Playing ska, reggae, and lovers rock from the ‘60s onwards, join Vincent Vaughan on Level the Vibes on Saturdays from 4:00 until 6:00 pm, only on CJSW 90.9 FM and www.cjsw.com on the internet.
Reggae in its pure form I do enjoy, but the lack of virtuosity in the genre does make it seem somewhat redundant/repetitive after a while. And I even play in a reggae band.
Ragga-Jungle, on the other hand, I find absolutely excellent. Here is one of many random mixes from YouTube to illustrate.
Oddly enough Iceland has a really popular Reggae band, who went to Jamaica and played with a whole bunch of greats to make one of their albums. If anyone is interested I can post their documentary which delves into the Jamaican scene, a fun doc to check out.
This turf war led to spiraling poverty and savage violence. It was the kind of trauma described and transmuted into song by the great Bob Marley (referred to in the novel as the Singer), who in 1976, amid unprecedented bloodshed, announced a free concert to promote peace in Kingston. (Marley was himself caught between the J.L.P. and P.N.P., along with their criminal gangs.) At the same time, outside forces including the C.I.A., anti-Castro Cubans and the Colombian drug cartels were converging on Jamaica with money and guns.
If all this sounds confusing, it’s because it’s true. On Dec. 3, before he could give the peace concert, Marley was ambushed at his house by a band of gunmen, shot twice, and almost murdered. After that, organized crime in Jamaica went international.
Sly and Robbie are a prolific Jamaicanrhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae genre. Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robert Shakespeare teamed up in the mid-1970s after establishing themselves separately in Jamaica as professional musicians. Sly and Robbie are estimated to have played on or produced 200,000 recordings, many of them on their own label, Taxi Records.
I'm serious. This is the biggest reggae band people don't realize are reggae. For a lot of people who can't get into reggae, I point this out. Once they realize that and notice the hooks and motifs, you can learn to appreciate the genre.
Still one of my all time favourite artists, the track is from 1964 but on a full size stereo the bass line still kicks almost anything else of the turntable.
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What Raggae do you listen to?
