jamaicaobserver.com
Following a 20-year hiatus from Japan, reggae’s ‘Singing Canary’ Barrington Levy will be the special guest at Mighty Crown’s stadium show scheduled for September 5 in that reggae-loving country. Reggae more…
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Josh Chamberlain
villagevoice.com
Step one: Move to Kingston or Brooklyn, and try not to get killed
In 2001, longtime hardcore reggae fan Hidetsugo Haji faced a dilemma. He wanted to be a part of the “real thing,” but he lived in Japan, which lacked some basic pieces: a ghetto, for example, and the everyday struggles that come with such blatant economic disparity, not to mention the extraordinary opportunity to look such inequality in the face and overcome it. But thanks to dancehall reggae’s vibrant cassette-tape circuit, buoyed by live dancehall sessions and soundclashes between famous sound systems like Stone Love, Bass Odyssey, and Killamanjaro, he knew where to go. Read more…
Rhoma Tomlinson
news.bbc.co.uk
Akihiko Narisawa came to Jamaica two years ago from Japan with one aim in mind – to find authentic Jamaican music produced by Jamaican artists and send it back to his homeland, where love for Jamaican reggae had skyrocketed to almost cultish proportions. Read more…
