Alborosie

Alberto Dascola aka Alborosie is an Italian reggae singer, deejay and producer based in Kingston, Jamaica. He was born in Sicily in 1977 and in 1993, he formed a reggae band in Italy called Reggae National Tickets. He produced his biggest hit ‘Herbalist’ in 2006 and notably released several other singles as ‘Kingston Town’ , ‘Rastafari Anthem’, ‘Slam Bam’, ‘Life’ featuring Jah Cure and ‘Call Up Jah’ all on his own label Forward records.
He released a limited edition CD ‘Soul Pirate’ last year 2008. Including Kingston Town, Rastafari Anthem and a number of duets. including Micheal Rose and Natural Mystic with Ky-Mane Marley. Rodigan in the Intro points out reggae is an international force and a language (the author would like to point out that dreams can come true)… Alborosie follows with a song Diversity. Veteran DJ Ranking Joe also appear on Precious.

Land of Look Behind (1982)

Details

Street Date: January 30, 2007
Rating: NR
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Language: Eng
Screen Formats: WSE
Studio: Subversive Cinema
DVD Sides: 1

Review Summary

In this documentary on the Rastafarians in Jamaica (homeland of the Rastafari par excellence -- the late Bob Marley), director Alan Greenberg interviews some Jamaicans whose conversations suggest that the smoking of ganja, the worship of Haile Selassie (the former Ethiopian emperor) as a god, and the goal of Jamaican self-realization is their own kind of unified field theory. A young, poverty-stricken teenager listens to the reggae music on his radio as though it will magically lead him to a better future, and a pineapple cutter living in the "baddest" area of the island dreams of fomenting tourism in his exotic surroundings. The May, 1981 funeral of Marley himself brought Christian and Rastafarian beliefs together in tribute to the island's hero, providing one of the most poignant vignettes in the Land of Look Behind. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/28172/Land-of-Look-Behind/dvd

Land of Look Behind - Trailer

Los de Abajo

Los de Abajo are a band from Mexico City founded in 1992 as a Latin Ska four-piece. Since then they have expanded to eight members and widened their musical influences to include rock, salsa, reggae, ska, cumbia, son jarocho and banda sinaloense. Founder member Lider Terán is the main vocalist and writes many of the songs, although all band members receive equal pay for their contributions.

The band was unable to secure a record deal in Mexico, as their music was considered to be insufficiently commercial, and ended up releasing their first album Latin Ska Force independently. However, in 1999 they secured a deal with David Byrne's Luaka Bop record label to release their international debut, Los de Abajo.

The follow-up Cybertropic Chilango Power was released in 2002 and won BBC Radio 3's World Music Award for the Americas. 2006's LDA v The Lunatics saw them continue to absorb influences from around the world and included a Spanish-language version of The Fun Boy Three song "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)", featuring Neville Staples.

The band are supporters of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and have played benefits gigs for the revolutionary group. The Zapatistas' Comandante Esther features on "Resistencia", the first track on LDA v The Lunatics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_de_Abajo_(band)

WAR 4 PIECE - LYRICS

El mundo huele a guerra
si no esta y todos van directo hacia el precipicio
petroleo, violencia, masacre, molestia, la religion y militarismo.

Yo soy mexicano, soy centroamericano
siempre cantando y apoyando a mi paisano
nada me tumba, siempre estoy bien parado
en el momento y el lugar mas adecuado.

Rodeado de mi gente voy siempre hacia adelante
no hay limitaciones soy el dueño de mi mente
watch out llego el tiempo de meditar
watch out o el momento para danzar

(coro)
Jamaicano, boliviano, africano,
no se de donde vienes pero eres mi hermano
si mi cultura quieres conocer
cuenta con mi canton al que le puedes caer.
Cubano, chileno, latinoamericano,
no se de donde vienes pero eres mi hermano
si tienes problemas yo aqui voy a estar
cuentas con un carnal en el que puedes confiar.

Ouou...momentos crudos, dificiles de asimilar
Ohh no no no ohh no no no
no me importa si eres afgano, turco o musulman
en lugares personales trata de mirar al frente
ya no hay violencia que perturbe a mi gente
porque el odio y el desprecio no nos caben en la mente.

No es tiempo para matar
es tiempo de andar y brillar
no es tiempo de asesinar
es tiempo de amar.

Hoy no hay frontera que valga para detener a esta gente
ya mande todos a volar, la tierra es mi mente

This, surely, is one of the more glorious moments in the history of clashes between global music styles. There’s a stirring, south-of-the-border brassy mariachi introduction, a grand announcement ‘Rude Boy – this is made in Mexico’, and then a sudden switch to a Ska beat as Los de Abajo launch into a Spanish-language, Latin-flavoured treatment of that old Fun Boy Three hit from back in 1982, The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum), with one of the original Fun Boys, Neville Staples, joining in. This is the Ska revival as seen from a recording studio in Mexico City, and directed by the production team of Neil Sparkes and Count Dubulah, best known as those exponents of global dance music, Temple Of Sound. And it’s just one of the wildly varied styles and fusions in the Los de Abajo repertoire. So what’s different this time round? An enormous amount. The band have been touring the world (they had played in 26 countries at the last count) and they’ve been absorbing new global influences while continuing to explore their Mexican roots. As founder-member and keyboard player Carlos Cuevas puts it “our music has changed through the years, and been enriched by more influences – both by the styles we heard outside the country, and our research into Mexican music and the ways of creating a contemporary fusion”.Anyone who has seen the band playing live in recent months will know what a classy, exhilarating and impressively varied outfit they have become. Most bands strive to repeat their studio sound on stage, but Los de Abajo are such great players that for them it’s been quite the other way round. The sheer energy of their live shows, and their range of styles and influences, have not been fully reflected in their recordings until now. The band responsible for all this began back in 1992. Carlos, Liber, guitarist Vladimir Garnica and drummer Yocu Arellano met at high school, determined to “make music that was 100% danceable and cathartic, take it beyond our country’s borders, and with it a message about the political and social situation we are living through in Mexico”. Musically, they set out to mix “mestizo (half-breed) rock” with other influences from salsa to reggae and Mexican styles. According to Liber, “we’ve always had an itch to mix the local with the global”. They broke onto the international market with the help of David Byrne, who signed them to his Luaka Bop label, and suggested that their music should be called ‘punk salsa’. The band preferred the term ‘tropipunk’ (“because of the fusion of tropical rhythms”, said Liber), though he described their first album, released in 1998, as “practically a record of political songs, with a punk attitude in the lyrics, inspired by The Clash”. Since then, the band have matured as musicians, and continued to break down barriers as they popularised their music around the world, and – a harder task, amazingly enough – within Mexico itself. According to Liber “the national Mexican market was more hostile to musical fusion”. LDA v The Lunatics shows how far they’ve come.

http://www.myspace.com/losdeabajoska

TONINO CAROTONE

Tonino Carotone was born in Pamplona, a small town in Northern Spain, famous for
its bullfights. This perhaps explains the explosive temperament of this eccentric artist.

His real name is Antonio De La Questa and he started playing music in the 80’s, when he participated in three different punk bands: Cagando Duro (The Hard Shit), Tijuana Blue and Kojon Prieto y Los Huajolotes. The last ones quickly became famous all over Spain, as they were playing covers of artists such as Al Bano and Raffaella Carra. Through one of their fantastic live appearances they drew the attention of Manu Chao, former leader of Mano Negra.

A few years later, in 2000, he would be the producer in Carotone’s first solo album: “E Un Mondo Difficile”. The name that he now uses is a paraphrase of the Italian Carosone, in honour of an eminent Italian singer of the 50’s, Renato Carosone (his big hit is “Tu Vuò Fà L’americano”).
His music combines punk with elements from Spanish, Italian, French, even Mexican popular music. It resembles the band Les Négresses Vertes and the solo works of Manu Chao, while a lot of critics are placing his music somewhere between Adriano Celentano and Tom Waits. The lyrics of his songs are often amusing, ironic or even surreal.

http://www.last.fm/music/Tonino+Carotone/+wiki

ME CAGO EN EL AMOR VIDEO

ME CAGO EN EL AMOR LYRICS

E' un mondo difficile
e vita intensa
felicita' a momenti
e futuro incerto
il fuoco e l'acqua
con certa calma
serata di vento
e nostra piccola vita
e nostro grande cuore

Porque voy a creer yo en el amor
si non me entiende no me comprenden tal como yo soy
Porque voy a creer yo en el amor
si me traiciona y me abandona cuando major estoy
No sabemos muy bien entre tu y yo
y aunque parezca no tienes la culpa la culpa es del amor

E' un mondo difficile
e vita intensa
felicita' a momenti
e futuro incerto

No puedo convencer a mi corazon
si yo no dudo y estoy seguro que el tiene razon
No voy a asesinar esa sensacion
si yo la quiero yo la deseo aunque me de' dolor
Yo no quiero sufrir pero aqui' estoy
y estoy sufriendo y no me arrepiento me cago en el amor

E' un mondo difficile
e vita intensa
felicita' a momenti
e futuro incerto
il fuoco e l'acqua
con certa calma
serata di vento
e nostra piccola vita
e nostro grande cuore

Porque voy a creer yo en el amor
si non me entiende no me comprenden tal como soy yo
Porque voy a creer yo en el amor
si me traiciona y me abandona cuando major estoy
No sabemos muy bien entre tu y yo
y aunque parezca no tienes la culpa la culpa es del amor
Yo no quiero sufrir pero aqui' estoy
y estoy sufriendo y no me arrepiento (me cago en el amor) me cago en el amor

Me cago en el amor
Me cago en el amor

Vita mia

E' un mondo difficile

DAMIAN MARLEY

Birth name Damian Marley
Also known as Junior Gong
Born July 21, 1978
Kingston, Jamaica
Genre(s) Reggae
Ragga
Dancehall
Years active 1996 - Present
Label(s) Tuff Gong, Universal Records
Associated acts Bob Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, Ziggy Marley, Stephen Marley, Julian Marley, K'Naan

Damian Marley (born July 21, 1978 in Kingston, Jamaica), is a three time Grammy-winning reggae artist and is the youngest son of reggae legend Bob Marley.

Damian was two years old when his father died, and is the only child born to Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976. Damian's nickname is Junior Gong which is derived from his father's nickname of Tuff Gong. Damian has been performing since the age of 13. He shares with most of the Marley family a full-time career in music. Unlike his brothers and sisters, however, his musical specialty is "toasting", a Jamaican style of rapping.
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As of 2006, he has released three albums. His first, Mr. Marley, was released in 1996, his second, Halfway Tree in 2001, and his third, Welcome To Jamrock in September 2005. Halfway Tree was the 2002 recipient of the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album. At the 2006 Grammy Awards, he won Best Reggae Album again for Welcome to Jamrock and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for the song "Welcome to Jamrock".

In 2004, Damian participated in the 27-city Bob Marley Roots, Rock, Reggae Festival Tour with his four brothers, Ziggy, Julian, Stephen, and Ky-Mani, each of whom have their own professional recording careers.

Damian frequently tours with his brothers Julian and Stephen, who are both members of the Ghetto Youths Crew. In 2004, Damian recorded a song with hip hop group Cypress Hill called 'Ganja Bus' on their album Till Death Do Us Part. Damian Also appears on the song "Get a Light" by Snoop Dogg. This song is on the album "The Blue Carpet Treatment." He is also featured on the track "put your lighters up" by Lil' Kim and on a recent Gwen Stefani remix "Now That You Got It" (produced by Swizz Beatz).

During mid-2006, Damian went on tour with musical artist Ben Harper all around the US. He played in many known stages, such as Central Park New York. He was also one of the many artists who played at the inaugural Osheaga Festival, in Montreal.

In May 2006, Marley performed at KROQ Weenie Roast. In June 2006, Marley performed at Bonnaroo Music Festival. In July 2006, Damian should have played at the Danish music festival Roskilde Festival, however he had to cancel due to troubles with customs.[1]

On January 7, 2006 Marley conducted the main performance at Peace Fest in Trinidad.

On September 19, 2006 Marley became the first reggae artist to perform for the popular PBS show Austin City Limits.

Damian also participated in Season 3 of Extreme Makeover Home Edition by performing a special concert for the Rainford family, in which the father Dunstin was a Jamaican native.

Over the last year he has played numerous University homecomings including Emory and Indiana, often accompanied by his brother Stephen. Stephen was also present when Damian played music festivals such as Miami's Bang, Earth Day in San Francisco and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2007 in Indio, CA.

Marley recently did a song with pop sensation Gwen Stefani. The two made a remix version to the song "Now That You Got It" off of the album The Sweet Escape. Stefani now performs this song on her Sweet Escape Tour.

He also collaborated with Snoop Dogg in his album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment in the song "Get A Light".

Furthermore a collaboration with Guru has been released on Jazzmatazz 4, "Stand Up Some Things'll Never Change" in 2007

He also collaborated with Mariah Carey on her new album E=MC² (April 15, 2008) on a song called "Cruise Control."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Marley

Damian Marley - Welcome To Jamrock VIDEO

Artist: Damien Marley
Song: Welcome to Jamrock
Album: Welcome To Jamrock (2005)

Lyrics (from album jacket) ::


OUT IN THE STREET... THEY CALL IT MERTHER!

VERSE ONE ::

Welcome to Jamrock
Camp whe' te thugs dem camp at
Two pound a weed inna van back
It inna yuh handbag yuh nap sack
It inna yuh back pack
The smell a give ya girlfriend contact
Some bwoy nuh know dis
Dem only come around like tourist
On the beach with a few club soda
Bedtime stories
And pose like dem name Chuck Norris
And don't know the real hardcore
Cause Sandals a no "Back-to"
Di thugs dem wi' do whe' dem got to
And won't think twice to shot you
Don't mek dem spot you
Unless you carry guns alot too
A bear tuff thing come at you
When Trenchtown man stop laugh and block off traffic
Den dem wheel and pop-off and dem start clap it
With the pin file dow and it a beat rapid
Police come inna jeep an' dem can't stop it
Some say dem a playboy, a playboy rabbit
Get drop like a bad habit
So no bother pose tuff if you don't have it
Rastafari stands alone!

CHORUS ::

Welcome to Jamrock, hey!
Welcome to Jamrock
Out in the streets they call it merhther
Uh!

VERSE TWO ::

Welcome to Jamdown
Poor people a dead at random
Political violence can't done
Bare ghosts and Phantom
The youth dem get blind by stardom
Now the king of kings a call
Old man to pickney
So wave unno hand if you with me
To see the sufferation sick me
Dem suit nah fit me
To win election dem trick we
Den dem don't do nothing at all
Come on let's face it
A ghetto education's basic
And most of the youths dem waste it
And when dem waste it, that's when dem tek the guns replace it
Then dem don't stand a chance at all!
And that's why a nuff little youth have some fat matic
With the exra magazine inna dem back pocket
ANd a bleach a night time inna some black jacket
All who nah lock Gloc, say dem a lock rocket
Dem wi' full you up a current like a shock socket
Dem wi' run a road block which part the cops block it
And from now till a morning nuh stop block it
If dem run outta rounds a bruk-back ratchet

CHORUS ::

Welcome to Jamrock (South side, North side)
Welcome to Jamrock (East coast, West coast)
YOW!
Welcome to Jamrock (Cornwal, Middlesex and Surrey yaw)
EH!
Welcome to Jamrock

OUTRO ::

OUT IN THE STREET THEY CALL IT MERTHER
JAMAICA... JAMAICA (x4)
Welcome to Jamrock (x5)

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Welcome-to-Jamrock-lyrics-Damian-Junior-Gong-Marley/

IT'S A PITY Song Lyrics

I said if we never get a chance to be together
go with Jah, Tanya loves ya, wha me seh?

Hook
It's a pity you already have a wife
and me done have a man inna mi life
rudeboy it's such a pity
I say it is such a pity you already have yuh wife
And me have a one man inna mi life
rudeboy it is a pity, mm mm mm

I woulda like one of these mornings to wake up and find
your face on a pillow lying right next to mine
I woulda cut out the partying the smoking and the rum
and buss a extra wine and make we seal up a son
well everytime mi fantasize me see your lips me see your eyes
Your trigger finger do something a lef the rudegirl hypnotized
For you it's just a thing, just another little fling
But for me this is Heaven and the angel them a sing


Fi buck you up inna public and cant even touch
It really fuck me up because me check fi you so much
The respect weh mi have fi your woman fi your kids
believe me rudeboy mi criss, a nuh matey this
who knows? maybe one day the world will be evolved enough
we'll share you in a civilized manner between the two of us
But until then I woulda love see you again,
Me know we have fi play it by the stupid rules of sin


So meet me round the corner, avoid Mitzy and Lorna
You know them a two of the biggest informer
I'm not starving for sex no, nah bawl out vex no
but the way how yuh flex really got my interest yo
ayou weh people see a no the you fa me loving
And the you weh deh with me go much deeper than skin
I dont know exactly what it is you're feeling
But I wish this was a permanentthing yo...



Me know seh you belong to she, you know seh me belong to him
Me wouldn't want you dis your queen, me woulda never dis mi king
But when yuh play pon mi riddim and when me feel your base a swing
You lef me inna turmoil, you have me head a spin
It really mek me sad fi haffi waste so much water,
I think the two o' we can mek a beautiful daughter
but it would be selfish to an innocent little youth
Fi bring her come and cannot tell her the truth
We have fi tell her the truth

CONTROL MACHETE

Control Machete is a Mexican hip hop group from Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. Its members are Fermin IV (listed as Fermin IV Caballero Elizondo in credits), Patricio "Pato" Chapa Elizalde, and Toy Kenobi (Toy Hernández). However, Fermin IV left the band in 2002 and released a solo album, Boomerang. He also collaborated with Cypress Hill on the track "Siempre Peligroso" on their album Los grandes éxitos en español.

The group moved to the mainstream after their song "Sí Señor" was used as backing in the Levi's Super Bowl television commercial "Crazy Legs". However, their debut album was already a bestseller, with 100,000 units sold in Mexico and 400,000 in Latin America. Their track "Danzón" was recorded in Cuba with Buena Vista Social Club's Rubén González. "Si señor" was featured in the Alejandro González Iñárritu film Amores perros, and Control Machete's music was heard in the 2005 film Land of the Dead, as well as the new film "Crank" starring Jason Statham.

Control Machete's lyrics pack a powerful message into their music. Piercing commentary on politics, society, economy, and race relations are woven together with melody and rhythm.

Control Machete's music has at times been criticized as defamatory and vulgar, for their use of Spanish profanity and their confrontation of sensitive political and social issues. However, their explosive and pointed songs aim to incite the Mexican people to redouble their national pride and rise up against poverty, ignorance, and oppression[citation needed].

Control Machete was also featured very prominently on the 2005 game Total Overdose and again on the 2007 Xbox 360 game Crackdown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Machete

Control Machete Asi Son Mis Dias Lyrics

como el humo voy
como el humo vengo
salgo de la noche
marco el pavimento
y es que sin razon
viajo en el tiempo
pienso y planeo
lo que vengo haciendo
marca en el dia
busco la salida
toma lo que quieras
mas no la que es mia
todo es parte
la rosa familia
aunque no comprendas
asi son mis dias
(coro)
asi son mis dias (buenos son)
y es que asi son mis dias (buenos son)
si ve a usted un pelado
parado en la esquina
no lo moleste
Me la paso armando
toda mi vida
cortando y pegando
si no a la deriba
terror con la raza
paseame Carranza
da vueltas la cuadra hey...
que es lo que pasa
Sabor..
siempre ando con son
en todo el dia
no hay ni un bajon
siempre al tiro,arribo
al tiempo admiro
todo el panorama
que hay en un giro
porque asi son mis dias
complejo maria
agarro el vuelo
como si fuera mia
la mira esta puesta
sobre la mesa
la tarde se presta
pa' andar con la mera artillera
y responde
con una mentira
pa' salir del momento
y encontrar la salida
completo termino
con cierta pasiencia
asi son mis dias
cuando piso las riendas
(coro)
como todo voy
mucho es lo que tengo
con mis carnales
todos son mis maestros
y es que nunca soy
lo que prefirieron
soy lo que soy
no lo eligieron
pasa la vida
la sigo sin prisa
simplemente observo
lo que requeria
pasa mi vida
y no es tan bacia
siento..
que mas nesecitaria
pues tan bueno
hoy como es
pues lo preciento
fiesta con homs
barrios y lamentos
esto no es bajon
es hasta el firmamento
golpes y golpes
y nunca rebiento
sombra de dia
duro hasta arriba
ando tranquilo
no hay melancolia
mientras haiga cuerdas
saco la espina
sigo con la banda
que ha estado en la esquina