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...Jah Malla and The Real Kids--The Club...
...Jah Malla and The Real Kids--The Club...
...there is more violence and the economy continues to stagger. Many Jamaicans are convinced that will be the case. In the sad words of a current hit by Ernie Smith, one of Kingston's top reggae singers, "As we fight one another fe de power and de glory, jah kingdom goes to waste...
Adjusting the levers on his four-track console, Jamaican Record Producer Lee Perry does absent-minded dance steps on a patchwork carpet composed of Ethiopia's national colors. On the studio side of the control booth's soundproof window, a singer implores "Jah," the black god who many Jamaicans believe was Haile Selassie, to deliver him from Babylon. Seated on the floor are half a dozen musicians whose hair is plaited into myriad ominous, serpentine "dreadlocks." Each man reverently smokes a large, cone-shaped "splif" filled with marijuana, and all nod agreeably whenever the singer alludes to Africa...
...week's end, over Radio Tirana, brash Enver Hoxha (pronounced Ho-jah), carried the attack directly to Khrushchev, warning that Albania "was not alone" in resisting Khrushchev's "calumnies, blackmail and blockade." The main issue, said Hoxha, was settling the problem of West Berlin and signing a peace treaty with East Germany. He bluntly accused Khrushchev of dragging his feet and of delaying "from year to year...