In January this year, staff from at Jamaica's Public Broadcasting Corporation made a shocking discovery.
One of the country's most important music collections, including original recordings by Bob Marley and Pete Tosh, had been ransacked...
...Lee Scratch Perry was one dub reggae producer who had his early hits played on the JBC.
Speaking at his home in Kingston, he says..."I'm glad they did that, you're glad why, what you give you get, who robbed me deserve to get what they've got,"...
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All the crimes committed day by day/ No one try to stop it anyway.
HIS BOOK IS A MUST!!! It not only features Lee Scratch Perry but Augustus Pablo and Junior Delgado.
A book of photographs by Pogus Caesar celebrating Britain's iconic black musicians is to be published next month.
The book features evocative, nostalgic and largely unpublished images of musical legends like Stevie Wonder, Grace Jones and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.
“These images record a unique period in what would come to be called black British life,” remarks author and historian Paul Gilroy.
“Pogus Caesar’s emphatically analog art is rough and full of insight. He conveys the transition between generations, mentalities and economies.”
Legendary reggae artists figures prominently, and appropriately, in the Caesar image canon - Burning Spear, The Wailers, Augustus Pablo, Rita Marley, Mighty Diamonds, Black Uhuru, Sly Dunbar, Steel Pulse etc. The photographer cites reggae itself is a significant influence, reflecting his own St Kitts background in the Eastern Caribbean.
The launch of Muzika Kinda Sweet follows an exhibition of the work at the Oom Gallery in Birmingham earlier this year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/pogus-caesars-muzika-kinda-sweet-2080071.html?action=Gallery&ino=3
Many thanks for the link up to Pogus book. Interesting article - Mighty Diamonds photo is ruff tuff and wicked.
For Your Information
BRITISH MUSIC EXPERIENCE CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH EXHIBITION OF RARE PHOTOGRAPHS
MUZIK KINDA SWEET BY POGUS CAESAR
Date: 1st - 30th October 2011
Venue: British Music Experience at The O2 Bubble, London, UK
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