First set begins at 8:00pm with a performance of the kind classic mento tunes your granny used to sing you when you were small. Then, at 10:00, the modern mento experience begins. The new-look Jolly Boys will play tracks from Great Expectation, their upcoming album of unique cover versions of songs made famous by artists including Amy Winehouse, the Clash, the Doors, and others, that fuse old-time style with modern beats and a fresh international vibe.

Among the throng of journalists flying into cover the event will be acclaimed & influential London DJ Chris Sullivan (of the Wag, Momo, Sketch and Supper Club), who will spin reggae, soul and funk in between sets and well into the night for your dancing pleasure.

Geejam nights is the official launch for the Jolly Boys and their new modern mento sound; it will be filmed for international release. Visit the Jolly Boys online at www.jollyboysmusic.com to see their music video of Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab” and to learn more about their summer European tour and album launch this fall.

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This is a song I produced at Geejam Studios for Forward Recordings. The singer is Nordia Witter, check her out at www.myspace.com/nordiawitter

Also we are dedicating this song to to the family and friends of Oneil Edwards. RIP Oneil, you a one of the good yute dem. Also I want to also dedicate the song to my friend Nicole Barton who also died this week also.

Hour Glass (Tribute to Oneil) by Nordia Witter
To download the song, click here

Krista Henry, Gleaner Staff Reporter

Anthony Mandler, the director of American rapper Drake’s Find Your Love video, which was shot in Jamaica in April and features singjay Mavado as the ‘villain’ of the plot, has come out in response to Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett’s comments last week, warning local acts to be careful in how they portray Jamaica.

In defence of his video, Mandler said: “I’m not trying to make a statement about Jamaica. What we created was completely dramatic, completely scripted and not restricted to Jamaica. A lot of what happened in the video could have happened in 50 other countries. We used Jamaica because of the relationship Drake has there (in Jamaica), he’s recorded there and we wanted to use Mavado in the video.”

struggle

He added: “Jamaica, like a number of places, has a two-sided struggle within the country. There is the beautiful side with the beaches and the history and then there is the social struggle like other countries and we’re not trying to make a statement about that. The point is anything can happen which is true of anywhere.”

According to Mandler, he wrote the plot for the video along with Drake, with Mavado and others just acting.

He said: “I wanted to tell an anti-love story. The song is unusual for Drake and the album so we didn’t want to do the typical story. We wanted something that had danger in it and consequences, arrogance, the flip side of forbidden love. The reaction to the video on the international market has been crazy and that’s because of a lot of the visuals, the faces, the streets; all that you don’t see on a regular.”

This isn’t the first time the director has filmed in Jamaica but he described the experience as ‘incredible’, saying he got a lot of support from locals especially in Cassava Piece. On YouTube.com in one week, the video has almost three million views.

As to why subtitles weren’t included in the parts spoken in the local dialect, Mandler commented: “We didn’t want to take away from the beauty of the language, the mystery of what they’re saying, I’d rather have people watch it five times and then get it. The message is different to different people, the subtitles would have changed the meaning.”

The video stars Drake as a foreigner who falls in love with a woman who is romantically linked with a ‘gangster’ called Puffy played by Mavado. Drake is warned in the beginning of the video by an elderly Rastaman about not fooling around with Puffy’s girl. Drake, however, declares his affection for her and as the video progresses there are shots of him attending parties and getting intimate with her.

Drake soon introduces himself to the girl and is spotted by one of Puffy’s minions who then instructs his “dogs from the gully” to kidnap Drake. Drake is then confronted by a group of men and taken to an undisclosed location. Puffy tells Drake that he is out of place for coming to Jamaica and trying to get with his girl, saying “Anyting de a Jamaica belongs to the gully gad”, in reference to Mavado’s title as the ‘Gully God’.

Puffy instructs his woman played by video model Maliah Michel to “done him”. The video ends with the lady pointing the gun at Drake’s head before three shots are heard; Drake is not actually shown being shot.

However, Bartlett in his statement last week said: “We just have to say that care has to be taken by all including our creative artistes in portraying images of our destination and people.”

He also added that the message that is conveyed about Jamaica is wrong: “Gun culture, while not unique to Jamaica, is not enhancing.”

Mandler is one of the top commercial and music video directors having worked with acts such as Rihanna, John Mayer, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, T.I. and others.

The video was premiered internationally, more than a week ago.

According to the artistes, the album album traces Hip-Hop’s roots in Africa, and how it was transported to the American colonies and the Caribbean during slavery, until it was finally exported to the parks and recreational centers in New York city.

Distant Relatives Track List
1. As We Enter
2. Tribal War (feat. K’NAAN)
3. Strong Will Continue
4. Leaders
5. Wisdom (Sabali)
6. Count Your Blessings
7. Disappear
8. The Promised Land (feat. Dennis Brown)
9. Nah Mean
10. Angola (Friends)
11. My Generation (feat. Lil Wayne and Joss Stone)
12. Africa Must Wake Up (Feat. K’NAAN)
13. BONUS TRACK Ancient People (feat. Junior Reid)

Anyone have any BMW for sale? anybody know anyone who is selling a X5, 5 series, or a 3 series.

In Jamaica

Have to be 1999 and younger….

Cheers

Diz

OntheShout.com website

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]]> http://www.dalevirgo.com/blog/2010/01/earthquake-in-cayman-islands/feed/ 0 http://www.dalevirgo.com/blog/2009/12/testimony-stranded-in-junction/ http://www.dalevirgo.com/blog/2009/12/testimony-stranded-in-junction/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:00:20 +0000 Dale http://www.dalevirgo.com/blog/?p=357 God is so great, last night i was on my way to Kingston from Portland, i was very tired, my trip was delayed because i was supposed to come the night before. I went to the doctor earlier in the day. I was driving on the junction and I hit a mysterious deep pot hole, my tyre blew out. Then i checked outside, the tire seemed fine. I drove again, something sounded weird. I came out and examined the tire. It was actually getting soft, so i jacked up the car, took off the tire, and took out the spare. Dang… the spare was busted too. I don’t know how it got busted, its still a mystery to me. A friend drove up and offered assistance to me, i was shocked this person was actually in the area, because when i left portland they had left before me. The guys explained that they had stopped to buy chicken thats why I was ahead of them. I had to carry my spare to the tire shop in Annotto Bay to get a new tire for my space because my rim was dented by the pothole. When i reached the tire shop, i couldn’t find a tire to fit. We finally found one. We fitted it… It looked perfect. But then when i checked the tire in the tank, it had too many holes in it. I had to look for another tire for the rim. Then we went back to the car. When we reach back to the car, we had learnt that 4 other cars hit the same pothole. The was a line of 4 cars all changing tires. (Dang, they need to fix that pothole).

I put on the spare and I was on my way.

Thanks God for those guys. God was surely on my side, because if it wasn’t for them i would be out there stuck with no help.

This dude, I met in florida, good vibes he has. I did 2 albums with him, his name is Ewart Blake also known as Second Chance. We started a studio together in florida and then i came back to Jamaica. The albums is did with him are, Walk Gud, and Heavenly Highway.

check out his myspace at http://www.myspace.com/2ndcsecondchance

Check out the songs below…