CONFRONTO SOUNDSYSTEM

Cryring Every Night

Artibella (com Ken Boothe)

Rough & Tough

Bangarang (com Lester Sterling)

Apresentando Stranger Cole, há 50 anos fazendo isso

Quem acertar o nome da banda\artista que cantou esse hit nos anos 80 levará um kit de banho do Confronto.

E o Bob Marley explicando a diferença entre Ska, Rocksteady e Reggae:

Are you ready to rocksteady?  :)

E de bonus, só por causa do atraso:

Laurel Aitken – Landlords and Tennants

Versão ska do hit dos Pioneers (no fim eles emendam no tema de Funky Kingston de Toots & the Maytals). Só um esquente para o aniversário do Fisch no sábado.  Ska ska ska!

I’ve got to get away

There’s a man that lives next door
In my neighbourhood,
In my neighbourhood
He gets me down

He gets in so late at nights
Always a fuss and fight
Always a fuss and fight
All through the night

I’ve got to get away from here
This is not a place for me to stay
I’ve got to take my family
And find a quiet place

Hear the pots and pans they fall
Bang! against the wall
Bang! against the wall
No rest at all

I’ve got to get away from here
This is not a place for me to stay
I’ve got to take my family
And find a quiet place

O original:

E já com 138 anos, no Jools Holland, em 2004

Cover classudo da musica dos Seals & Crofts

Sintam o drama do Sr Perry:

What a Good Woodman

Better listen people
I’ve got a story to tell
There are 3 michievious people i don’t trust well

One is the milk man
One is the yam man*
But those of all I don’t trust the woodman at all

When I told my wife
“Stop deal with dem”
Ear carefully
what she told me, my friend:

She said “the milk man and the yah man, I can berid them!
But I will meet the woodman at the gate and take the wood pon  him”

*tema*

I was so mad, In fact this could be sad
I said “I want to know what this is all about”
She said “you don’t understand,
who feels it knows it
It not so easy to forget such a good good woodman”

It is my jealousy
Or my curiosity!
But I make her swear
Never to see them again

Then I saw her cry
I say “what is the matter, dear?”
she said “I’m trying to forget such a good good woodman!”

*como eu mesmo transcrevi o que rola na musica, faço a menor idéia do que pode ser um “Yam man”. Botei aí o que ouvi.  De qualquer forma o que gerou polêmica foi o “man” mesmo :)

Long Long Time

Long long time
Can’t get you off my mind, girl
Long long time
Since i bade you goodnight
Long long time
From i hold you so tight
Long long time
Say wont you come home and be mine

Youuuuuuuuuu find somebody new
Youuuuuuuuuu, you know, you break my heart in two

I said a long long time
Can’t get you off my mind girl
Long long time
We nuh have no nice time girl
Long time now
Me nuh see you face to face girl
Long time now
Me nuh hold you round your waist

Long time now
4x

Youuuuuuuuuu find somebody new
Youuuuuuuuuu, you know, you break my heart in two

I said a long long time
Can’t get you off my mind girl
Long long time
We nuh have no nice time girl
Long time now
Me nuh see you face to face girl
Long time now
Me nuh hold you round your waist girl
Long time now
We nuh have no nice time girl

Pra você cantar junto:

Hopeton Lewis – Sounds and Pressure
(Blue Beat, 1967)

Ooooooeeeeee   Ooooooeeeeee
Ooooooeeeeee   Ooooooeeeeee

Everybody gotta keep on movin’
Gotta keep on comin’ in
2x

To this dancep
To this dance

Gotta put on the pressure
Sounds and pressure
2x

Who can’t take it, now leave it
Who can take it stay under it
When I put on the pressure
You gotta keep on comin’ in

Dig me straight
Dig me straight

*solo*

Ooooooeeeeee   Ooooooeeeeee
Ooooooeeeeee   Ooooooeeeeee

Everybody gotta keep on movin’
Gotta keep on comin’ in
2x

To this dance
To this dance
…

Quarta-feira é dia de rocksteady no site do confronto. Escolhi a quarta porque um alto astral cai muito bem no meio da semana, com tanto chão até a sexta de noite. E alto astral tem de sobra nesse sub-gênero da música jamaicana que  juntou a instrumentação jamaicana com o soul norte-americano. Só love!

Não vou ficar aqui tentando definir o que é o rocksteady, só sei que é mais rápido que o reggae, e mais lento que o ska. Na verdade, quando você aponta o velocímetro para o rocksteady o resultado exibe “de boa”.

Pra inaugurar a “quarta rocksteady” vai um trailer de um filme que parece ser muito massa:

E pra começar a série: Alton Ellis!  Pai do rocksteady, um autêntico gentleman da Jamaica que começou carreira na década de 50 e morreu no palco em Londres em 2008 deixando mais de 20 filhos