dos Melody Makers - grupo formado junto com seus irmãos, no final dos anos 70, no qual Ziggy começou de fato sua carreira musical - ele trouxe o hino "Tomorrow People". Na hora do refrão de "Justice", Ziggy e suas cantoras de apoio levantavam os braços direitos, e pregava justiça para todas as pessoas espalhadas no planeta. Destaque também para "Shalom Shalaam" e para "Dragonfly", faixa homônima de seu disco lançado em 2003.

Depois de quase uma hora e meia de apresentação, ele retornou para um bis de trinta minutos, que foi encerrado com a faixa-título "Love is my Religion". Músico e banda deixaram o palco em seguida, sem ao menos se despedir.

Prestes a completar 38 anos, Ziggy se apresenta nesta sexta (6) e sábado (7) no Rio de Janeiro e domingo (8) em Curitiba. A turnê sul-americana termina em Lima, no Peru. Até dezembro ele excursiona por todo os Estados Unidos.

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Nota Reggaesoul: Complicado Ziggy fazer show. Se não rolar as já conhecidas da época dos Melody Makers e pontear com algumas do pai, é cobrado na certa! Ótimo show, mas minhas espectativas eram para mais faixas de seus 2 últimos álbuns.

Cidade Negra celebra 20 anos de carreira com CD e DVD ao vivo

Guga Azevedo
UOL Música

Divulgação

Para comemorar duas décadas de atividade, o grupo carioca Cidade Negra lança nesta semana o CD e DVD "Direto", que traz uma apresentação ao vivo gravada na Fundição Progresso, Rio de Janeiro, em abril deste ano.

Além de mostrar os principais sucessos da banda com novos arranjos, o lançamento ainda traz outras surpresas. "Sabemos que temos um histórico feliz com nossos hits radiofônicos, mas não colocamos todos eles no disco. As faixas estão dividas entre as músicas inéditas, lados B e os hits", revelou Toni Garrido, vocalista do grupo há 13 anos.

A seleção do material foi baseada nas opções dos fãs, declara Garrido. "O público tem o mesmo gosto que o nosso. Eles ouvem nossas músicas nas rádios, compram os discos e conhecem o resto de nosso trabalho. Foi pensando assim que selecionamos as faixas. E demos certo destaque às músicas que gostamos e que não emplacaram nas rádios, como 'Os Anjos', 'Palavras Cortam Mais que Navalha', entre outras".

O projeto para a gravação de "Direto" teve de ser adiado diversas vezes, mas, segundo Garrido, a idéia existe desde outubro do ano passado. Neste meio tempo, a banda continuou produzindo e agora mostra o material inédito no lançamento. Algumas dessas músicas aparecem durante o show e as gravadas em estúdio entraram como material extra. Versões ao vivo de "B.boys", "Bamba", "Hoje" e "Você Que Não Acredita", e as gravações de estúdio para "O Paraíso Tem um Tempo Bom", "O Tempo Ta Passando" e "Negro Rei" estão nos dois formatos. O DVD conta com mais algumas novidades, como "O Vacilão", "Ninguém Merece", ao vivo, e "Camuflagem", em estúdio.

Apesar da grande quantidade de material novo, Garrido afirma que a banda não está prestes a lançar um novo disco de estúdio. "Quando fizemos esse trabalho já tínhamos oito músicas novas, durante os ensaios para a gravação estávamos com 14 músicas ao todo. Vamos sair em turnê agora e depois pensar em um disco novo", revela.

"Nunca tínhamos feito um disco ao vivo. Gravamos o 'Acústico MTV', que não mostra exatamente a essência do Cidade Negra. Somos uma banda de estrada e esse é o nosso show", completa o cantor.

Convidados

As participações especiais ficaram por conta dos Paralamas do Sucesso e Lulu Santos. Para Garrido essa escolha foi feita porque eles "são artistas com quem mantemos contato direto, íntimo e carinhoso durante esses anos. Ambos são dois braços fortes para o Cidade Negra e sempre foram generosos conosco, desde o começo de nossa carreira".

Herbert Vianna e sua trupe aparecem tocando um medley de "Soldado da Paz" (com autoria de Vianna e cedida ao Cidade Negra), "La Bella Luna" e uma referência a "A Novidade". O DVD ainda conta com o clássico dos Paralamas "Selvagem" tocado pelas duas bandas juntas. Lulu Santos canta "Sábado à Noite" e participa de uma composição inédita, chamada "Ninguém Merece".

O Cidade Negra foi formado no final dos anos 80, em Belford Roxo, no Rio de Janeiro. Quando Toni Garrido assumiu os vocais do grupo, eles já haviam lançados dois álbuns e tinham certo destaque entre os fãs de reggae, com direito a apresentações no Hollywood Rock e no festival Sunsplash, na Jamaica. Além de Garrido nos vocais, o grupo é composto por Lazão na bateria, vocais e composições, o baixista Bino Farias e Da Gama nas guitarras.

Na Jamaica, elogios ao Brasil - E tome pechincha...

Vendedores adoram brasileiros - e não é só para empurrar artigos: querem saber mais sobre o País

Fábio Vendrame

MONTEGO BAY - Qualquer brasileiro terá trabalho para se desvencilhar dos vendedores em um mercado jamaicano. Não só porque eles são insistentes ao empurrar suas mercadorias, mas por causa da imensa curiosidade que têm sobre o Brasil. ´Sou fã da seleção brasileira, o maior time de futebol do mundo´, diz um deles. Depois de tal elogio, fica difícil não pôr a mão no bolso.

Mas nunca sem pechinchar! Assim como em muitos outros países, os vendedores costumam chutar o preço duas vezes acima do que vale o produto. ´No futebol, eu sou Brasil, mas sou jamaicano nos negócios´, justifica o artesão Steve Beckford, de 39 anos.

Ele trabalha há sete anos no Mercado de Artesanato de Montego Bay, na Harbour Street, s/nº. Dá vida a pedaços inertes de madeira, que tomam forma de bustos de Bob Marley, elefantes e girafas. ´Esses animais que jamais habitaram nossa ilha são cultuados pelo povo por serem africanos.´

Um pouco mais adiante fica o estande de Marilyn Malcolm, de 45 anos. ´É um negócio de família, herdei da minha mãe, que herdou da minha avó.´ Marilyn trabalha mais com tecidos. Vende peças de praia, como cangas e vestidinhos, de fazer inveja às melhores lojas de Maresias e Ipanema. Nada na loja dela, a princípio, custa menos de US$ 10. Por sinal, os vendedores aceitam tanto os dólares americanos como a moeda local. ´Mas faço um desconto para você, que é brasileiro.´

O mercado tem 254 lojas e deveria funcionar todos os dias, mas, na prática, cada vendedor sabe quando deve abrir e fechar seu ponto. ´Funciona assim mesmo. Por isso, é melhor comprar o que você gostou agora, para garantir´, diz Marcia Johnson. ´Não arrisque. Mais tarde posso estar fechada.´

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Na boa, quer conhecer de verdade a Jamaica? Vá para Kingston e seus rincões!

Africa Unite Festivities Heading To South Africa

Diane Coetzer, Johannesburg
The 2007 Africa Unite festivities will take place in three South African cities next February, Bob Marley's widow Rita announced today (Sept. 5).

The month-long celebration, now in its third year, will begin with an opening ceremony in the coastal city of Durban on Feb. 6, what would have been Marley's 62nd birthday. A benefit concert will take place the following day in Durban.

Two further concerts are on tap: the Africa Unite For Empowerment Benefit Concert on Feb. 17 in Johannesburg, and the Africa Unite for Peace Benefit Concert on Feb. 24 in Cape Town. Venues and artists for these concerts will be confirmed in the coming months, although Mrs. Marley said members of her family will be among the performers.

Other planned activities include the launch of Rita Marley's book, "No Woman No Cry," the Africa Unite "You Can't Blame the Youth" education symposium and workshops from Feb. 9-13, and a "One Love" fundraising dinner on Feb. 14 at Johannesburg's Constitutional Hill.

The Bob Marley and the Rita Marley Foundations will stage Africa Unite in partnership with Thirty-Three Productions, Inc, based in Los Angeles, with Mrs. Marley taking the role of executive director for the event.

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Addressing a press conference at the University of Johannesburg, Marley said today that the choice of South Africa to host the third Africa Unite was part of a "divine order" that began in Ethiopia (2005) and then moved to Ghana (2006), where she now lives.

"We are now coming to South Africa -- it's for South Africans at home and abroad to realize that we are part of it [uniting Africa]," she said. "It's not just leaving it to the government to make decisions and tell us what to do ... We are going to stick with it until we see African unification."

She also revealed that the initiative would return to South Africa in 2010, the year the country hosts the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament.

Stephen Marley - "Mind Control", seu primeiro álbum solo

October 03, 2006, 3:10 PM ET
Wes Orshoski, N.Y.
"Mind Control," the long-awaited solo debut from reggae royalty Stephen Marley, will be released on Feb. 6 via Tuff Gong/Ghetto Youths/Universal Republic. The set will feature cameos from friends and admirers Ben Harper and Mos Def.

"Mind Control" will arrive on what would have been the 62nd birthday of Stephen's iconic father. Marley previewed tracks from the album in between choice covers of his father's songs on this past summer's Roots, Rock, Reggae festival, also featuring older brother Ziggy and Bunny Wailer.

Since the dissolution of the Marley sibling group the Melody Makers, Stephen has racked up credits as a producer and co-writer en route to five Grammy wins, more than any other reggae artist. He helmed younger brother Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley's past two records, including the breakthrough hit "Welcome to Jamrock," which won a best reggae album Grammy.

As previously reported, Stephen will join his mother, Rita Marley, and Damian in South Africa in February for Africa Unite 2007, a series of benefit concerts, symposiums, fundraisers and events in Durban, Johannesburg, and Cape Town.

The Wailer and the Prince of Wales

The Sunday Times of London ran the following story this week:

"The Prince of Wales will unveil a plan this month to clean up a Yardie ghetto in Jamaica that was home to Bob Marley and the pioneers of reggae. Prince Charles is to replace concrete apartment blocks overrun by marauding gunmen in Kingston, the capital, with traditional lime-washed bungalows surrounded by palm trees."

The story went on to say that The Prince's Foundation, Charles' architectural charity, had drawn up plans to redevelop a section of Trench Town, and that the initiative would mean new homes for 3,000 people. The paper said that Charles' representatives would officially announce the plan in Jamaica later in October.

Bob Marley was not overly fond of royalty--with the exception of the Emperor Haile Selassie, who is revered as a God by Rastafari. Prince Charles and Bob Marley's paths did cross: Bob played at the Indepedence Day celebrations in Zimbabwe in 1980 which Prince Charles attended.

But Bob was about the lower classes, not the high-born; he was concerned with concrete jungles, not towering castles. With such songs as " Trench Town," "Trench Town Rock," and "No Woman, No Cry," Bob celebrated his rough roots in Trench Town , a slum area in Jamaica's capitol city of Kingston.

Trench Town was developed as low-income housing in the 1920s. Its planners hoped that the area would provide comfortable and dignified housing for war veterans, but it was soon in decline.

Between 1921 and 1943, the population in the Kingston metro area doubled from 60,000 to 120,000. One city survey found an average density of 3.6 people per room. In Trench Town around the time Marley was growing up, it became not uncommon for 8 people to share a single room.

Yet this was the same area that inspired some of Marley's greatest music. He famously sang of sitting in a "government yard" in Trench Town in the song "No Woman, No Cry." Music was the star attraction in the Trench Town of Marley's youth. Songs blasted from jukeboxes in bars, from storefront churches, from amateur musicians harmonizing with one another. Sound systems--DJ booths on wheels--went up and down the streets, vying for listeners.

Marley and his fellow Wailers, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, practiced in the same streets, in these same yards, honing their vocals and polishing the songs that would bring them stardom.

Bob didn't idealize poverty. He condemned the "Rat Race," and the "Babylon System" that he said oppressed the poor. But he made music, in part, to provide for his family and to lift himself and those close to him out of the land of the sufferers. He drove a BMW, and when reporters asked him about it, he said it stood for " Bob Marley and the Wailers."

Bob made music that served as an alternative vision to the colonial system; he created songs that he hoped would help free people from a mindset of self-loathing and dependence.

On Sunday, August 5, 1962, Jamaica celebrated its first Independence Day. Church bells were tolled in Port Antonio. There were colorful, traditional Jonkanoo dances in the roadways of Ocho Rios. Everywhere around the island, the Union Jack was lowered, and the black, gold and green Jamaican flag was raised to the sky. It was among Jamaica's proudest moments.

That's why it's eyebrow-raising, decades after Bob's death, almost a half century after Jamaica's independence from Britain, that the island is getting help from British royalty. Yes, Jamaica could probably use the assistance. And no, there's nothing really wrong with accepting a hand when you need a leg up. But certainly many Jamaicans must long for the days when they looked for inspiration from the King of Reggae and not a Prince of England. To paraphrase Marley, none but ourselves can free our minds.

Christopher John Farley is the author of the new biography "Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley." Farley is also the author of the new novel "Kingston by Starlight."
For more about Farley's work, visit Myspace.com/cjfarley

'RENT A RASTA' - A documentary on sex tourism in the Caribbean

Sex tourism, a product of slavery, is not new to the Caribbean. Three flights are due into Montego Bay, one from Toronto, one from Fort Lauderdale, the other from London. Every year over 80,000 middle-aged women flock to Jamaica in search of the ''big bamboo.'' They are not necessarily into long-term relationships, but many return regularly to their island boy who sport Rastafarian-style dreadlocks, bringing money and gifts like jewelry and designer sneakers, a practice called "rent a rasta."



The first recorded slaving voyage from the UK to West Africa was made in 1562 by Devon born Captain John Hawkins who captured 300 people from what is now Sierra Leone, to be sold as slaves in the Caribbean. The profit he made from that voyage allowed him to get backing and approval for further slaving ventures from Queen Elizabeth I. In fact, Hawkins was knighted shortly after his second successful African venture. His coat of arms depicted the head of an African woman with a chain around her neck



In excerpt of the narrative from the documentary contains an interview with Karen, an English- woman from Devon. In it, she reveals her reason for visiting Jamaica without any qualms. "I''m not naïve, I''ve been around the block. I come for sex, of course the sun, but mostly the sex." A forty-five-year-old Caucasian woman from Chicago voiced the view that American women come to Negril because they are able to get what they cannot get at home. "A girl who no one looks at twice gets hit on all the time here, all these guys are paying her attention, telling her shes really beautiful, and they really want her. In Chicago this could never happen. Here it is like a secret, a fantasy ...and then you go home." In addition to an exploration of Jamaica''s sex tourism, the documentary also delves into the world of Rastafari. "It epitomises Caribbean sex tourism with a twist in that it humanises Jamaicans who "fill milk bottles" (local slang for white women) and at the same time opens a path of understanding to contemporary Rasta culture, rather unknown to western audiences."


But who are the real Rastafari and how do they feel about being used to market everything Jamaican?


Rastafari have been greatly underestimated by the outside world. The classical Rastas were sophisticated theological and philosophical thinkers, not cultists worshiping newspaper photos of an African King. They discovered many sophisticated theological concepts for themselves and had retraced many of the Christological and other debates of the early Church. They brought forth a rich cultural and artistic legacy, including some of the twentieth century''s most moving hymnography.



RENT a RASTA is an extraordinary glimpse into a paradise laced with cultural misunderstandings and socioeconomic inequities. It is also causing a great deal of controversy among the ''real Rastafarians'' and some reviews describe it as being ''confusing''.

RENT A RASTA will have its World Premier in New Hampshire Film Expo Oct 12 -15, 2006

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I & I Sound - Chacoalho Delivery

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Dando uma olhada rápida, a outrora van do sorvete tem hoje potência em watts à dar com pau.

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Viajando na web encontrei matéria num site Californiano sobre esta cantora paulista, que faz um mix com MPB, Samba, Jazz, Bossa Nova, Hip-Hop, Dub e tudo o mais em sua música. Caramba...e não é que a moça tem um som bacana? Gostei...

Tá lançando agora seu álbum, intitulado "ll:ll", numa produção Brasil X EUA (vive lá e cá a moça). Recomendo a escuta!

Para ouvir ou maiores informações, é só acessar a página pessoal dela no Myspace.

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'I'm Not A Homophobe' Reggae Singer Says

(New York City) Jamaican reggae artists Buju Banton is accusing gay activists of trying to sabotage his career.

Banton is on a cross country tour promoting a new album but in almost every city he has been met by angry protests and in some cases the cancellation of his concerts.

"I have never bashed any gays before, and if I bashed gays, I bashed them 16 years ago," Banton tells Billboard magazine in an interview conducted on his tour bus. "There's no tolerance from [the gay community]. I'm not a gay-basher. I'm not a homophobe."

Gay rights groups disagree, pointing to the 1992 single "Boom Bye Bye" which was re-released last year and urges listeners to shoot gay men in the head, pour acid over them and burn them alive.

Last week a Banton concert was cancelled in Los Angeles after the club was made aware of the music. Another concert in San Francisco also was cancelled. In Boulder Colorado and Eugene, Oregon Banton concerts were met with demonstrations.

In January Banton was found not guilty in his native Jamaica of being involved in a vicious gay bashing.

The prosecution alleged that Banton was one of a group of men who forced their way into a home and attacked six men they believed were gay.

Human rights groups said that the not guilty verdict was more a result of his celebrity status than his guilt or innocence.

In his interview with Billboard Banton said he was fairly acquitted and gays should let him get on with his life.

But Banton's music and that of other reggae artists the call for violence against gays is blamed for a number of homophobic crimes, mainly in Jamaica.

Last year Lenford "Steve" Harvey who ran Jamaica AIDS Support for Life was shot to death on the eve of World AIDS Day. The year before Brian Williamson Jamaica's most vocal advocate of LGBT rights was murdered.

Paz, amor e muito reggae na ilha caribenha que preza a boa-vida

Nota Reggaesoul: Matéria do Jornal Estadão / Caderno Turismo de hoje.

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Paz, amor e muito reggae na ilha caribenha que preza a boa-vida Pontuada por resorts onde tudo está incluído, país atrai casais apaixonados e ensina lições de respeito

Fábio Vendrame

KINGSTON - A Jamaica é reggae, sol e praia. É amarela, verde e preta na bandeira nacional, ostentada com orgulho pelo povo. É paz, amor e respeito, bordão repetido a todo momento pelos locais ao cumprimentar amigos e turistas. Em vez do aperto de mão, um gesto de punho cerrado que termina com um toque em direção ao coração e a frase ´one love, one love´.

A Jamaica fala inglês. A expressão ´no problem!´ é adicionada ao fim de quase toda frase, num sinal de que os visitantes não têm com que se preocupar. E não têm mesmo. O forte do turismo na terceira maior ilha do Caribe são os resorts de sistema all-inclusive (tudo incluído).

Esses redutos de boa-vida garantem o melhor em conforto e paparicos. Assim que chegam a um hotel da rede Sandals, uma das maiores do Caribe, os visitantes são recebidos com coquetéis e ganham uma nécessaire completa, com xampu, condicionador, hidratante e cremes.

Do lado de fora dos resorts, a Jamaica também fala patois, dialeto que mistura espanhol, inglês e línguas africanas. ´Entre nós preferimos falar o patois (eles pronunciam ´pátua´ e não ´patuá´, como se fala no Brasil), porque o inglês é uma língua que nos foi imposta, não nos traz boas recordações´, diz o artista jamaicano Andrew Peart.

Descoberta em 1494 por Cristóvão Colombo, a ilha ficou sob o jugo espanhol até 1655, ano em que os ingleses tomaram posse. O trabalho de escravos africanos nas lavouras de cana-de-açúcar foi uma constante até a abolição, em 1834. E a independência só ocorreu em 1962, mesmo assim a muito custo.

Peart, como todo jamaicano, faz questão de falar da história de seu povo. Um povo que levou séculos para escolher seus representantes, para ter bandeira própria. ´O verde, de nossas plantações e riquezas naturais, é a esperança; o amarelo, do sol que brilha sempre forte e quente, é a nossa perseverança; e o preto, cor da nossa gente, é o nosso orgulho.´

Nesse longo processo rumo à independência, o povo jamaicano fundiu influências culturais até encontrar identidade própria, expressa sobretudo na música reggae. Ícone máximo do ritmo, Robert Nesta Marley - o Bob Marley - deixou ao mundo uma mensagem de paz. Mas também de coragem: suas letras exigem respeito, exaltam o amor e lembram que jamais se deve deixar de lutar por seus direitos.

A adoração ao músico não é coisa só para turista ver - Bob estampa camisetas, pôsteres, máscaras e quadros, como os pintados por Peart. ´Ele não foi: é e sempre será uma lenda, alguém que veio para jamais ser esquecido.´

Apesar de referências a Bob Marley estarem por toda parte, quem quiser saber mais sobre o músico morto precocemente aos 36 anos, em 1981, deve ir até Nine Miles, cidadezinha nas montanhas a cerca de duas horas de carro de Ocho Ríos. Ali, os turistas poderão ver a casa em que Bob nasceu e os locais onde buscava inspiração.

De hippie a chique

Peart recomenda o passeio. ´Acho que é uma boa maneira de se integrar com a Jamaica´, diz, de frente para o mar de Negril, destino da moda no país. Antigo reduto hippie, a cidade recebeu uma avalanche de investimentos nos últimos anos e hoje está pontuada de resorts e endereços badalados, como o Rick´s Café. Um roteiro na Jamaica não pode deixar de fora esse paraíso, onde a legislação impede que as construções ultrapassem a altura das palmeiras.

Entre Negril e Whitehouse, outro destino que começa a despontar, está o circuito de cachoeiras de YS Falls. A série de sete quedas-d´água é programa para toda a família, ideal para se refrescar do calor na ilha, onde os termômetros marcam sempre algo entre 28 e 35 graus.

Negril é imperdível, mas tudo começa em Montego Bay. A 1h10 de avião de Miami, a cidade virou a capital turística. Tem o maior aeroporto do país, ótima rede de hospedagem e diversos atrativos. A capital oficial da Jamaica, vale lembrar, é Kingston, mas, em geral, os pacotes das agências de viagens passam longe da metrópole de 1 milhão de habitantes, por ser considerada violenta.

A partir de MoBay, modo como a cidade é chamada pelos jamaicanos, tem início uma viagem de descobertas e de muita boa-vida - nos resorts, é claro -, pautada desde o momento do desembarque pela trilogia paz, amor e respeito.

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20 de OUT. 2006 sexta 22:30H

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