Researched and found by Mitch Santell Here is the latest Reggae News that we uncovered around the world today! WIADCA to kick-off 50th lauding Bob Marley as Caribbean Cultural Ambassador. Why Rootfire Cooperative Is Giving Out Microloans To Reggae Musicians Reggae helps heal mental wounds of torture for migrants in Italy
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Commentary and Analysis by Mitch Santell Each and every day I am blown away at the power of Reggae Music. Why do I think that? Answer: The majority of Reggae Bands that you will hear are real musicians and do not use “auto-tune” in order to make their record. There is an “real feeling” and the “majority of people who are exposed to this music….end up on their feet. Here is an introduction to Reggae if you are new to the format: Watch Rebelusion and hear the magic of their Engineer, Producer Errol Brown. (Mr. Brown is the Co-Founder and our Executive Producer at Big Reggae Mix. #Errol Brown #BigReggaeMix #SDSU Commentary and Analysis by Mitch Santell The magic was in the air on Sunset Blvd., on Sunday February 14, 2016! It was the very first Reggae Gathering of all the nominated Reggae Artists together under one roof. The evening was so much fun as there is a tremendous sense of community among Reggae artists. Each and every Valentine's Day we will forever remember that in 2016 was the launch of The Reggae Gathering. It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that we share the official press release from the event. The Inaugural Reggae Gathering - Grammy© Nominee Party is a worldwide gathering and celebration of Reggae; melding timeless, upcoming and nostalgic acts, with rooted, captivating innovators and leading music industry executives, who continue to evolve its steadfast movement, along with enthusiastic fans who support the genre. The gathering was very special for me as a music and radio producer. Why? My answer is that Reggae has a grounded authentic feel that other forms of music simply don't have. More from the press release: Morgan Heritage, the Royal Family of Reggae behind international acclaim has been nominated for the Best Reggae Album category at the 58th Annual GRAMMY© Awards for their 2015 album Strictly Roots. To commemorate, the inaugural Reggae Gathering GRAMMY© nominee celebration, will be held on February 14, 2016, at Los Globos, located at 3040 West Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, California. “Celebrating the history and continued growth of reggae and its steadfast accomplishments through this event, alongside the talent and movers and shakers in the genre, is simply a natural progression in the movement,” says event host Tanya Moore. “It’s called unity in community!” It was a very exciting evening. My partner and Director of Programming at Big Reggae Mix (Scott Brown) also attended the star-studded event and loved the sense of community there. The Global Healing has truly begun. Irie!!!
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Producer, Co-Founder |Big Reggae Mix Each and every day at Big Reggae Mix we continue to discover and uncover amazing artists from around the world. You will find below a track called Cool Breeze that you can play below. Check it out: Ever since Sure Dread joined roots reggae band Jah Roots at the age of 14, he has been developing his talents on reggae-keyboards. With no other mentor but Jah, his talents and the albums he has heard, Sure Dread now has his own style of roots reggae. In Jah Roots, many times he needed to fill the music without the help of a guitarist or another keyboard player. "You can definitly count Jah Roots among my major inpirators," he says. Sure Dread makes his own music with the PC as central point in his set-up, although you can not hear that so good. Where most artists that create reggae music with computers dwell in the realm of dancehall, Sure Dread chooses a totally different way. You can hear Culture, Steel Pulse and Jah Roots in his original music. He works together with Messian Dread Jah Roots and in the Dubroom, their award-winning reggae site where they both publish their original music in midi-format. Where Messian puts a clear emphasis on dub, Sure Dread has a more musical approach of his music and his skillfull roots reggae sounds would serve very nicely as backing tracks for those Jamaican artists such as Culture and the Mighty Diamonds. Written by Mitch Santell Barry Brown had a real passion for Reggae Music. On May 29, 2004 Barry passed away but his music still lives on. For your pleasure we bring you Far East, a Barry Brown classic. Here is what Wikipedia had to say: Barry Brown (c. 1962, Jamaica — 29 May 2004) was a Jamaican reggae singer, initially coming to prominence in the 1970s with his work with Bunny Lee, but remaining popular throughout his career. Commentary and Analysis by Mitch Santell At Big Reggae Mix we really love the Easy Star All-Stars and we play them on a regular basis. We especially love their album Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band. If you are not familiar with Easy Star All-Star's they are simply so much fun. Here is what others have said about them: After their full coverage of classic albums from both Radiohead and Pink Floyd, the collective known as the Easy Star All-Stars go way back to the band and the album that pretty much changed everything. The accent, as always, is on the Easy part of the band's name, meaning this easy-skanking tribute to Sgt. Pepper's flows effortlessly, never getting caught up in overly ambitious detours or ridiculously huge arrangements. Tracks like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" with guest vocalistFrankie Paul and "Within You Without You" with natural mystic Matisyahu have slick studio touches, but the heavy lifting is left up to the performances, and both guest vocalists are perfect choices who simply nail it. Having been on the road frequently the previous two years pays off, as the players are suitably loose, creating grooves that feel natural and alive. The ever growing importance of the horn section comes to fruition as they shrink some of the original album's elaborate arrangements into smaller packages, ones that could be imagined in a live setting or -- in the case of Ranking Roger's "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" -- at some wicked ska-fueled pool party. The warm voice of Michael Rose closes the set on a dubby "A Day in the Life," a cover version drenched in reverb with a clever imitation of the locked groove gibberish found at the end of the original Pepper's LP. |
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