ZonaReGGae podcast

Blessings!

Last week ZonaReGGae radioshow at RUA FM, just available for podcast re-listen!

-Lots of new releases and tunes dis week, highlights going forward to: new singles from Pama International; revival grooves from Barry & The Penetrators, Dr. Ring Ding or The Drastics! Dubwise in session wid new spins to: H_Frasa, Dubalizer, Badulu Dub, Dubkasm, Abassi AllStars or Dubsync!

-The 1^st session of the month, brings attached four new choices at BEST of 2009 @ ZonaReGGae…the BEST in August playlists present also a number ONE direct entrance, THE choice of the moment!

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ZonaReGGae BEST of 09 – August TOP Choices

-Another of dis week’s highlights goes to our new monthly suggestions - at the radio waves and blog -  Download of the Month!

To open dis new features at the show, we bring a tribute to the King of Pop Music, wid the extraordinary and creative release from Chicago crew The Drastics – MJ a Rocker!

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DOWLOAD OF THE MONTH #1 – The Drastics – ‘MJ A ROCKER’

-First pre-releases for another of soon coming highlights at ZonaReGGae: ‘More Univershall’.

Coming dis September from underground label Springline Records, More Univershall gathers 20 artists under the same cause, to raise funds and awareness towards roots veteran Peter Broogs.

Widespread known as The International Farmer, Peter Broogs suffered a stroke in 2004, which he never recovered from...His daily struggle goes on since then, and More Univershall work, hopes to provide some help wid the expenses, for the necessary treatments to forward Peter recovery.

Dis will be excellent roots dub reggae release, wid several acclaimed names, and lots of exciting underground ones! Dis week we launch the first spins, and pleas, wid the Portuguese featuring RAS BRUNO, from Herban Music, and legendary Culture member, TELFORD NELSON!

More infos@

SPRINGLINE RECORDS

-Weekly feature to new albums presents an absolute debut at ZonareGGae, the 3^rd and latest work from London multicultural collective, The Soothsayers!

Released past April on their own Red Earth Records, ‘One More Reason’ presents the meeting between The Soothsayers and The Red Earth Collective.

Just like the seer storyteller wid futurist visions (A Soothsayer), the Soothsayers reinvent and foresee a fusion of style connected to the roots, for almost a decade now, of passionate live shows.

Coming from South London, Brixton, and based in a intercommunication and culture collision viewpoint, it’s already been a while since these thrilling group of musicians, broke the conventional barriers of the often called Word Music, through their organic fusion of Nu Afro Beat, Urban Jazz, Funk and Dub Reggae.

Rebuilding their vision has been a constant work for the Soothsayers, since the Afro Beat, Jazzy Funk from debut release, Lost City, going to Soul, Hip-Hop and Reggae in Tangled Roots, until the latest One More Reason, where Dub music finds a true meaning alongside their usual strong African elements.

In dis musical venture, particularly a creation of Idris Rahman (sax/vocals) and Robin Hopcraft (trumpet/vocals), accompanied by Phil Dawson (guitar), Kodjovi Kush (bass) and Patrick Illingworth (drums), innumerous guests and companions join in, many of those regular presences over the, already mythic, Red Earth Collective Sessions, in Brixton’s musicians & music lovers gathering spot, Effra.

Serving as a live starting creation point, for the musical display presented in the new album, those sessions also inspired the title One More Reason is presenting: Soothsayers meet the Red Earth Collective.

The group main origins and influences are well present here, with an emphasis over the tunes: Music, Slow Down or the experimental Mama Said, where a sort of spoken words from Bob Skeng, join hands wid Gnawa influences from Djina Jones.

As usual in fusion collectives, Soothsayers quality and musical wisdom are extraordinary, and over an album where the incursion into reggae music is pointed out, the British tradition is obviously there. Still, we can find some master pieces in roots revival approach in the tunes, We Better Learn and River Effra, where the bassline grooves and the abundant and creative horn arrangements (definitely the common ground for Soothsayers musical basis) do not deceive, Soothsayers are also well rooted in the Jamaican tradition!

So, it’s not surprising to check the 3 special guest stars, wid Linval Thompson, afro-dub tune History, Michael Prophet hearthfull Tears of Sorrow, and Johnny Clarke’s double featuring, Bad Boys (anticipated in single release in 2008) and Your Love. Not necessarily being Roots or Dub themes (altough the dub elements are all over the album!), dis tunes are above all, four musical efforts driven and oriented toward dis 3 jamaican music legends, where they give the most and best of their gifted vocals and lyrical consciousness!

Guest vocals go on, wid Mellow Baku amazing voice, a little bit all over the album in backing vocal appearance, and highlighted in Hold On, and over the uplifting combination, Irie, together wid Michie One.

Dub in its pure essence, rounds up One More Reason, wid yet 2 guest stars; We Must Return to Dub, a Mad Professor remix for Tangled Roots album tune We Must Return; and a UK Style version from Nick Manasseh for Michael Prophet’s song, Tears in Dub.

Wid a name fitting in perfection the musical beliefs they send out, the Soothsayers not only bring the best Dub Reggae UK tradition incorporated in African music roots (Adrian Sherwood, Jah Wooble or Massive Attack influences are a must here for sure!), as also raise awareness wid a continuous political and conscious lyrical work.

Mainly, they anticipate in one hand, a future where musical fusion has no boundaries, and on another one, a future where leaders of the World and Mankind itself, urge to find their own limits…

One More Reason, for us is the 3^rd and now, best reason, to definitely not miss dis Soothsayers!

+INFOS @
THE SOOTHSAYERS Myspace

&
THE SOOTHSAYERS net

Playlist available@

ZonaReGGae 02 September '09

Hope ya enjoy it Back next week wid a whole heap of vibes!

Hayah Love!

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