Word: rastafari
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Spear recently released his first album of new material, Freeman, since 1999’s Grammy-winning Calling Rastafari. The album does not try to update Spear’s sound with gimmicks; there are no Wyclef collaborations to distract from Spear’s solid songwriting and mellow voice...
...wisdom from one of the music's mystics. Winston Rodney-the 50-something-year-old St. Ann's, Jamaica, native who adopted his stage name from Kenyan freedom fighter Jomo Kenyatta-arrived at the Theatee District's Roxy Nightclub on the heels of his recent Grammy-winning album Calling Rastafari and with a revamped edition of his Burning Band...
...step dance was reminiscent of James Brown's bands, while their horn lines were full of jazz and folk riffs. It is the band that must be given much of the credit for raising the energy level of some of Burning Spear's more recent tunes, such as "Calling Rastafari" and "Statue of Liberty," both of which are rather low-key on the recorded versions...
...album, for which she recruited a wide range of producers, including hip-hopper Wyclef Jean, radiates forgiveness, and the music is often as sweet and smooth as strawberries and cream. A few tracks, including The Healing Room, beam with sunny reggae rhythms. The album is dedicated to "all Rastafari people." In one song, What Doesn't Belong to Me, O'Connor sings from the perspective of God, rejecting the self-segregation in the world: "I'm Irish, I'm English, I'm Muslim, I'm Jewish/I'm a girl, I'm a boy/and the goddess meant for me only...
This religion had a deep impact on his music. For those outside its mysteries, Rastafari seemed to combine Old Testament mysticism and a kind of pan-African call to arms with a liberal indulgence in sacramental ganja, or pot. Ganja has a fearful potency, but it isn't as strong as Marley's music. Rastafari remained arcane to most off-islanders, but Marley's devotion to it produced the last great soul music...