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Noah Wildman, office manager for Moon Records NYC, the four-person, all-ska label that produced the record describes Skavoovie's music as "a very swingy kind of traditional ska...
...illustrate a point, he puts on a ska CD; his nervous energy channeled to a beat: "skaskaska, skavoovie." He draws out the syllable in a luxuriant Jamaican accent. It's one of many voices he slips into during the interview, punctuating his narration with other people's lives and sounds...
...seven people wanted to get a ska band together," he begins. "They had this other kid...playing alto and it didn't really work out.... They got along, but musically it wasn't right, so I gave them my name and number...
Skavoovie's serendipitous arrival was the perfect channel. The younger ska audiences, unlike analytic jazz afficiandos, were receptive to the band's energy. And the fact that ska is still a burgeoning genre made the band's success possible...
...Skavoovie is the word that ska comes from, all right? Back in the late fifties and early sixties in Jamaica, there was a bassist called Cluet Johnson.... His greeting to people was hey mon, peace, love skavoovie. Instead of saying hey daddy-o, or what's up mon, he'd say that...