(¯`·._(¯`·......Wha Gwaan in R.A.W......·´¯)_.·´¯) Friday October 13, 2006 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ *INDEX [1] Monday, October 16 - EASY STAR ALL STARS - Tahoe Biltmore, Crystal Bay, NV [2] 'REGGAE VIBES' #545 [3] CX-1 Space Wire - October 2006 - The BluegrassTafarI Edition [4] HAJI MIKE: VOTE HAJI MIKE, ROCKER T,BLACK SEEDS BBC RADIO 3 WORLD MUSIC AWARDS [5] NEW DOOR RECORDS/UME RELEASING DEBUT DISC FROM RISING REGGAE STAR JOSEPH ISRAEL _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ [1] *=*=*=*=*=*=*= *=*=*=*=*=*=*= *=*=*=*=*=*=*= From Kaati (Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide #) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:24:47 -0700 From: Kaati Subject: Monday, October 16 - EASY STAR ALL STARS - Tahoe Biltmore, Crystal Bay, NV Renegade Productions Publicity: Kaati 775-337-8344 Monday, October 16 EASY STAR ALL STARS Tahoe Biltmore, Crystal Bay, NV $15 Advance Doors 8/showtime 10pm 21 and over EASY STAR ALL-STARS AT TAHOE BILTMORE on MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 The Easy Star All-Stars -- whose new album 'Radiodread' (August 22, Easy Star Records) is a song-for-song reggae interpretation of Radiohead's 'OK Computer' -- will hit the road for an extensive fall U.S. and will be appearing at the Tahoe Biltmore ­north shore Tahoe on Monday, October 16 at 9pm. A 9-piece band, The Easy Star All -Stars will perform songs from 'Radiodread' as well as their own original material and cuts from their popular 'Dub Side Of The Moon,' which has spent over three years on Billboard's Reggae Chart. Translating 'Radiodread' to the stage represents a remarkable feat for the Easy Star All-Stars, who will perform songs from a project two years in the making. The tour comes on the heels of a Village Voice feature; coverage in USA Today and Pitchfork; even props from Radiohead's Thom Yorke himself who talked about Toots & the Maytals rendition of "Let Down" during a recent Radiohead concert. The Village Voice also singled out that track, calling it "the original record's prettiest moment transformed into the ambitious remake's most delightfully jarring reinvention." The Easy Star All-Stars recently debuted the live version of Radiodread in its entirety at the All Good Music Festival in West Virginia. Seems as though the collective made quite an impression. Promoter Robert Tucker says ³The Easy Star All-Star sets at the All Good Festival were quoted by many as being the most enjoyable music heard all weekend. It definitely made for the most enthusiastic and overall largest success for any act performing in the 10 years of our early arrival stage on the Thursday night of the event As individuals, the band¹s vocalists and instrumentalists have toured and recorded with Gil-Scott-Heron, Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals, The Toasters, The Meditations, Bernie Worrell, DJ Logic, MC Solaar, King Django, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, The Scofflaws, Diana King, Dennis Brown, Monty Alexander, Sister Carol, and many others. Each of these musicians gets a chance to shine in the typical Easy Star set, whether it is through soloing, composing, or singing, or simply through playing an essential part in this tight-knit collective. Each line-up may result in slightly different sounds for this unique reggae band, but regardless of who plays, the one thing that never changes is that the Easy Star All-Stars deliver a fun, exciting, and different show every time out. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at Renegadeshows.com, The Tahoe Biltmore Gift Shop, Jobys, New Moon Natural Foods. For more information and credit card orders 530-583-2801. [2] *=*=*=*=*=*=*= *=*=*=*=*=*=*= *=*=*=*=*=*=*= From Lance-O (Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide #) Subject: 'REGGAE VIBES' #545 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:27:23 -0400 From: lanceo@kulchashok.com Greetings Reggae, Soca & Caribbean music fans, Don't forget to make sure your station info is updated at all times & let me know if you're interested in contributing to the 'REGGAE VIBES' top ten. We are starting this week, so send in your top ten by Friday. First to hear this week's edition or to download click here: http://www.kulchashok.com/mp3/reggaevibes545.mp3 'REGGAE VIBES' is produced each week by KULCHA SHOK MUZIK. A production company that specializes in reggae, soca & Caribbean music. KULCHA SHOK produces radio programming, radio spots, music, voiceovers, music videos & shows. Kulcha Shok also does promotions, marketing, bookings, parties, special events, tours, djing, MCing, hosting & consulting. I host a weekly reggae night with live bands & videos. If you want to send along your product, please do. This week it's 'REGGAE VIBES' Top Ten songs: 10.UNFAITHFUL(reggae remix) RIHANNA BLACK CHINEY 9. TRAFFIC JAM DAMIEN MARLEY, STEPHEN MARLEY & BUJU BANTON TUFF GONG 8. COME AROUND COLLIE BUDZ 7. DON'T YOU KNOW ISASHA CARIBBEAN MUSIC GROUP 6 THESE STREETS TANYA STEPHENS VP 5. GOODAS FI DEM TONY MATTERHORN NATURAL BRIDGE 4. ON MY MOND DAVILLE FASHOZY 3. GHETTO STORY BABY CHAM/ALICA KEYS ATLANTIC 2. GIVE IT UP TO ME SEAN PAUL/KEISHA COLE ATLANTIC 1. DUTTY WINE TONY MATTERHORN HYPERACTIVE This weeks top stories: 1. REGGAE & VIDEO GAMES 2. REGGAE & JAPAN 3. REGGAE & TRINIDAD 4. NEW RELEASES 5. TRIVIA 6. 'SELECTOR'S CHOICE': SHAGGY 'REGGAE VIBES' Love & Respect, LANCE-O KULCHA SHOK MUZIK 1218 Drexel Av ste# 203 Miami, Fl 33139 http://www.kulchashok.com 305.534.6110 [3] *=*=*=*=*=*=*= *=*=*=*=*=*=*= *=*=*=*=*=*=*= From CX-1 (Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide #) Subject: CX-1 Space Wire - October 2006 - The BluegrassTafarI Edition Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:28:20 -0400 From: "CX-1: The Blackhole Bluegrass Boys" Hello Friends, BLUEGRASSTAFARI! George Pond and Reuben Brooks are realizing the dream they shared in Jamaica as The Overtakers join CX-1 and the two family bands fuse together for a run of club and festival shows this fall billed as Bluegrasstafari tour '06. The show will feature Ruben, his wife Ruth, daughter Tia, and lifelong friend LeRoy, playing traditional Jamaican music. It will also feature CX-1 playing their version of whirled music, and then the bands play together, a eight piece reggae ensemble that is a music lovers dream come true. Catch them tonight at Gottrocks in Greenville, SC, Tomorrow at the Boone Saloon in Boone and Saturday at the Emerald Lounge in Asheville. They will then travel to Florida for two shows at Magnolia Fest. Next its off to Ohio for the Gory at the Quarry festival with eKoostic Hookah. After that, you will have to catch them at.... CHN2K7 - A Celebration of the Chinese New Year Negril, Jamaica, February 17th, 2007 CX-1 will be there... Larry Keel will be there... The Overtakers will be there... You are invited to be there... Each year a growing community of friends and newcomers that we call "the Gecko Family" gather on the shores of a tropical paradise to celebrate the joy of life and friendship! Musicians, artists, poets, dancers, and partiers alike join together to express themeselves in honor of the Chinese New Year. YOU ARE HEREBY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE! Lots of Information is available at http://cx-1.com or by writing jamaica@cx-1.com. IF YOU WANT TO GO, PLEASE PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS THROUGH HTTP://CX-1.COM! Thanks for listening! George, Billy, Andy and Jay CX-1 http://cx-1.com UPCOMING TOUR DATES Thursday, October 12, 2006 Gottrocks Greenville, SC BluegrassTafarI 2006 - With The Overtakers Friday, October 13, 2006 The Boone Saloon Boone, NC BluegrassTafarI 2006 - With The Overtakers Reggae For Restore A benefit for Habitat For Humanity Saturday, October 14, 2006 The Emerald Lounge Asheville, NC BluegrassTafarI 2006 - With The Overtakers October 19-22, 2006 MagFest Live Oak, FL BluegrassTafarI 2006 With The Overtakers! Saturday, October 28, 2006 Nelson's Ledges Quarry Akron, OH Gory at the Quarry BluegrassTafarI 2006 - With The Overtakers Saturday, November 11, 2006 Uncle Charlie's Crozet, VA Wednesday, November 15, 2006 The Library Chapel Hill, NC Thursday, November 16, 2006 Rubber Soul Winston-Salem, NC Friday, November 17, 2006 Outer Banks Brewing Company Kill Devil Hills, NC Saturday, November 18, 2006 The Soapbox Wilmington, NC Friday, December 01, 2006 Barley's Knoxville, TN Saturday, December 02, 2006 The Struttin' Duck Auburn, AL Friday, December 08, 2006 Gottrocks Greenville, SC Friday, February 09, 2007 The Pour House Raleigh, NC Saturday, February 17, 2007 CHNY2K7 Negril, Jamaica For more information visit CX-1.com! Wednesday, June 13, 2007 Riverbend Festival Chattanooga, TN [4] *=*=*=*=*=*=*= *=*=*=*=*=*=*= *=*=*=*=*=*=*= >From: Haji Mike (Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide #) Subject: HAJI MIKE: VOTE HAJI MIKE, ROCKER T,BLACK SEEDS BBC RADIO 3 WORLD MUSIC AWARDS Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:54:11 -0400 From: HAJI MIKE BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards 2006... the following artists have been nominated...please vote in the following categories for Vote Haji Mike - Europe category Europe Including the UK, the Mediterranean islands, Russia and the Baltic states, as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine. Please don?t vote for the last two winners, Amparanoia or Fanfare Ciocarlia. Vote Haji Mike Cross-Cultural Collaboration Cross-Cultural Collaboration Artists whose work crosses boundaries of style, tradition or geography. Please don?t vote for last two winners, Bebo & Cigala or Nitin Sawhney. Vote Rocker T Americas Americas North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean. Please don?t vote for the last two winners, Lhasa or Ry Cooder. Vote Black Seeds Asia Pacific Asia-Pacific The Asian and Australian continents with the islands of the Pacific and the Eastern Indian Ocean, as well as those former states of the USSR not included in Europe. Please don?t vote for the last two winners, Kaushiki Chakrabarty or Sain Zahoor. Nominations close 20th October more details http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2006/index.shtml band page: http://www.soundclick.com/hajimike [5] *=*=*=*=*=*=*= *=*=*=*=*=*=*= *=*=*=*=*=*=*= From Zion Bound (Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide #745) Subject: NEW DOOR RECORDS/UME RELEASING DEBUT DISC FROM RISING REGGAE STAR JOSEPH ISRAEL Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:25:33 +0000 From: zionboundmedia@comcast.net NEW DOOR RECORDS/UME RELEASING DEBUT DISC FROM RISING REGGAE STAR JOSEPH ISRAEL If ever there was proof of the universal power and appeal of reggae music, it’s Gone Are the Days, the striking debut album from rising reggae star Joseph Israel. Featuring sweet reflections of love, gripping, headline-torn news reports, moving tales of spiritual awakening and affecting calls for unity, Gone Are the Days is the first album from the Tulsa, Oklahoma-born, Arkansas-based singer, whose voice has for the past three years teetered on the edge of broader recognition. Recorded in Kingston, Jamaica, at the fabled Tuff Gong studios (birthplace of iconic albums by Bob Marley and his sons), as well as Shaggy’s Big Yard Studio, among others, Gone Are the Days features the stamp of approval from some of the genre’s heavyweights: The disc features collaborations with leading second-generation roots reggae artist Luciano ("Ruff Times) and Mikey General ("Universal Love"), as well as the smooth voices of Erica Newell and Rochelle Bradshaw (backing vocalists for Ziggy Marley and Luciano, respectively). Available for purchase online on September 26, 2006 and in-stores January 30, 2007 by New Door Records/UME, the 15-track disc also finds Israel, who has toured nationally with Luciano and Abijah, backed by a litany of top reggae musicians, including saxophonist Dean Fraser, lead guitarist Earl "Chinna" Smith and bassist Chris Meredith, who co-produced Gone Are the Days with Israel. For Israel, the disc represents the culmination of a lifelong fascination with the culture and music of Jamaica. It represents his strong belief in Jah (Yahweh) as the almighty God, and comes after countless sojourns to the island country to study the faith, music and culture. Conscious and idealistic, the songs composing Gone Are the Days point to a better way to live, to a better world. "This CD, what it’s really all about to me, is bringing things out that haven’t been said," says Israel. "This is not a religious album. I’m just trying to promote the truth, and hopefully other people will want to hear it." Through its simple, sweet reflections of love, its headline-torn news reports, its tales of spiritual awakening and calls for unity, there is a thread running through the songs on Joseph Israel’s debut disc, Gone are the Days. Combined, they quite simply point to a better way to live, to a better world. In the album’s title-track, Israel preaches the need to question authority and what’s been served up to us on the evening news or in the history books of our youth. It’s a song in which he recalls his own awakening, intellectually and spiritually: "So many paths, only one to choose/If you live for yourself, you will lose/In your heart, let true love rule." Laced with Biblical imagery and featuring everything from a tender dedication to his wife ("Perfect Love") to an angry, rage-riddled lambasting of third-world oppression ("Hotta Fiyah"), the disc’s 13 tracks represent the realization of a life-long dream for the Arkansas–based Israel. And they also mark him as a bona fide member of the roots reggae community, despite his skin color or country of origin. Recorded over several months in Kingston, Jamaica—at the fabled Tuff Gong studio (Bob Marley and the Marley family’s studio), Shaggy’s Big Yard studio, and others—Gone are the Days carries the endorsement of a cast of reggae vets. It finds Israel backed by a litany of such players, including saxophonist Dean Fraser, bassist Chris Meredith, lead guitarist Earl "Chinna" Smith, rhythm guitarist Ian "Beezy" Coleman, drummer Wilburn "Squidley" Cole, keyboardist Paul "Scooby" Smith, pianists Franklyn "Bubbler" Waul and Paul "Wrong Move" Crossdale, and percussionist Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson. Israel duets with second-generation roots reggae star Luciano on "Ruff Times" and Luciano’s fellow VP Records artist Mikey General on "Universal Love," while Erica Newell and Rochelle Bradshaw—backing vocalists for Ziggy Marley and Luciano, respectively—add backing vocals throughout. A devoted family man, Israel also features his wife, Kristy, on backing vocals, and their daughters, Rebekah and Chavah (they also have a boy, Cypress), add a sweet touch to the end of "Mankind," urging listeners to "Stop fighting/Love one another/Feed the mommies of little children." "To have been able to make this record, it’s very humbling to me," says Israel. "I just feel so blessed. To have been in a room with all these guys, I felt like there was angels in the room. The vibe was so high that I would just teach them the song and—boom!—in one take they had ‘em." Israel self-financed Gone are the Days, recording and independently releasing the disc in 2005. Just as Israel’s songs caught the attention of everyone from Luciano to Mikey General, the disc in the months after its release caught the attention of Universal Music Enterprises, who is releasing the disc nationwide through their label New Door Records. It’s the next step in a career that has been building since Israel—born Joseph Montgomery Fennel in Tulsa, Oklahoma—was just two years old. It was then, while still a toddler, that he became smitten with Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Babylon by Bus album, especially the track "Positive Vibration," his favorite song as a young child. With his father both a reggae fan and the owner of a Fayetteville, Arkansas, club and restaurant called Jose’s, and his uncle a big roots fan also favoring the likes of Burning Spear, young Joseph was surrounded by reggae. As a teen, he started delving deep into the music himself (the Marley cannon, Spear’s classic Marcus Garvey, Bunny Wailer’s Blackheart Man, Peter Tosh’s Legalize It), and the inspirations behind it, from thinker-activist Garvey to Malcom X. At 14, his parents took him on the first of what would become regular trips to Jamaica. At the same time, he was getting into the likes of younger roots artists like Luciano, as well as genre-blending American artist Ben Harper. As a teen, his interest in the Rastafarian religion—whose followers abstain from eating meat, put little value in material goods and view marijuana as a sacrament—began to grow. A member of the varsity basketball team in high school, he quit sports, and during trips to Jamaica, began studying with Rasta elders such as Ras Bee-Bow of Negril and Bongo Hu-I, the great teacher and herbalist of Montego Bay. As the Rasta culture took root in Joseph, so did long dreadlocks. Israel felt a mystical identity to Jamaica, its people and music. Back home in Arkansas, Israel began writing and performing. In 2000, he formed the band Kepha (translated as "the rock" in Hebrew), which released a single, self-issued disc, and opened for the likes of roots heavy weights Culture and Burning Spear. The group soon folded and Israel founded the Lions of Israel, with whom he started blanketed the American west. In summer 2003, he performed a solo acoustic set before Ziggy Marley on one stop on the latter’s U.S. tour. The gig proved a pivotal one, as Israel clicked with members of Marley’s backing band, including bassist Chris Meredith, who co-produced Gone Are the Days with Israel. In the fall of 2003, Israel toured with popular roots artist Abijah, cutting the Lions of Israel’s live CD on the last night of the tour. At the end of the year, he joined forces with Mikey General, who was being backed by Newell and Bradshaw. By tour’s end, all four made plans to record a track together, what would become the closing track on Gone Are the Days, "Universal Love." Co-written by and featuring Mikey General, Newell and Bradshaw, "Universal Love" was the first song recorded for Gone are the Days. It captures one of the main themes of the record: unity and kindness. Another is the need to live well, to do the right thing, to act righteously. Still another is overcoming adversity. "We’re living in, the most intense time ever, as far as I can see," says Israel. "But I think that one day very soon, the strongholds that are holding the people today that are keeping the people down, are going to be toppled—not by force, but by love and truth." For further information, contact: Print Media: Sujata Murthy, sujata.murthy@umusic.com Radio Interviews: Elliot Kendall, elliot.kendall@umusic.com or www.josephisrael.com Zion Bound Media (Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide #745) *********************************************************************** In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty Forward the Reggae Vibe...Every Time ! Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide Tom Pearson REGGAE AMBASSADOR WORLDWIDE#33 http://www.reggaeambassadors.org ************************************************************************* < REGGAE AMBASSADOR WORLDWIDE Disclaimer > "Any and all statements, views, and opinions expressed in the 'Wha' Gwaan in R.A.W?' newsletter are those of individual members of Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide, Inc. (REGGAE AMBASSADOR WORLDWIDE). REGGAE AMBASSADOR WORLDWIDE is not responsible for the veracity, or for the content, of any REGGAE AMBASSADOR WORLDWIDE member's statement, views, and/or opinions included in this newsletter."