LadyEmma 10
“What you seek is seeking you.” – Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
#0867 I Found Me a Love – Glen Washington
Reggae
all things reggae, (roots, lovers, steppers), made after Ska and Rocksteady 1969.
#0859 Innercity Lady – Gregory Isaacs
LadyEmma 2
“I don’t know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me.” – Henry Miller
#0839 Cocoa Tea – No Love
Critique of 2020 #5
Supreme piece of roots from the mighty ‘Cocoa Tea’. SERIOUS critique on the crony capitalist ‘shitstym’
“Stop it, white collar executive, stop run racket,
’cause if you check them pocket,
Things you wouldn’t believe, them bwoyyyy them got it..
There ain’t no love inna the city, they treating the people without pity,
No love in the country, all about we are dying for mercy…”
foooookin, CRAPitalist blooodclaaaaaaaat fools with their destructive ‘explosion’ ideology.
#0836 Peter Touch-Here comes the judge.
BIG man ‘Touch’ dropping ‘bombs’.
Critique of 2020 #2
A scathing critique of colonialism from master Peter Tosh. His vocal cut of Tommy Mc Cook and the Destroyers ‘Ah So’ released by Joe Gibbs on his ‘Shock’ Label in 1971.
A cut of The legendary Abyssinians ‘Satta’ Rhythm, (originally recorded at the home of Jamaican music Sir Coxsone’s imperious Brentford road powerhouse … Studio 1)
The Abyssinians purchased the master tapes from Coxsone and released ‘Satta’ on their own ‘Clinch’ label in 1971 and the rest is Reggae history.
‘Satta’ was in itself a loose version of Carlton (Manning) & his Shoes ‘Happy Land’, (the Abyssinians consisted of Bernard Collins and ‘Shoe’ two brothers Donald and Lynford).
#0821 Sound Dimension – Tunnel One
Shades #2
“After silence that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music” – Aldous Huxley
#themusicologist [#0819] Dennis Brown and Gregory Isaacs – Ready we Ready
Pluto Meets Jupiter #5
FIRST cut of 2019. HEAVYWEIGHT late 1990’s dancehall cut from two of the GREAT Reggae artists, Gregory (the MIGHTY Cool Ruler) Isaacs and Dennis (the Crown Prince) Brown. Released on Anthony ‘Barry U’ Barret’s top ranking, (New York based), Super Power label
#themusicologist [#0816] Dennis Brown – Tribulation
Pluto meets Jupiter #2
Sliding out of the Cool Ruler and into one from the Crown Prince..
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo
#themusicologist [#0815] Gregory Isaacs – No one is to blame
Pluto meets Jupiter #1
HEAVYWEIGHT Piece from the ‘Cool Ruler’ as we warm up for the [Mid-November] MAJOR Planetary movements. [Jupiter & Pluto]
If you know you know..if you don’t you don’t.
Suffice to say that the PLUTO is ‘returning to the underworld’ [AFTER 250 YEARS !]
Coinciding with the first time my ancestors trod the streets, alleys, roads, hills and gully’s of our home town LONDON due to the FIRST ‘Industrial Revolution’ c1760
250 Years…..an ‘AGE’
#themusicologist [#811] Baby I Love you so – Jacob Miller
aSongForCon
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
Eternally x
#themusicologist [#808] Maybe someday – the Paragons
aSongForCon
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius
#themusicologist [#807] Girl of my Dreams – Cornell Campbell
aSongForCon
with ETERNAL love from Dad
Girl of my dreams………
ALWAYS x
#themusicologist [#804] Wailers– Bend Down Low
The Upsetter’s [Lee Perry] BURIAL version of the Wailers 1966 Studio 1 classic…
“Fighting to preserve things as they are inevitably becomes a battle to think and speak of things in certain ways, either defensively or preemptively. We face the future empty-handed, language-wise; we are dumb in the face of the future.” George Orwell
Original version [#643]
https://themusicologist.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/musicology-643/
#themusicologist [#800] Lloyd and Devon – Wolf Out Deh
1977 Upsetter selection recorded at the legendary Black Ark. Featuring Lloyd [Robinson] and Devon Russell on the vocals
be careful of the ‘WOLF OUT DEH’….
#themusicologist [798] the Wailers – the World is Changing
One from the Wailers with Father ‘Touch’ singing lead. A favourite of my auntie Deb’s. The Wailers were a MAJOR element of the ‘urbnsoundtrack’ for us growing up on the streets of London throughout the 1970’s beginning with my introduction as a 4 year old in 1973 via the ‘Catch a fire’ [Zippo lighter cover] LP all the way through to ‘Uprising’. MANY hills and gullies travelled along the ‘way’…
#themusicologist [795] Dennis Brown – Here I Come
My Auntie Debbie ‘passed through’ this, mortal phase yesterday. She was more than an ‘aunt’ to me, a BIG part of our lives from birth.
MANY times ‘family’ is just a word used to categorise a/the relationship between people who share the same blood, other times ‘family’ signifies a bond between people who share and are linked by vibrational ‘energy’, these are the bonds that can never be broken no matter what phase we are in.
The [first] law of thermodynamics, (aka the conservation of energy), states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed. Energy can/does change form, and energy can/does flow from one place to another.
My auntie Debbie, like my daughter Constance and ‘Farve’ is still ‘here’, with us in everything, guiding us along the ‘way’..
The next run of cuts are for those who knew and know the feeling of losing and being left behind by loved ones …you all know who you are.
ALL of the cats named above LOVED and were moved by, connected, (in a BIG way), to and were FLUENT native speakers of in the universal language, (music).
Always in our hearts, souls and minds..x
#themusicologist [794] Lord Creator – Such is Life
Fork in the road 7
One of my most cherished early reggae cuts courtesy of the incredible Kentrick ‘Lord Creator’ Patrick who, [at the time of this recording], was rediscovered ‘living’ up a tree in Jamaica..
SUCH is LIFE
[S]HE WHO LIVES it KNOWS it..everyone else is a SPECULATOR/commentator.
#themusicologist [789] Paragons – Blackbird singing
Fork in the road 2
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly”
#themusicologist #0784 Life is not Easy – Anthony Johnson & Mystic Eyes
BIG tune. Them who FEEL it, KNOW it..
#themusicologist #0775 Jackie Mittoo – Wall Street
aSongForConZu #75
[S]he who KNOWS it………..feels it
“He who wishes to learn must believe” – Aristotle
musicology #0748
Nubag #17 (a year in the life)
Junior Delahaye – Working Hard For the Rent Man
Majestic piece from the mighty Lloyd ‘Bullwackie’ Barnes featuring the lilting, sufferers vocals of Junior Delahaye.
Maximum respect due to all the sufferers, rebels, nuwave navigators and knowledge hustlers who feel the vibrations of a changing world. Continue to spread/share the ‘wealth’ as you crawl, walk, run along the way.
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