Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
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Artist: Damian MarleyBrand: Baker Drivetrain
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Model: 00602498851258
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:
- Confrontation
- There For You
- Welcome To Jamrock
- The Master Has Come Back
- All Night
- Beautiful
- Pimpa's Paradise
- Move!
- For The Babies
- Hey Girl
- Road To Zion
- We're Gonna Make It
- In 2 Deep
- Khaki Suit
Music reviews of Welcome to Jamrock
Music Review: The Wait is Over!
Rating: 4 Stars
With the possible exception of a little album due to be released in about 2 weeks, you probably won't find a much more hyped reggae album in 2005 than Welcome to Jamrock. It's been a rather long 4 years since the release of Bob's youngest child, Damian's last album, the excellent Halfway Tree, and 'Jamrock' promises to be even more successful than its Grammy winning predecessor.
The hype comes in the very unlikely form of the title track which draws its power from an old Junior Reid tune and an even older Ini Kamoze track (somewhere right now Ini is singing "Out in the streets they call it murderrrrrrrr" and the crowd is thinking he got it from Jr Gong), the song has become a reggae superhit and has even some of the harshest critic calling it one of reggae's finest moment's since the elder Marley was on the scene nearly a quarter century ago.
Damian's talents lie, first and foremost, in his production. Quiet as kept, his older brother Stephen has become a true reggae production master over the years, the highlight being the work he did on Halfway Tree, and Jamrock isn't a whole lot behind. Damian also has one of the single best flows in reggae and could seemingly lock down an entire track for about an hour if he ever saw fit.
While the title track is destined to receive the most attention here, the rock solid best tune is the closer, Khaki Suit featuring dancehall legends Bounty Killer and Eek-a-Mouse. The song is as polished of an old school gem as you'll hear anywhere and the death grip that Jr Gong lays into the riddim (at one point it appears as if though Bounty is almost fighting for his chance) is highly impressive mixed with Mouse's background its totally the best record. Of course check the hard hitting title track; as well as the apocolyptic opener Confrontation which features both Bunny Wailer and actual voicings of Marcus Mosiah and His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I.
You also have to check the fun ska flavored All Night, both of the prerequisite homages to Nesta, the best of which being the awesome Move! (Jr.'s take on Exodus). The second international single Hey Girl, We're Going to Make it which is one of the rare roots moments on the album and of course The Master Has Come Back which is HIGHLY enjoyable.
Overall, the album is not as good as Halfway Tree, I can't go that far, what I can say is that if you've been sitting around having the title track drummed into your head, you won't be disappointed when you pick up the finished product. Welcome to Jamrock is a big big album and hopefully it becomes a landmark style album which leads more and more fans into what is real reggae music.
Description of Welcome to Jamrock
14 TRACKS: 1) Confrontation 2) There For You 3) Welcome To Jamrock 4) The Master Has Come Back 5) All Night (With Stephen Marley) 6) Beatuful (With Bobby Brown) 7) Pimpa's Paradise (With Stephen Marley & Black Thought) 8) Move! 9) For The Babies (With Stephen Marley) 10) Hey Girl (With Stephen Marley & Rovleta Fraser) 11) Road To Zion (With Nas) 12) We're Gonna Make It 13) In 2 Deep 14) Khaki Suit (With Bounty Killer & Eek A Mouse)Grammy winner (for 2001's Halfway Tree) Damian "Junior Gong" Marley, the youngest singing son of the immortal Bob and brother of Ziggy, Julian, Stephen and Ky-mani, has made a major splash in the family business. The confrontational title track of his third album (which entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart at Number 7, the biggest opening week ever for a reggae artist), deals with vacationing "haves" partying on the backs of increasingly desperate "have-nots." It has fomented a storm of protest from corporate entities who claim that Marley has presented his homeland (or more accurately, their interests) in a negative light. Another high point is "Pimpa's Paradise," a heartbreaker about drugs leading to prostitution, backed by a vulnerable-sounding acoustic guitar. Produced by Damian and Stephen Marley, it's an eclectic, sophisticated mix, constructed over treacherous rhythmic undercurrents, illuminated by empathy, courage and soul. A shifting kaleidoscope of classic and cutting-edge Jamaican grooves spars with R&B and hip-hop, references to Marcus Garvey, Eek-A-Mouse, and Exodus, plus guest stints from Buju Banton, Bounty Killer, Bobby Brown, Black Thought and Nas. --Christina Roden
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