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...John Maclean (samples and keyboards), Richard Greentree (bass) and Robin Jones (drums and keyboards), all in their late twenties - show themselves to be adept with both traditional melodies and electronic special effects. On "Human Being," for example, they open with a skittering drum machine beat that might impress a Jamaican dance hall producer, and, accompanied by piano, horns and synthesizers, proceed to harmonize Crosby, Stills and Nash-style before they let loose with pounding real-life drums and electric guitar. Mason's baritone is only slightly brighter than Ringo Starr's, and his delivery is just as lackadaisical. His voice...
...countries. Near my office in New York City, a branch of Pier 1 Imports looks like a cross between a yard sale and the great house of a rubber plantation in Southeast Asia. You can buy everything from Filipino and Indonesian cabinets to a Kyoto dining room and a Jamaican bedroom. (Jamaica as a source of fashionable bedroom furniture--who knew...
Harvard's James Bullock also played sound squash after being eliminated from the main draw. The Jamaican coasted through the consolation bracket and eliminated Williams' Parth Doshi to capture the Consolation II title...
However, most of the audience's focus-when it wasn't on their chosen dance partner-was on the Spear. Every time he raised his voice, the crowd went wild, hooting and waving Jamaican flags. And Burning Spear seemed to feed off of the crowd's energy as he chanted and scatted his way through "I and I Survive." Now and again, he would egg the crowd on, asking, "Do you want some more?" Then, responding to the crowd's cheering response, he would add, "Then I will give yo' ass some more...
...also encountered drama outside her romantic life. In 1998 a judge in Kingston, Jamaica, ordered an arrest warrant for Sade after she failed to appear at a hearing on reckless-driving charges. "It wasn't really a traffic incident, to be honest," says Sade, who claims that a Jamaican policeman tried to pressure her into giving him a bribe. "It got blown into some incredible farcical event." In order to avoid arrest, Sade says she plans never to return to the island...