Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari-Interview Bourges 2007

Interview Bourges 2007

Part ONE : Producer and manager Brother Sam has been part of the Mystic adventure since the early Sixties. He and his fellow-travellers describe the prejudice and hostility the band overcame to continue their music based on the three drums, the bass, the fundeh and the repeater. And we also hear from the controversial Capleton, whose homophobic lyrics fuelled a campaign to boycott his music that ended in June 2007.

Part TWO : The Abyssinians were part of a memorable evening of reggae at the Zenith concert hall in Paris in mid-2007. Backstage they reveal their antagonism with Coxone in Jamaica. We also have further exchanges with the livewire Capleton and the pioneers of reggae music, the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari.

SETTING :
The 2007 Printemps de Bourges festival devoted an entire evening to Jamaican music, from the pappies who helped invent the reggae genre, the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, to the fiery dancehall style exported by Capleton. Two generations, two philosophies that who met in this town in central France. They music and philosophy are explored in this two-part radio programme first broadcast by World Tracks, a weekly show produced by Radio France International.

March 19th, 2008

Part one

Part two

Daniel Brown

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