Say it with music

Post by **mousey1** » May 22nd, 2007, 11:48 pm

what it you may well be asking

just it!

any it!

all the its!

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Post by **mnaz** » May 27th, 2007, 6:49 pm

Never learned a musical instrument (yet), so sometimes I'll say it with a mix tape... yes, that's right... a tape... like reliving my youth... haven't finished one in years...

But I started one yesterday.... another roots reggae excursion I sometimes get lost on-- the deep down "conscious" roots from the '70s-'80s Jamaican scene-- this time kick-started by a couple of stellar discs I picked up recently... Keith Hudson, Lee Perry, et. al...... Yeh, I'm aware of the genre's criticisms (and limitations)-- too male-dominated, too rasta-religious, too simply socialist, too this, too that... yet those bedrock rhythms and generally straightforward and to the point lyrics are powerful stuff, really...

Much of it has to do with disenfranchisement of displaced (and culture-deprived) African descendants throughout the world over the past 400 years if I heard correctly, but it's hard to listen to a song like Wailing Souls' smoky, apocalyptic "Kingdom Rise, Kingdom Fall" and not hear its relevance to a wider disenfranchisement of "the masses" via creeping international corporate fascism (that trend, even in supposedly "free" countries) and a growing, or at least ongoing, disconnect between government and the people it's supposed to "serve". Well, that's what I'm hearin', at least....

And as for "join Rasta or face ruin" type of songs: most of this music was written from within impoverished and violent Kingston neighborhoods, and Rasta was seen as a "way out"; perhaps the only real alternative.... Maybe that's part of my connection-- that rudimentary idea of "escape", or repatriation from Babylon in the most general sense-- and why I've come to associate the music with my own wandering through deserts "off the grid" (if there really is such a thing)... well that, and dub reverb can easily be imagined as bouncing off bare mountains and canyons...

Anyway, I'm all rambly brambly here... didn't mean to go off like that... I'm just diggin' on it, that's all... Here's what I have so far...

Congoman - Congos
Dread a Dread - Johnny Clarke
Braces Tower Dub - Augustus Pablo
Chancery Dub - Bim Sherman
Freedom - Earl Sixteen
Mash Down - Roots
Foundation Dub - Lee Perry
African Style Version - The Upsetter
Melody Maker ver. 2 - The Chuckles
Healing Up the Land - Keith Hudson
Yagga Yagga - Lee and Jimmy
Rise and Shine - Watty and Tony
Who No Waan Come - Wailing Souls

Oh Me, Oh My - Bree Daniels
Cool Rastaman Cool - Steve Boswell
Iyahta - King Tubby
Tribulation Dub - Bim Sherman
Kingdom Rise, Kingdom Fall - Wailing Souls...

That's where I'm at.... gotta love the 3-day weekend...

And the mix will be a perfect counterpoint to the incessant war glorification tomorrow; justifiable or not.... if that seems a slap in the face to veterans we're supposed to remember and honor... I'm sorry. I think of it more as retroactive advocacy....

Wow... this post has really gotten long.... Mousey, see what you've done?

Post by **mnaz** » May 27th, 2007, 11:22 pm

Not that the "not so conscious stuff" is bad (whatever that really means)...

Post by **mnaz** » May 29th, 2007, 12:04 am

it took awhile...

finally found an old mixed up King Tubby dub set from the radio to follow the Souls..

then... African Version, by U Brown..
Jah Jah - Gladiators
Rasta Footprints - Viceroys
Black Dignity - Peter Tosh
Darkest Night on a Wet looking Road - Keith Hudson
Bredda Gravalicious - Wailing Souls
Sufferer's Choice - Sugar Minott
Love I - Soul Syndicate

Hopeful and quietly subversive at times, as I remember, as it is..

Post by **mousey1** » June 1st, 2007, 12:42 pm

Vunderful, mnaz. I'm going to have to track down some of these tunes for my listening pleasure, I am sure it shall give a little flavour of just the who in you actually is.

Music has such a wonderful way of expressing how we feel. A tune can really hit our nails right on the head.

If I can find some of them I'll post them here for other's enjoyment.

Wow... this post has really gotten long.... Mousey, see what you've done?

Good. I'm glad. What's that quote from ol' Shakeyspeare?...I'll google it...

voila...

"If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!"
"Twelfth Night" (1.1.1-7)

How sweet it is.

Post by **mnaz** » June 3rd, 2007, 4:13 pm

excellent...

some of this stuff is pretty obscure... definitely.

Post by **mousey1** » June 4th, 2007, 12:00 pm

I could only find this one so far...

http://www.radioblogclub.com/open/11305 ... s-Congoman

"Obscure" indeed, but I'll pick away and see how many I can find.

You are probably aware of it but
http://www.blackmindrecords.com/radio.htm has a nice reggae channel for steady play music. You can't pick and choose but it's pretty good.

streamstash also has some but they won't play for me.

for example...

King Tubby...
at http://www.streamstash.com/gecko/ so that's useless...

Post by **mnaz** » June 21st, 2007, 11:50 am

yeh mousey... i came of age listening to the "positive vibrations" reggae show, broadcast from the U of Washington's campus every Saturday morning... (actually, the show still survives, though in a slightly more corporate sense, transmitted from Experience Music Project in Seattle on KEXP, 90.3 FM)... i haven't listened in awhile... someday i should have my own show, methinks...

...mixed in 'cool rasta', by the heptones and 'free africa', by yabby you, along with some more streetwise rhythms... 'worries in the dance', by frankie paul and 'sinsemilla dub', by black uhuru, etc...

nice mix indeed...

Post by **mnaz** » February 27th, 2008, 5:44 pm

i know this is an old thread, but please bear with...

finished up that mixtape end o' june... and no, the viceroys didn't make the final cut. and then i made another one... finished it right as the 4th o' july bombs were exploding over the bay...

a.
baba kill me a goat- laurel aitken
israelites- desmond dekker
eastern standard time- skatalites
plague of horn- tommy mccook
jah in the hills- augustus pablo
spying glass- horace andy
zion's blood- lee perry
desiree dub- keith hudson
your eyes dub- scientist
war- wailing souls
dub there- horace andy
love forever dub- bim sherman
throw down your arms- burning spear
black vest/dread lion- lee perry
tel aviv drums- glen brown
so long- mystic revelation
run come rally- ras michael

b.
ire ire- keith hudson
four hundred years- mystic revelation
three in one- lee perry
be aware dub- mighty diamonds
skylarking- horace andy
no commitment- keith hudson
washroom skank- upsetters
a so we stay- big youth
the immortal dub- king tubby
dub along/patience- lee perry
fly natty dread- meditations
dread satta version- king tubby
troubles- keith hudson
track six- scientist
super ape- lee perry

tape sat for most of 3-4 months, but heavy in my rotation last five, six, seven weeks... the upsetter/perry tracks power the whole thing... smoldering jam-ness... 'washroom skank' is hilarious. missteps? well... the 'skylarking'-'no commitment' couplet never quite jelled, and 'the immortal dub' carries on a bit too long, but other than that... another successful alternate dub jam universe created!

why do i mention all this? good fucking question. my sister just shakes her head at these long dub reggae cycles i get lost in from time to time... "he's reeaallly into it", she says. no reasonable explanation for it, really.

and where ya been mousey? we miss ya.

Post by **mousey1** » March 7th, 2008, 6:31 pm

Why thank you, mnaz. Nice to be missed.

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why do i mention all this? good fucking question. my sister just shakes her head at these long dub reggae cycles i get lost in from time to time... "he's reeaallly into it", she says. no reasonable explanation for it, really.

And why do you post it? Show it? Hang it out for the world, or at least some small chunk of it? Because it means something to you. And we all get a little obsessive about those things that mean, really mean something.

We immerse ourselves in them and begin to feel a whole lot better for the closeness. To surround yourself with that you love and enjoy, to keep it close at hand. To caress it, if not with hand at least with mind and spirit gentle.

Or at least that would be my thinking.

Post by **mousey1** » March 7th, 2008, 6:43 pm

Music resonates deep. The reverb coursing through veins and tingling toes. What an awful world without the music to keep us sane. Calm the inconsolable, express the often inexpressible. Relate. And sometimes it's just about the steady beat to which one doesn't have to think at all.

I prefer to hear each word quietly sounding, the calming effects massaging temples throbbing at oft felt strain.

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