Freestyle feat. Ras Daniel Ray
Voici quelques photos (par Guillaume fache) et une petite vidéo (par Nicolas Robache) pendant notre jam avec Ras Daniel Ray à l’âge d’or le 10 décembre 2010. J’envoie aussi une pensée à notre amie et attaché de presse Mag’lili pour son aide très précieuse ! Big Up !
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Third World
Reggae Soul Powa !
Petite vidéo Pour ceux qui ne connaitrait pas encore cette légende du reggae : Third World. Un groupe novateur qui a ouvert de nombreuses portes vers un reggae plus moderne. Mélangeant Reggae, soul et RnB (ou bien est ce la même musique ? parfois je me demande …), l’association de leurs timbres de voix est tout simplement magnifique, et leurs décontraction sur scène est déconcertante !
Biographie (source Wikipédia) :
Third World est un groupe de reggae formé en 1973 par Stephen ‘Cat’ Coore à la guitare, et Michael ‘Ibo’ Cooper clavier, qui venaient de quitter Inner Circle.
Le groupe attire vite l’œil du public par des prestations live de très bon niveau (première partie de Bob Marley lors de sa tournée internationale de 1975). En effet, à l’instar de Bob Marley and the Wailers, et contrairement à beaucoup de groupes jamaïcains des années 70, Third World est un groupe complet de musiciens. (Les autres groupes étaient généralement des chanteurs qui se faisaient accompagner par des musiciens de studios « partagés » entre différents groupes).
Third World est aussi connu pour avoir proposé un reggae « savant », virtuose, très travaillé, et très composé, et donc assez éloigné du son « roots » de leur époque. On peut le voir avec des morceaux studios durant plus de 5 minutes, ou des lives avec beaucoup de passages improvisés et des solos. D’ailleurs ses deux membres fondateurs Steven « Cat » Coore guitariste (à la base violoncelliste), et « Ibo » le clavieriste ont eu tous les deux une formation de musiciens classiques, ce qui pourrait expliquer le style de ce groupe.
Leur premier album éponyme sort en 1976 et rencontre un beau succès.
Mais c’est incontestablement avec leur second album « 96 degrees in the shade » (1977) qu’ils rentrent dans l’histoire du reggae avec des titres comme « Jah Glory » ou « 1865 (96 degrees in the shade) ».
AFROCUBISM – Entre Mali et Cuba
Superbe Disque, fruit de la réunion de célèbres musiciens Maliens et Cubains. On y retrouve entre autres Eliades Ochoa, Toumani Diabate et Bassekou Kouyate au ngoni. Plusieurs milliers de kilomètres séparent Bamako de Santiago de Cuba, et pourtant ceux la parlent bel et bien la même langue !
Le reggae victime d’une mort lente ?
Une intéressante analyse de la situation du reggae outremanche vu sur le Blog : Voice On line.
Bonne lecture !
Is reggae dying a slow death? CLOSING: Body Music
The upcoming closure of north London record shop Every Bodies Music suggests that reggae music is suffering a serious decline
ONCE A popular music genre, particularly during the late 1960s and 70s when it found favour amongst the white working class, reggae music has seen a rapid decline in popularity in Britain.
The upcoming closure of record shop Every Bodies Music (formerly known as Body Music) – the famed store in Tottenham, north London, best known for its extensive collection of reggae music – has sparked concern amongst reggae enthusiasts, while the decline in the music’s sales is further indication that the genre which began in Jamaica is suffering.
« Satellite television and Internet communication has had a dramatic effect on the type of music that’s being made in Jamaica, » says veteran reggae DJ David Rodigan. « Producers out there are hearing music from America and thinking that they can create the next Usher or Ne-Yo record. As a result, very little reggae is being made by young producers in Jamaica.
« There’s also no longer any reggae industry the way there was before, in terms of CD manufacturing and 12-inch singles; all that is more or less gone. Dynamic Studios [in Jamaica] was one of the biggest reggae distributors and they closed down. I heard they even melted all the vinyl they had in their storerooms.
“Record sales are really poor and record shops are finding it hard to survive as a result. [Former west London record shop] Dub Vendor is now a café at the front and a small record store at the back.
“We’re now at the point where some artists are releasing their music for free. Tanya Stevens put her last album out on the Internet, and it was available via [German magazine] Riddim as a free supplement.”
Fitzroy Sterling, director of Every Bodies Music confirms that poor sales have contributed to the store’s forthcoming closure.
“We have seen a steady decline in sales over the last five years and it’s at rock bottom at the present moment,” he says. “With new technology, the younger kids can download the music they want and the older folks have got enough music already. As a result, people just aren’t buying music. That’s what’s led to the current situation with the store, though we won’t be closing for now.”
Reggae journalist John Masouri says that the sales figures for recent reggae releases make “grim reading.”
“The last SoundScan figures I saw were for July/August. Damian Marley and Nas [with their collaborative album Distant Relatives] were way out front with around 120,000 sales, while Busy Signal sold just 400 copies of his last CD and Gyptian sold12,000 – and that was with help from a US Billboard hit.”
Emerging British reggae artist Solomon, son of Aswad star Drummie Zeb, feels the genre needs to evolve.
“I think people feel that in order for reggae to be authentic, it needs to sound like it was made at Studio One 20 years ago,” he says. “I think that’s rubbish. Hip hop has changed, r’n’b has changed, and even dancehall has changed, but reggae, to me, is stuck in this old sound. I think that’s part of reggae’s problem – it’s not evolving.”
But while the statistics might not look promising, some feel the music is more popular than ever. Reggae star Damian Marley says: “Traditionally, reggae music isn’t a music that sells a lot of copies in terms of CDs, but live shows have been the source for most reggae artists’ revenue. And now that the music industry in general is going back to that live music element, it’s a great time for reggae because we already have a head start.”
Journalist Chris Salewicz agrees. The acclaimed author of Bob Marley: The Untold Story and last year’s Keep on Running: The Story of Island Records feels that reggae is in a good place.
“What is interesting is that although reggae shops may be closing in the UK and Europe, reggae has never been more popular. A few weeks ago I went to the Rototom reggae festival near Valencia, a phenomenal event that had over 130,000 people attend over the course of eight days. Sometimes I feel that because reggae first broke out in the UK, people here have become tired and blasé about it.
“However, reggae rhythms and dub effects are omnipresent in other artists’ tunes, and in TV and radio ads. I think reggae has become so much of the mainstream in the UK that we hardly notice its existence.”
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Published: 01 October 2010
