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Soca Passion in NYC
New Door Records/UME Releases Debut Disc
From Rising Reggae Star Joseph Israel
Limited Edition Hemp Stylee Tees
News Flash
Bali Festival
Artist Spotlight: Lee perry
In Jah's Name We Pray
Journalists: Thank you for your courage
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Soca Passion in NYC

Saturday October 14th '06
@ Albella Lounge 10 Reade St. (New Location)
bet. Centre St. & Broadway NYC view map

Special Guest DJs:
Jam Central, Back to Basics, Spice, Silence & YankTrini
FREE Admission with RSVP
To RSVP Call 212.501.2135

Doors Open: 10 PM

Info: http://www.SocaPassion.com or 212.501.2135
Ask for the SOCA PASSION Drink Specials
http://myspace.com/SocaPassion or http://socapassion.hi5.com

New Door Records/UME Releases 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 (pictured in lower right of band photo), who co-produced Gone Are the Days with Israel.

For Israel, born Joseph Montgomery Fennel, 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."

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Bali Reggae Festival

The time is now to consider this great chance to travel to one of the world's most intriguing locations and see great reggae music.
On December 16th and 17, 2006,
the BALI REGGAE FESTIVAL, in Bali, Indonesia
will host one of the most original, eclectic, and eccentric line-up of reggae music "Royalty" ever to be assembled in the same place, at the same time since the passing of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.

With international guests:<BR> MAXI PRIEST
JULIAN MARLEY & the UPRISING,
LUCKY DUBE from South Africa,
The TOSH meets MARLEY TOUR starring Bob Marley's JUNIOR MARVIN and Peter Tosh's FULLY FULLWOOD,
Former Black Uhuru vocalist DON CARLOS,
THIRD WORLD, and the SKATALITES from Jamaica,
TRIBO DE JAH from Brazil, KEMURI from Japan, BEEF from Holland, KALIROOTS from Quebec, DOC REGGAE and Dub Deluxe from France and BOMBA from Australia
will make the BALI REGGAE FESTIVAL
one of the most internationally 'sought-after' tickets on the planet.

The time is now to consider this great chance to travel to one of the world's most intriguing locations and see great reggae music. On December 16th and 17, 2006, the BALI REGGAE FESTIVAL, in Bali, Indonesia will host one of the most original, eclectic, and eccentric line-up of reggae music "Royalty" ever to be assembled in the same place, at the same time since the passing of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.

Special travel packages are available to include flights/hotels/festival entrance.

For more information about this unique reggae festival check out:
www.balireggaefest.com

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LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY
Interview By Annette Ovanessian

A quick 15-minute phone call was all I had when interviewing reggae legend, Lee Scratch Perry at his home in Switzerland. Although understanding his lingo was a great challenge for me, I managed to retrieve some of Perry’s crazy thoughts and spiritual visions.

To know reggae is to know Lee Scratch Perry! His name is slapped on thousands of tracks from hundreds of different artists. He produced some of the most recognizable songs with Bob Marley to the most obscure songs with, let’s say, Mad Professor. Among all his collaborative works, Perry has made his own albums to be some of the best reggae and dub albums of all time. Always switching up his focus with every track/album, Perry uses his mental and spiritual connection within himself when creating his "Monkey Funky Punky Reggae Party Music."

I’m not sure that Perry clearly answered my questions…but whatever he said comes from the mouth of a legend—a hero in reggae music!

ANNETTE: Give me an inside look on your new album PANIC IN BABYLON.
LEE PERRY: Some of the tracks are some of the old time tracks that have been made new. I was in the studio and I was feeling the vibes and then I was feeling the music so it became new. It’s called Panic In Babylon. That’s what we’re calling it because it came to me two years back. And when they told me I can make a CD, I saw I had enough tracks to come back, so it’s called Panic In Babylon. So I have a new CD, but it’s not finished yet. As far as history goes, I had many CD’s that came out like, Undercover [Dub?], Jah Lives, Exodus, and Redemption, and even back with Bob Marley. I have so many CD’s, like the most recent was a double CD of my anthology. Sometimes these labels rob the culture and put CD’s out because I don’t know about that until after it’s already out. I often mix a track and they come out, like Legend by Bob Marley. Our agent in Europe put out some tracks and then in Jamaica they come out all the time without my approval, like "Sun Is Shining," and "Kaya" and some of those things I did with Bob Marley.

A: You’ve always tried something different with every album you’ve ever made. And when mixing them, you include all genres of music, like ska, dub, and even jungle…and working with new people. What can you say about your new album that’s different this time around?
LP: Well, this album that’s coming out that’s different from the old Bob Marley tunes. It is presented as a story, like the Ten Commandments. Then after the Ten Commandments, you have the second part of the Ten Commandments. There is a spiritual vibe we’re dealing with. We’re dealing with the things that Bob Marley presented as real. And the third music track is different from the days that I wrote with Bob. It is real excellent!

A: Do you record in a home studio at your home in Switzerland?
LP: No, I don’t do any edits here. I record some voice here, but not usually. That’s why I said I have a lot of tracks I already did. Which is another reason I’m calling this album Panic In Babylon. There is a lot of things I already did from a long time ago that’s never been released, and some other classic things I already did that were released before, but remixed for the now times. I do the voice tracks here, but I don’t have a studio for recording, but I can do voice in here.

A: Throughout your musical career you’ve been quoted as, and have been called a madman, nuts, and crazy. But at the same time, you’ve been called a genius, an influence, and a pioneer. How have these comparisons and contrasts impacted your character and self-esteem?
LP: Well, to be a genius you have to be part of a madman. To be a genius you have to [be a] pure part of a scientist. You have to experiment in things to see what is the future like as if you’re going into a machine and taking charge of the matters in the machine because you never can bring the matter back out of the machine. Because when you come back out of the machine, you are responsible for yourself. So I take the chances of all the times and go almost into the maximum with conflicts and communicate with the machine like I’m giving a world party and I make the music to have a special communion, which my machine made. It’s a special preview of the future. If I don’t believe that it’s clean enough to bring back from my machine, I could not have it make sense, it doesn’t have a good vibe and with good mixing…because you can’t mess with science. They never see that it’s a maximum science me a deal with when I’m recording because people mix my science with the smoking of the ganja going into the recording. So they started to call me crazy because they say I mix the ganja with the science and they start to call me from outer space. I just love experiments. So some of the people think what me do is madness. It could be madness, but it’s like genius too. All me do is raw experiments. But me don’t want these things to sound like the other people’s things so we have to find some way to do different things so we don’t sound like the other man’s things. When you have a special trademark, you have a special type of people who think about it one way, and most other people don’t even know about it. So I have to choose not to do anything that other people do, and I have to do only what is spiritual or what is good. ‘Cause me and my fans like education, happiness, kindness, and success.

A: When you reflect back on your massive career making music, what emotions run through your heart? What is the most important memory for you when you reflect back through your past?
LP: Well, most things is this, I tell you, I’ve believed in words, and in like [the] spelling of the words, and if I don’t see the words, still I can go spell the words that I think is in the right. I understand people, for example. See this is about p-e-o-p-l-e-s; that’s what this is about. How can one criticize that? You have some writers who talk about spell[ing] because you have good spelling and bad spelling. And when you cannot spell good, it could be a bad spell card. If a word sounds one way and you spell it another way, it is considered spelling improperly. So basically you have for people, p-e-o-p-l-e, and the English is totally wrong because of a bad spelling of people; you see, p-e-e-p-l-e for people. I like to criticize a lot of words how they spell different because it could be totally wrong. But how can you say this is a good spelling and bad spelling? How can you call this good? How do you spell love? I only use three letters. L-o-v-e is love; you don’t need "e". Is that lovie? Love is a not the same spelling as ladie!

A: That should be the title of your next track.
LP: L-o-v-e is not love, you understand? That doesn’t make sense. So I like to spell things different. That’s what I do. And also when I’m making music, I couldn’t make Ska music but I didn’t know the country music was the Ska. And I couldn’t make Rock Steady music, because I didn’t go around the type of people that did Rock Steady. So I made continuous sounds to make the songs happy. And when I made the songs, [I] made the Punks happy, then I saw the songs that were happy [was] Punky Reggae and perfect to match their singing. What they do with the songs there I don’t know, ‘cause I made a special tunes for the Punks who liked my type of music. And it became Punky Funky Reggae party music. At the time the only thing missing was the Monkeys. It should have a Monkey Funky Punky Reggae Party.

A: Is there a sensitive side to Lee Perry? If so, what makes you fill up with emotion?
LP: Well I believe in One God. There are many gods and many Jesus’ and many Christ’s. I believe in One God. I believe in One Voice. I believe in the voice of God. I believe in One Aim. And I don’t play any stupid games. And I believe in destiny. What people believe must believe, and what cannot be cannot be; and what is to be has to be, and what is to be must be. I don’t believe in accidents. To me there is no such accident spiritually. It was all meant to be so. There is no accident. If you’re jammed up in a traffic jam and a man hits you, it was meant for the man to hit you. And the people that die, they were meant to die; there was no accident why they died. They died for their sins what they have done is coming from years ago before they come back and then it come back to explain to them. It didn’t happen for the first time, and nobody is here for the first time. We all go and do things, and we are reincarnated and go into a different form. Like a baby is an angel again. Sometimes we have to come again and do a work again here. Why is Babylon panic? And while Babylon tries to explain, they come back again as a baby, as another angel to fulfill and grow.

A: So, then would you say that there isn’t something that you regret in your past?
LP: I would not be so selfish to say I regret anything. The things that happened to me that was not happiness, or was not good for you was to be a lesson learned, and next time when you come back as a reincarnation we learn that’s something that you won’t make that mistake again. Some people you can learn to teach a good lesson because it was a lesson coming. It’s called missed truth. And then because you learn it in this life, it could not be in another life. So if that never happened to you in this life we will learn nothing. So, I don’t regret anything. Everything I do, I give thanks and the result. Because everything I do, I give thanks. If somebody rips me off, I give thanks still they ripped me off, because if I was blessed to be extremely rich, I would turn my back on my fans and the world and so forth…that many more. Like, why should I go forth and sing? Or why should I go forth with my songs? And that would be a terrible sin to turn my back on my fans because of this. Or I have enough money and tell them I don’t need them anymore. Or I don’t need them when they are here. So, continually, not spiritually, we need money. But I can’t stop to feed and support my fans, and have to show them which way to go and teach them good from evil, and enjoy even when people rip me off. Are you understanding me? I was in school. I went to a university…somebody ripped me off and I felt this man was a beast, and this man is a bad man for ripping me off. And learning something that I should know and understand; be careful and know what you are doing, ‘cause you’ll never be this man whether you are his manager. Look for answers. I am not a businessman. Most of my papers disappeared. Most of my music disappeared. Most of my pictures [were] stolen. But then if I had a better business manager, would that have chosen me a different fate? Because then I figured it out that I am an artist. I am a producer, songwriter, and a promoter. I am not a seducer and I am not a businessman. So there is nothing for I to regret. I always learn something. I was not a businessman. I’m just an artist. So nobody didn’t help me or anything. I made myself. Nobody let me down; I let down myself. I am not regretting anything that happened in my past.

A: Lastly, I’m curious to know what you are listening to these days? What was the last record you bought?
LP: I like Welcome To Jamrock by Junior Gong. I love that a lot!

Lee Perry Fall 2006 tour dates:

Sunday	11/05/06	San Francisco, CA The Independent
Monday	11/06/06	San Francisco, CA The Independent
Tues	11/07/06	West Hollywood, CA House of Blues
Wed	11/08/06	San Diego, CA 4th & B
Thurs	11/09/06	Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst
Sat	11/11/06	Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
Sun	11/12/06	Vancouver, BC Richard's on Richards
Mon	11/13/06	Seattle, WA Neumo's
Wed	11/15/06	Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
Thurs	11/16/06	Boulder, CO The Fox Theatre
Fri/Sat	11/18 & 19	The Boss Sounds Reggae Festival with Horace Andy, Linto Kwesi Johnson, Jimmy Cliff, Prince Buster, Dennis Bovell Band, Pama International and Trojan Sound System Northumbria University Students Union Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
Wed	11/22/06	Manchester, UK with Horace Andy, at the Old Brewery

Ziggy Marley born October 17, 1968

Joseph Israel born October 10, 1977

Courtesy of Roots Music Report "where only the music matters". This chart reflects the radio airplay spins of some of the most prominent people in the genre, worldwide. Reporters to the chart include over 100 radio stations who are playing reggae; record stores and distributors selling the reggae; clubs booking blues artists; and key music correspondents throughout the world.

For further information about the Roots Music Report, visit www.rootsmusicreport.com
 

Generated on: Wednesday 11th of October 2006 10:09:55 PM
TW	LW	Artist:	CD Title:	Label:	Weeks On:	Location:
1	1	MONTY ALEXANDER WITH ERNEST RANGLIN	ROCKSTEADY	TELARC	23
2	2	VARIOUS ARTIST	CAPITAL P	VP	21	NY
3	3	ZIGGY MARLEY	DRAGONFLY	RCA	23
4	4	BOB MARLEY & WAILERS	SLOGANS	ISLAND	30	JAMAICA
5	5	BAMBOO B	JAH HEAVENS	BAMBOO B RECORDS	9	ST KITTS
6	6	FAT FREDDY'S DROP	THE DROP	WANDERING EYE	29	AUSTRALIA
7	7	MIDNITE	JAH GRID	I GRADE	29	ST CROIX
8	8	NATURAL BLACK	BE PATIENT	P G MUSIC	29	JAMAICA
9	9	JAH CURE	NEVER DIE LIKE A FOOL	DANGER ZONE	29	JAMAICA
10	10	LUCIANO	JAH WORDS	RAS SANCTUARY	29
11	11	ANTHONY B	SMOKE FREE	BOGALUSA	29	JAMAICA
12	12	SUGAR MINOTT	DANCEHALL BUSINESS	BLACK ROOTS	29	JAMAICA
13	13	BURRO BANTON	RISE AND SHINE	MASSIVE B	29	JAMAICA
14	14	MICHAEL ROSE	BABYLON 9/11	LOVE INJECTION	29	JAMAICA
15	15	MISTY IN ROOTS	FORWARD	KAZ	29	UK
16	16	LACKSLEY CASTELL	PRINCESS LADY	NEGUS ROOTS	29
17	17	BURNING SPEAR	OUR MUSIC	BURNING MUSIC	29	JAMAICA
18	18	DENNIS BROWN	SUPER REGGAE & SOUL HITS	TROJAN	29	JAMAICA
19	19	JOSEY WALES	COWBOY STYLE	SELF	29
20	20	YAMI BOLO	MINISTRY	SELF	29

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Sunday, October 21, 2006
Warsaw Reggae Fest
Warsaw, Poland
www.warsaw-reggae.independent.pl
Hotline: +48 501 718 313

Saturday, November 18, 2006
Boss Sounds Reggae Festival
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
www.jumpinhot.com
Hotline: 0191 2612606

Saturday-Sunday, December 16-17, 2006
Tribal Fusion Faire III
SLO Vets Hall
San Luis Obispo, California, U.S.
www.meddevi.com/tribalfusionfaire
Hotline: 805-544-7662

Saturday-Sunday, December 16-17, 2006
Bali Reggae Festival
Kuta Beach, Bali, Indonesia
www.balireggaefest.com
Hotline: +62 21 7198168
 
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