Not as a weekly webcast program, but as a participant witness of Jamaican culture and music as it is today. (via Downsound Records)
Once again, label boss Josef Bogdanovich and photographer Peter Dean Rickards are joining forces.
The duo had pioneered webcasting a Jamaica-based web program live from the turntables of Jamaica’s most respected sound-systems to broadband back in 1999. The program hosted and profiled the greatest that Jamaican music had to offer. From the younger sounds like Coppershot spinning tracks for a pre-famous Sean Paul, to veterans like U-Roy and King Yellowman performing live on King Stur Gav.
Listen to the first ever Kingston Signals broadcast which happened at 80 Constant Spring Road in Kingston Jamaica on December 1999 below. It featured Exodus Nuclear as the lead sound with artists such as Spragga Benz and Delly Ranks making appearances.
Jamaican deejay LA Lewis – best known for meeting Prince Charles, being beat up by Beenie Man, and having his name painted on walls all over Kingston – turns a conceptual artist. Watch »The Seven Star General« announcing the news on yesterday’s edition of Entertainment Report above.
A lot of artist win Grammy and sell platinum records but LA Lewis actually sell his brief!
With appearances by Diplo and London-based art curator Rachael Barrett, the piece even made LA LEWIS trend globally on Twitter (via Ross Sheil). 7 to the world!
In October, Al Fingers will release a picture-heavy book on Clarks in Jamaica:
Through current and historic photographs, interviews, and previously unseen archival material, and with particular focus on the Jamaican musicians who have worn and sung about Clarks Originals shoes for years, this book explores how footwear made by a Quaker firm in the small, quiet, English village of Street, Somerset, came to be the »baddest« shoes in Jamaica.
Via some link on Facebook I came across a site called »Everybody loves Reggae« and it’s great. It features Reggae versions of artists from all kinds of musical backgrounds – from Annie Lenox to Jonny Cash, from PJ Harvey to Nina Hagen, from Primal Scream to Bob Dylan.
Today, they posted Dizzee Rascal playing »Can’t Tek No More« with Brinsley Forde on »Later with Jools Holland« on September 25, 2009.
Winston Riley, father of the legendary Techniques record label, the »wickedest riddim in the world« (Freddie McGregor on the »Stalag«), the careers of artists like Sister Nancy, Buju Banton, Cutty Ranks, Lone Ranger or Frankie Paul, and the famous Fame FM DJ Kurt Riley, is dead.
Riley died in hospital yesterday from the effects of a gunshot wound he received last year. He was in a coma since he was attacked and shot in the back of the head in November last year.
- Jamaica Observer
