Posts tagged: Greensleeves Records

LargeUp Premiere: Busy Signal’s “Reggae Music Again” Video

July 18, 2012

Words by Jesse Serwer—

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Busy Signal’s promising recording career may be on hold for now but, it’s not stopping him and the VP Records/Greensleeves team from promoting Reggae Music Again, an excellent LP that had the misfortune of dropping shortly before the start of his, umm, hiatus this past spring. Exactly one week after the arrival of a Busy-less video for one of our favorite tunes on the album, “Kingston Town” featuring Damian Marley, we’ve got a world premiere clip for the album’s title track—and this time the kid is actually in the picture. Directed by Dameon Gayle, “Reggae Music Again” features footage from Busy’s recent European tour, a cameo from Marcia Griffiths, and a performance set in a vintage reggae dance, throwback dances and all. Watch the video below and, if you’re feeling so inclined, head over to the White House website and sign the petition to exonerate Busy.

Tags:Busy Signal, Dancehall, Greensleeves Records, Marcia Griffiths, Reggae, VP Records

Visual Culture: Art in the Dancehall

June 27, 2012

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Words by Emily Shapiro—

When dancehall music bust in the 1980′s, with it came a new style of art and design. Album covers reflected the music’s raw sensibilities with over-the-top cartoons and imagery, while sound systems spread the word about their parties with bright, unique posters. These works, which were often hand-painted and generally one of a kind, continue to be peppered all around Jamaica. The intimate relationship between dancehall music and art has rarely been highlighted (though we do our part to give it its due) but our homies Shimmy Shimmy and Al Fingers have taken care of that with their exhibit, “Art in the Dancehall,” which opens today, June 27, at the BASS Festival in Birmingham, England.

Tags:Al Fingers, BASS Festival, Birmingham, Cover Art, Dancehall, Dancehall Posters, Ever Red, Greensleeves Records, Jamaian art, Jamaica, Jamaican folk art, Jamal Peete, Josey Wales, Limonious, London, Reggae, Robin Clare, Sassafras, Shimmy Shimmy, Tony McDermott, Toyan, Yellowman

Ding Dong Dubstep: The Bug Remixes “Bad Man Forward”

September 29, 2011

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Words by Jesse Serwer

Greensleeves Records recently launched a series of 12″s featuring dubstep remixes of classic and new dancehall tunes, which it is collecting on a CD, Greensleeves Dubstep: Chapter 1, out Oct. 24. Although the British label is known for specializing in reggae and dancehall from Jamaica, it has long embraced British-born permutations of Jamaican music traditions, too. So it makes sense that the label would allow the practitioners of dubstep, a phenomenon whose connection to Jamaica is probably murky to some (but which has long since eclipsed reggae/dancehall’s popularity in the U.K.), to access its vaults.

Tags:Ding Dong, Dubstep, Flow Dan, Greensleeves Records, The Bug