Word: rasta
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...born-again Christian) did not come to overpower his witty sense of both sexual and social confusion. His last album showed once again that he knew what was what in the 1980s, just as he had known in the sixties and seventies. Like his Third World Rasta Man, "he lived up to his part, 'and died' with a cause in his heart"--concerned with the precarious mental health of so many in our generation...
...little further south, Jamaican reggae producer Joe Gibbs has compiled a group of his favorite artists to give us a Christmas ganja-style. Replete with dub noises and other rasta effects. Regeae Christmas brings the spirit of Marley's ghost (Bob that is) to interpretations of old holiday faves and new Christmas songs alike "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas, a blistering, syncopated reworking of an old chestnut will keep serious music lovers swinging for many holidays to come
...little further south, Jamaican reggae producer Joe Gibbs has compiled a group of his favorite artists to give us a Christmas ganja-style. Replete with dub noises and other rasta effects. Regeae Christmas brings the spirit of Marley's ghost (Bob that is) to interpretations of old holiday faves and new Christmas songs alike "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas, a blistering, syncopated reworking of an old chestnut will keep serious music lovers swinging for many holidays to come
...Come, has a tiny mythic quality. It beats one song into a sandy grave but maintains a quick, urchin-like pace that never gets lost in the narrow, winding streets of Kingston. Rockers, simpler and less violent, doesn't show as much of the city, sticking primarily to the Rasta neighborhoods where life is slower...
Bafaloukos also has a terrific sense of humor that pops up most often when his camera captures the white tourists to Kingston. One idiotically chic couple (he wears an Andy Warhol Interview T-shirt) lock the keys in their car and have to hire a Rasta locksmith. But the clincher comes earlier, at a club restaurant where Horsemouth's band plays fast-paced reggae. A bewildered blond tourist turns to his young bride and exclaims, "This isn't calypso...