Mind blowing documentary on reggae music in UK titled »Reggae Britannia« which shows how well tax money could be spend on public TV, something we could only dream about in Germany. [...] essential viewing!
– via Man Recordings
PS: Find 30 additional »Reggae Britannia« short clips on the BBC Music Showcase website.
– via Peter Dean Rickards
Over on the Distant Relatives website, they just released the first two of three videos documenting Nas’ and Damian Marley’s journey of shooting the »Land of Promise« video in Jamaica. Real history right here! (via Trrbo)
Hope Road is the first film and is the story of that first night. I remember before I even had a chance to set the camera up right Nas was like “Yo, yo film this… “ and launched into the whole speech he gives here about “Smokin’ Cubans on the steps of Bob Marley…” from there on I knew I had to keep the camera up and ready to go. Please wait for the little surprise after the credits… Dawn on Hope Road
Dubplates at Tuff Gong, is Part Two. On the third night Damian and Stephen Marley went to work over a new Stephen song called ‘Jah Army.’ The song is pure heat. Dubplates are the stock and trade of the Jamaican musician. Tuff Gong itself is a place filled with so much history as Stephen explains to Nas at the beginning – even Bunny Wailer made an surprise appearance.
Credit: Filmed and edited by Michael Katzif; photo by Abby Verbosky/NPR
For the latest installment of their Tiny Desk Concert series, NPR’s Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton invited Reggae artist Gyptian who performed »Nah Let Go«, »Beautiful Lady«, and, of course, »Hold You«.
That melody does not quit, and the whole song really lives in Gyptian’s voice. When it first came to the public’s attention last spring, it came via an unmastered leak. The song needs no bells and whistles — no pitch-shifting, no fashionable electronic drum sounds to squirm its way into your ear. (Frannie Kelley)
Funny fact: »Hold You« was not only the biggest international Reggae tune of 2010 but also Jamaica’s most complained about song for 2010 according to latest data from the Broadcast Commission of Jamaica (via Jamaica Observer).
Listen to the audio of Gyptian’s Tiny Desk performance below and watch the video of his studio concert on the NPR website (via Ross Sheil).
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Download Gyptian’s Tiny Desk Concert at NPR
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