Greensleeves reissue two 1980 Michael Prophet albums

Listen to Righteous Are The Conqueror and Gunman out on Monday 20th October.

After their generously stocked Black Uhuru ‘Black Sounds Of Freedom‘ Deluxe Edition, Greensleeves’ “Classics” reissue arm are back with two more vintage killers. They’re re-releasing the first and second Greensleeves albums by the distinctive voiced Michael Prophet: his powerful debut ‘Righteous Are The Conqueror’ and the smash followup ‘Gunman’.

Produced by Junjo Lawes at Channel One studios using the Roots Radics band, each set is an essential purchase for the reggae enthusiast. For these nicely mastered reissues, Greensleeves have added several bonus 12 inch singles: Cassandra and Help Them Please (to ‘Righteous Are The Conqueror’) and Gunman, Here Comes The Bride, Boom Him Up Now, Trouble Nobody and Just Talking (‘Gunman’). Both cds are out on Monday October 20th in all good record stores. You can listen to the title tracks from each album by clicking the player on this page.

Breaks Magazine Launch Party in Venice Beach

Breaks Magazine, the local Venice Beach, Ca, skateboard, surf, music and culture magazine invites you to the launch of the new website http://mp3vita.net with a maaad party at the Baja Cantina, 311 Washington Blvd, Venice Beach, Ca 90291 featuring local Venice selecta’s DJ Fluffy a.k.a. Block dropping Lovers, Classic Dancehall, Roots, Culture, Hip hop and New Dancehall Jams, BIG tunes all nite. Saturday October 24th 2009 be there. Ladies especially welcome, outdoor patio, smoke, dance, Fish Taco’s and Margaritas all nite. Early Doors 8-30 til 2AM. Invite only. 21 plus a must. Bring girls and good vibez, positivity no badmind. Venice Beach, slow motion style Pacific Ocean style. Check the new issue of Breaks Magazine out now featuring exclusive interviews with Assassin, Junior Reid and Richie Spice available free at all hotspots in the Pacific coastal district of Los Angeles, Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Malibu, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach. Last Issue check exclusive interview with Buju Banton. Next issue dropping Xmas 09 check exclusive interviews with Mr Vegas, Delly Ranks and more. Bless.

Delly Ranx New Album ‘Good Profile’

Itation Records, which recently minted its hit-making status with a 2008 Roots Riddim Of The Year award from United Reggae for its World Go Round riddim is proud to release its first album featuring Delly Ranx on September 15th. Good Profile features production from Buju Banton, John John, Muzik Factor, Chimney Records as well as Itation’s own quality work over 18 dancehall, reggae and dance tracks with Hip Hop and R&B mixed in for good measure. Guest appearances by Johnny Osbourne, Chico, Fiona, JR and instrumental arrangements from Tune In Crew put Good Profile on a different level among dancehall releases. Two singles, “Wish Good”, and “Ice Cream Love” featuring foundation dancehall artist, Johnny Osbourne, are already receiving love everywhere and the latest single, “Rasta Nah Bow”, will burn the flame even higher!Opening with the hit single, “Wish Good”, on Itation’s massive one drop World Go Round Riddim, Delly Ranx sets a cool and conscious tone. Singing to his strengths, a skillful mix of creative lyrics and tight production, Delly continues a rootsy poetic flow on “Past The Worst”. Good Profile sees Jamaica’s top deejay, Buju Banton, contribute a pair of sure fire dance hits from the other side of the vocal booth. Buju, the producer, and Delly, the vocalist, first team up on “Murder”, a singular song carrying a serious message as well as massive bass and pointed percussion creating a trigger reaction of unrestrained body whining. And on “Pleasure Pain” Produced by Delly a bright one drop riddim to play with as Delly sings: just smile when know see me a come/woman you know you caan done. “Caah Get Me Out” is a straight up dancehall joint displaying Delly Ranx’ unsullied street cred. Versatility, however, is crucial and “Working Class” adds a creeping orchestral Hip Hop mix with entertaining results. Foundation dancehall artist, Johnny Osbourne, adds his stamp of approval to “Ice Cream Love”—a unique smash version of Johnny’s original—which has been burning up the charts all over the world on the shoulders of its heavyweight riddim and Awful Music Productions, Lloyd James Jr. nasty production. “Lady Of My Dreams”, “Virgin Wine” (featuring JR), and “Im Going Crazy” (featuring Chico) make sure the ladies are satisfied with just the right lyrics and body moving melodies. Delly takes a spiritual tone on “Rasta Nah Bow”, an Itation production with the indisputable Tune In Crew providing a driving roots riddim that never tires. And the energy doesn’t disappear from track to track as “Do Good” takes a bouncy electro vibe and passes it off to Itation’s Higher Meditation Riddim led by Delly’s compelling “Don’t Burn The Fields”. Nothing can dull his shine on “Don’t Choose”, another Tune In/Itation collaboration whose melodic lines ebb and flow in tandem with Delly’s lyrical stream of consciousness. “Hold Me Close” on the Show Love Riddim brings Fiona into the mix for a passionate “he said, she said” type of moment. R&B is the order of the day on “Things Friend” whose catchy hooks poke holes in the motives of pretend friends. Hip Hop vibes on “World Need Love” and dancefloor beats on “Sensi Ride” complete Good Profile with a little something for everybody. It’s a good look for Delly Ranx and promises to be a great listen for reggae and dance fans everywhere!

http://entiregoods.com/

‘Innocent who never saw bad in anyone’

REBECCA FRENCH was ‘an innocent’ who trusted people and never saw bad in anyone, according to her heartbroken mother Nancy this week.

Speaking at the family home in Antelope Road, Maudlintown on Monday afternoon, Mrs. French (74) said she was trying not to think about the people responsible for her daughter’s death.

‘They will get their justice,’ she said, as she prepared to bury the youngest of her nine childen. Rebecca’s funeral Mass will take place in Bride Street Church today (Wednesday). Rebecca is survived by her children Tia (10) and Kayah (5); her sisters Tina, Eileen, Patricia, Anne and Rachael and her brothers Peter, George and Walter.

‘The hardest thing is realising that Tia and Kayah will never see her again, but children are resilient. There is a big family of us in it and we will look after them,’ said Nancy who has 23 grandchildren and 11 greatgrandchildren. Her husband George, a former Lightship employee and fisherman who built his own boats, died seven years ago.

Rebecca was the youngest member of the family and affectionately indulged throughout her childhood by her sisters and brothers, the eldest of whom was born 22 years before she came along.

They bought her clothes and took her along to the roller-discos in the Parish Hall before any of her peer group were able to go. From the age of eight, she was dressing up to take part in miming competitions in the former Dolphin Bar. When the band Kriss Kross were at the height of their short-lived fame, Rebecca copied them by wearing her jeans back to front for one of the competitions.

‘She was beautiful,’ said Nancy. ‘When she was nine months old, she won the Farley’s baby competition in Dun Mhuire.’

Fun-loving Rebecca loved makeup and hairstyling and did a beauty course at Enniscorthy Vocational College last year. Her aim was to operate her own freelance beauty service and she already had a lot of the equipment she needed.

Her speciality was sewn-in hairextensions which she did for family and friends. The skill was selftaught.

She loved reggae music, especially Bob Marley and according to Nancy, one of the reasons for her decision to move to London at the age of 17, was to meet Ziggy Marley.

The former Faythe School and Wexford Vocational College student initially spent three years in London where she completed a special needs childcare course.

She returned to Wexford to have her elder daughter Tia here. She went back to London after the child was born, but returned home to live when she was two years old. She then resided for a time in Roche’s Terrace and Cromwellsfort before moving to Mount Prospect about two and a half years ago.

Her second daughter Kayah was born five years ago. Both children are now attending Scoil Mhuire in Coolcotts.

Rebecca’s terrible death has deeply affected all the members of the close-knit French family who have been supporting each other since the news was broken to them by gardai last Friday night.

Their ordeal was made worse by the reporting of the case in national newspapers, according to one of her sisters. ‘A lot of things written in the papers was wrong. It was all false. It made her out to be something she wasn’t,’ she said.

‘Rebecca loved life. She loved music and she loved dancing. She would turn up the radio in the kitchen and dance around with the two girls,’ she added.

They have nothing but gratitude for the Gardai and the manner in which they have treated the family.

‘We’ve never had to deal with anything like this before. We can’t believe how kind they have been,’ said Nancy, singling out the Garda Liaison Officer Tony Connolly for special mention. She said the Gardai had kept them up to date with every development in the case over the weekend and provided advice and information on counselling for Rebecca’s children and other family members.

‘They’re living on the doorstep. Tony was here when we told Tia and Kayah that she had died. We told them she had an accident in her car and hurt her head and that she is now with grandda in heaven,’ said Nancy. On Monday evening, after Rebecca’s body had been released for burial, the family took the two girls to Kearney’s funeral home in Selskar, to let them see her coffin.

The children put a photograph of Rebecca on the casket along with a little box of mementoes of their mother.

‘Tia has a little cry every now and then. She is older and understands more but Kayah is only five,’ said Nancy.

Rebecca’s brother George bought a star on the Internet on Sunday night in memory of his sister. It is in the Andromeda constellation and is now named ‘Princess Rebecca’.

‘In future years, the children will be able to look at it and think about her,’ he said.

PS: Reggae Top Ten Tracks

10.Fahrenheit – One For Me

09. Tony Rebel – Dreams

08. Tarrus Riley – Back Biter

07.John Public – Love U 4 Life

06.Sidra – Tell Me

05. D Major – Room 7744

04. Protoje – Arguments

03. Finley Quaye – Ride On

02.Lenn Hammond – Take Me Girl

01. Assassin – Priority

Gay Activists Meet With ’Boom Bye Bye’ Singer Buju Banton

In what was said to be the first sit-down between reggae artist Buju Banton and GLBT equality advocates, the singer of the so-called “gay murder” song “Boom Bye Bye” fielded suggestions about how to reconcile with America’s gay and lesbian community.

Banton’s song, which is still popular in Jamaican dance halls, calls for the killing of gays with Uzis and describes burning their dead bodies.

The reggae artist’s latest American tour has been marked by cancellations and protests, as gays here put pressure on venues and concert promoters. Banton’s label reportedly sent out a statement explaining that Banton was 15 when he wrote the song, and saying that it was not a generalized advocacy of violence toward gays, but rather a response to a specific incident in which a youth was raped by an older man.

But anti-gay violence in Jamaica is commonplace, with gays being attacked–sometimes even killed–in their own homes.

Banton reportedly signed a pact along with other musicians renouncing violent content in songs, but later denied having participated in that pact. Banton also reportedly was part of a group of men that broke into the home of a gay Jamaican man and were arrested. Banton was later acquitted.

An Oct. 17 blog posting at The Petrelis Files reported that four San Francisco-area GLBTs met with Banton during a 40-minute sit-down that Banton’s people said was the first face-to-face conversation the singer had engaged in with gays.

Petrelis reported that the Banton camp expressed a desire to end the acrimony between Banton and protesters who have made his current tour so difficult.

Petrelis noted that he, San Francisco Gay Community Center executive director Rebecca Rolfe, Equality California’s Andrea Shorter, and San Francisco city Supervisor Bevan Dufty were in attendance, as was heterosexual city Supervisor Eric Mar, music company president Tracii McGregor, and Banton himself.

Petrelis described the meeting as “very civil and productive,”: although the suggestions offered to Banton for repairing relations with the GLBT community–such as donating money to GLBT Jamaican group JFLAG, or performing a song about gays with a positive message–were turned down.

Petrelis’ blog posting was prefaced by an “amendment” clarifying that the boycott of Banton’s tour, and efforts to see his show dates canceled, were ongoing.

Indeed, Banton’s tour faces resistance in Dallas, where Banton’s House of Blues concert was scrubbed.

Another night spot, the Palm Beach Club, booked Banton for the same evening he had origianlly been scheduled to play at the House of Blues. The Resource Center Dallas and Equality March Dallas have started a protest aainst the Palm Beach Club date.

However, the fact that the meeting took place at all was seen as important, Petrelis said at his blog.

Biography – Pink

One of the most temperamental and original pop stars of last two years, Pink has rushed into show business, shining a shock defiantly pink hair. But the pseudonym of the girl was born much earlier, than it has appeared for the first time in a sound department. Pink is the nickname which has got still from school years of American Alesii Moore (Alecia Moore) which was born on September, 8th, 1979 in Dojlstaune, the State of Pennsylvania. Though in fan circles other versions of an origin of its short and resolute scenic name go also, to paint hair in is bright-pink colour the future star MTV has really begun in high school. The childhood of Alesii has passed in a small town from which to Philadelphia was no distance. Her father, the veteran of the Vietnamese war (here whence on the second album there was a song “My Vietnam”), played a guitar and often sang favourite songs together with the daughter. Today, looking at this actress held apart by energy, anybody would not believe that in the childhood she suffered an asthma. And, despite it, Alesija always conducted an active way of life: except employment by singing, she played football, was engaged in gymnastics.

Music has turned to it a head during the first teenage period. Already in 13 years it charged extra a rap in local youthful group. And when Alesii was 14, one of friends di-dzheev has offered it every Friday on some minutes to dispose of a microphone at own discretion. Most of all the girl liked to sing songs from repertoire Mary J. Blige. And its bursting forth energy did not remain not noticed. In 15 years company MCA Records has offered it the contract as to the bek-vocalist of vocal trio Basic Instinct which, the truth, has existed absolutely not for long. Having looked round and having tried силенки in this command, Alesija Moore has preferred them other collective, Choice, specialising on R&B. At Choice there was a contract with LaFace Records. In the course of joint show activity it was found out that Pink is able not only to sing and appear on stage, but also to write music and words of songs. L.A. Reid, the head of label LaFace Records, has quickly considered in it powerful talent. Pink has started to work with a label as the solo actress.
Studio work on a debut album passed in the most favorable conditions – to services of the performer there were the best authors, arrangers, producers, among which – Derril Simmons (Darryl Simmons) and beginner of label Babyface. As a source of inspiration for Pink private life experiences, the maiden grieves submitted in enough impudent and expressional packing have served mainly.
The debut album “Can’t Take Me Home”, published in the beginning of 2000, became some kind of a farewell kiss to the former boy friend. The kiss has pleased to youth. The single “There You Go” became the international hit, in the United States it was noted in Billboard Torahs 10. Pink infected with the temperament and a flexible, strong, gutta-percha voice. The album has won for the singer a reliable place in the musical market focused on teenagers of the senior school age. To such already lighted stars as TLC and Kelis, it was necessary to move slightly. Three singles caused to a life by this album, “There You Go”, a R&B-ballad “Let Me Let You Know” and “Most Girls”, unanimously became hits, favourites a tele- and an air. And “Most Girls” in October, 2000 has got to the hot five of singles of the USA.
Working over the second album, Pink has preferred to change role a little. Changes have appeared more than successful, and new release “M! ssundaztood” (2001) has brought to the singer louder success. Stylush much more various and interesting record, than the first album, “M! ssundaztood” covers not only the priest and R&B, but also hip-hop, the disco, a blues-fate and even encroaches on pank fate. Pink it was possible to employ the old idol Linda Perr (Linda Perry), the soloist of group Non Blondes. Linda has written and has produced for Pink some tracks. Has not regretted time for Pink and the producer Dallas Austin (Dallas Austin) in which conducting there were rock focused tracks. And itself Pink has written for the second long-play 11 of 14 compositions. The album has repeated and even has exceeded commercial achievements of the predecessor. Two singles, “Get the Party Started” and “Just Like a Pill”, have risen till 5 lines of a rating of singles Billboard. And the song “Just Like a Pill” has perfectly presented the singer to Great Britain where some weeks were in the lead in country charts.
By the end of 2002 Pink already stayed in the status of the new person of the American pop. Its hot stories about youthful disappointments and losses have appeared more than are claimed and interesting to teenagers. Many songs are perceived as the sounded youthful diaries (in particular, a single “Family Portrait”). Certainly, together with its confessionary lyrics, sense of humour and pathetic execution albums of the actress the traditional pop samples offered sweetsingers by pop stars of type Britney Spears or Mandy Moore represent the phenomenon brighter, than. And its virtuosity and brilliant ability to reincarnate – a question which is not discussed any more.
For today the circulation of two releases pink-hair girls has exceeded 10 million copies only in the USA. In February, 2003 the performer was noted at ceremony of rewarding Grammy – after all for a latest album “M! ssundaztood” to it two nominations have awarded.
Except music, at Alecia Moore there are also other favourite employment, for example, she adores to prepare, and still constantly shows activity on every possible public questions. In particular, Pink repeatedly supported animals and urges all fans to struggle for their rights. Its official site keeps in contact with the Internet representations of defenders of the homeless, members of movement Green Peace, fighters with poverty. Now Pink actively is engaged in processing and preliminary preparation of a new material. About destiny of the third album of the singer precisely still it is not known. There is a hope that by the end of 2003 to it will than please growing army of fans.