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█ Damian Marley-Welcome to Jamr
▒ ARTiST..[ Damian Marley
░ TiTLE...[ Welcome to Jamrock
▒ GENRE...[ Reggae
▓ LABEL...[ ghetto youth
░ QUALiTY.[ VBRKpbs 44,1Hz Joint-Stereo
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▒ STR.DATE[ 00/00/2005
▓ REL.DATE[ 08/30/2005 TRACKS.[14 ]
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01 Confrontation 05:29
02 There for You 04:42
03 Welcome to Jamrock 03:35
04 The Master Has Come Back 04:39
05 All Night 03:30
06 Beautiful 04:47
07 Pimpass Paradise 05:05
08 Move 03:44
09 For the Babies 04:54
10 Hey Girl 04:16
11 Road to Zion 05:17
12 We're Gonna Make it 04:20
13 In 2 Deep 04:45
14 Khaki Suit 04:00
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▓ The bustling Halfway Tree area of Kingston, Jamaica is ▓
▓ the geographic intersection of the city's uptown and ▓
▓ downtown areas, the meeting ground of Kingston's ▓
▓ privileged and it's poor. Damian Marley, the son of ▓
▓ Reggae icon Bob Marley and Jamaica's 1977 Miss World ▓
▓ Cindy Breakspeare is the offspring of a union between two ▓
▓ distinctive and disparate worlds. Damian calls his new ▓
▓ album "HALFWAY TREE" because "my father is from the ▓
▓ country and the ghetto and my mother is from uptown so I ▓
▓ come like a half way tree, like a bridge because I can ▓
▓ relate to both sides. "HALFWAY TREE" is the first release ▓
▓ from the recently signed distribution deal between Motown ▓
▓ Records and Ghetto Youths International. ▓
▓ ▓
▓ Born in Kingston, Jamaica on July 21, 1978, Damian Robert ▓
▓ Nesta Marley a.k.a. "Junior Gong", Bob's youngest son, ▓
▓ began performing as a child as the vocalist for a group ▓
▓ called The Shepherds. Comprised of other well-known ▓
▓ Reggae artists children including Shiah Coore (son of ▓
▓ Third World guitarist Cat Coore) and Yashema Beth ▓
▓ McGregor, the daughter of Freddie McGregor and Judy ▓
▓ Mowatt, The Shepherds performed at several shows in ▓
▓ Jamaica including the Reggae Sunsplash music festival in ▓
▓ 1992. ▓
▓ ▓
▓ After The Shepherds' demise, Damian turned his vocal ▓
▓ talents to deejaying (the Jamaican equivalent of ▓
▓ rapping). In 1993 Damian's debut single "Deejay Degree" ▓
▓ was released on Tuff Gong Records (the label founded by ▓
▓ Bob Marley) and the following year he released "Sexy ▓
▓ Girls On My Mind" for the Main Street label. ▓
▓ ▓
▓ Damian's next release 1995's "School Controversy" was ▓
▓ featured on the Epic\Sony Wonder compilation, "POSITIVELY ▓
▓ REGGAE" with all sales proceeds going to Jamaica's Leaf ▓
▓ of Life Foundation, an organization which assists ▓
▓ children who are HIV positive. Although he was still a ▓
▓ teenager, Damian was selected as the "POSITIVELY REGGAE" ▓
▓ spokesperson, a role that introduced him to the ▓
▓ international press and record buying public. The same ▓
▓ year Damian performed at select dates on the Shabba Ranks ▓
▓ World Unity tour and with his brother Julian performed at ▓
▓ Jamaica's Reggae Sunfest and Sunsplash festivals. ▓
▓ ▓
▓ Damian was a high school student when he began recording ▓
▓ "MR. MARLEY" at the Marley Music 48 track-recording ▓
▓ studio. Produced by Stephen Marley (head of the Marley ▓
▓ Boyz production team), "MR. MARLEY" delivered a fusion of ▓
▓ contemporary Reggae grooves and infectious dancehall ▓
▓ rhythms alongside tough edged hip-hop beats, an ideal ▓
▓ complement for Damian's versatile deejay-rap style. The ▓
▓ album included several updates of Bob Marley classics as ▓
▓ well as the single "Me Name Junior Gong" which went to ▓
▓ the number one in Hawaii and held that position for ▓
▓ several weeks. "When we went to Hawaii in 1997," Damian ▓
▓ recalls, "we had three songs on the charts there: ∩Me ▓
▓ Name Junior Gong,' ∩One Cup of Coffee' and ∩Now You ▓
▓ Know,' a tune from Julian's debut album." Damian and ▓
▓ Julian's burgeoning popularity earned them featured ▓
▓ appearances on the 1997 travelling alternative rock ▓
▓ festival Lollapalooza which provided invaluable exposure ▓
▓ among a new sector of music fans. ▓
▓ ▓
▓ In the five years since "MR. MARLEY's" release, Damian ▓
▓ has matured as a performer, songwriter, recording artist ▓
▓ and Rastafarian, his unwavering convictions reflected ▓
▓ throughout his new album. Stephen Marley produced ▓
▓ "HALFWAY TREE" for Marley Boyz productions; Stephen's ▓
▓ previous production achievements are crowned by 1999's ▓
▓ critically acclaimed "CHANT DOWN BABYLON" featuring Bob ▓
▓ Marley in duets with a galaxy of hip hop's brightest ▓
▓ stars and selling more than 1 million copies worldwide. ▓
▓ Stephen's innovative approach to "HALFWAY TREE" ▓
▓ incorporates spoken word introductions and dramatic ▓
▓ vignettes as song interludes, creating a conceptual ▓
▓ cohesiveness lacking from most Jamaican albums. Stephen ▓
▓ also adapts traditional Reggae elements (forceful drum ▓
▓ and basslines, committed social commentary) to 21st ▓
▓ century hip hop's synthesized beats and sometimes defiant ▓
▓ stances while utilizing the talents of Jamaican singers, ▓
▓ deejays and musicians alongside American rappers, each ▓
▓ underscoring Damian's impassioned delivery. ▓
▓ ▓
▓ A spoken intro by Bunny Wailer (of the original Wailers), ▓
▓ the ghetto grammar of Jamaican deejay Bounty Killer, ▓
▓ Treach of rap group Naughty By Nature and Damain's ▓
▓ blistering vocal beats unite in their criticism of the ▓
▓ "Educated Fools" who continue to brainwash the youth. ▓
▓ Stephen's sung vocals are looped around Damian's ▓
▓ deejaying on the haunting "It Was Written", complemented ▓
▓ by the combustible talents of Dancehall's arsonist ▓
▓ Capleton who along with rapper Dragon assists in burning ▓
▓ (lyrical) fire upon the oppressors. The pulse of ▓
▓ classical Reggae's drum and bass enhances Damian's ▓
▓ sing-jay style throughout "More Justice", a condemnation ▓
▓ of the suppression of the Rastafarian sacred herb ▓
▓ marijuana. Contemporary percussion patterns inspired by ▓
▓ ancestral African drumming provides the sturdy musical ▓
▓ foundation for "Give Dem Some Way" which fully supports ▓
▓ Damian's hard edged, fast past verse. ▓
▓ ▓
▓ A hardcore Jamaican dancehall vibe is represented in "Mi ▓
▓ Blenda", a recipe for natural viagra (or Jamaican "strong ▓
▓ back") which might be necessary to satisfy the two women ▓
▓ Damian is "Stuck In Between". "Where Is The Love?" ▓
▓ conveys a responsible approach to relationships with Ruff ▓
▓ Ryders Eve providing a succinct rap aimed at those who ▓
▓ engage in irresponsible sex: "I wish you cats would ▓
▓ understand procreation instead of using it as ▓
▓ recreation." Damian abandons those "just for one night ▓
▓ fun things" as "an indecent something" on "Still ▓
▓ Searching" while the rollicking "Cool and Dandy" with ▓
▓ deejay Daddigan is a tribute to the fit and bouncy girls. ▓
▓ "She Needs My Love" boasts Jamaica's premier drum and ▓
▓ bass duo Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare and their La ▓
▓ Trenggae (Latin Flavored Reggae) fusion accentuating ▓
▓ Junior Gong's vigorous rhymes. "Stand A Chance" with ▓
▓ Stephen on harmonica, Treach's rap and the harmonizing of ▓
▓ Jamaican singer Yami Bolo is a modern roots Reggae gem ▓
▓ shimmering with an inherited Rastafarian spirit. Stephen ▓
▓ is assisted on the title track production by New York ▓
▓ producer Swizz Beats (Kaseem Dean) who has constructed ▓
▓ rhythms for rappers including DMX, Busta Rhymes and ▓
▓ Jay-Z.s ▓
▓ ▓
▓ Bob Marley's music is also featured on "HALFWAY TREE." ▓
▓ "Could You Be Loved" is metamorphosed into "And Be Loved" ▓
▓ with samples from the 1979 original woven into Damian's ▓
▓ dazzling deejaying and the impressive rap from an ▓
▓ upcoming artist called Izzy. The Wailers 1973 masterpiece ▓
▓ of suppressed anger "Slave Driver" becomes "Catch A Fire" ▓
▓ with Stephen duplicating Bob's original vocals and ▓
▓ Damian's chanting providing a bold critique on guns, ▓
▓ drugs and other forms of mental slavery. Bob reiterated ▓
▓ "none but ourselves can free our mind" and Damian raps ▓
▓ "if dem could, dem would tax you for saliva, how much ▓
▓ more mus' we die for?" ▓
▓ ▓
▓ With the release of "HALFWAY TREE" on Ghetto Youths ▓
▓ International/Motown, Damian presents his bold musical ▓
▓ identity to the global community, updating the Marley ▓
▓ musical legacy for the 21st century. ▓
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