#burning-spear — Public Fediverse posts
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Mika Vainio/Various Artists - DubMix 2 (MVDUBCAS-2, Sähkö Recordings/FIN, ltd. ed. C-cassette, 7 May 2026).
https://boomkat.com/products/dubmix-2
#MikaVainio #dub #reggae #dancehall #dubreggae #Jamaica #DJmixes #cassette #mixtape #KingTubby #HermanChinLoy #DennisBrown #BurningSpear #StudioOne #SähköRecordings #SahkoRecordings #Sähkö #Sahko #Turku #Helsinki #Finland
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#MusicBeforeBedtime tonight is #BurningSpear with Call On You (live)
#GifsArtidote: after yesterday's outing i am very tired but despite having fallen asleep briefly i woke up just now processing a lot of things happening, analysing & thinking of tactics to be effective yet guarding my own boundaries whilst taking my limitations into account.
i learned during my lessons with #TheEthicalPsychic that if i want to call on my spirit guide, i should know what to ask, be sincere & have honest intentions, as they don't entertain time wasters who have self-interests & only want their ego stroked.
so i #CallOnYou for guidance in navigating my post-narcissistic abuse #recovery to fulfill my role guiding others navigate the global #narcissistic circus currently featuring the orange clown in his final act of benevolent delusion he subjects us to.
i can see how they're guiding me by the things drawing my attention, the contacts i seek & maintain, the actions i take & the interactions i am having. i sense i am on the right track.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Burning Spear:
🎵 Man in the Hillshttps://chalwa.bandcamp.com/track/man-in-the-hills-burning-spear
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Burning Spear:
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#BurningSpear live at #Zoom Club, #Frankfurt
Experiencing #roots #reggae live with this legend is so great! 🤩🇯🇲
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Burning Spear:
🎵 Institutionhttps://open.spotify.com/track/1WIKaNBlG6VuT1U22Hyn1g
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/46qAJTdb0tsgbv9W28FSXC🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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Burning Spear, leyenda viva del reggae, llega a España.
Conciertos el 22 de junio en Madrid y el 23 de junio en Bilbao.
Entradas disponibles desde el 11 de abril.#Reggae #BurningSpear #ConciertosEnEspaña #Música #Music
https://noticieromusical.com/burning-spear-conciertos-en-espana-este-junio -
🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Burning Spear:
🎵 Marcus Garveyhttps://dluxdropz.bandcamp.com/track/marcus-garvey-instrumental
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Burning Spear:
🎵 Natural Versionhttps://open.spotify.com/track/62cCGiLoL0m5jWS8Fd2B4d
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/46qAJTdb0tsgbv9W28FSXC🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow
Burning Spear:
🎵 The Sunhttps://open.spotify.com/track/0fcXoUxSlzlrQH9jwkThrO
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55kiq57r1ErxcYnr6B3P6g🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
As randomly chosen by survey* on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 973 on The List, submitted by yours truly (i.e., buffyleigh).
As I sadly so often end up doing, I often don’t catch up on an artist’s discography until after they’ve left us. And while the circumstances are sad, it can be a really beautiful experience to discover new favorite albums that I didn’t even know existed when the artist was with us. This album is one such discovery – Shuhada’ Sadaqat’s (a.k.a. Sinéad O’Connor’s) album of reggae covers.
I generally stay away from covers, especially if they’re done in the same style as the originals. But I think this entire album is so tastefully and beautifully done, Sadaqat’s respect for the material is so obvious. Introduced to reggae in her early London days via a friend who collected all the records that were on the Jamaican charts, and then becoming a fly on the wall of a record shop owned and frequented by old Jamaicans,** Sadaqat connected deeply with the Rastafari community, seeing parallels between their struggles and those of the Irish people, as well as how she approached her own beliefs. As she wrote in the liner notes:
Thanks first and foremost to the great men who wrote and performed these songs and whose inspiration has kept me nourished with strength at times when I might otherwise have lost faith in myself. These men were part of a battle fought for self esteem and for the freeing of God from religion. As such, they are my heroes, my teachers, my masters, my priests, my prophets, my guides and my godfathers. And I could never in a million words or years, express the love and gratitude I feel toward them, for the truth and rights which they benevolently taught through music and which raised God from the dead in the soul of a little Irish Catholic woman. Nor could I express the influence they have had on my own singing and songwriting. The originals of these songs can never be bettered, and so all I can hope in recording them, is to honour the composers and pass on their teachings…
Throw Down Your Arms was recorded in Jamaica and was produced by the amazing duo Sly & Robbie (i.e., Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare), who also played drums and bass on the album. Nearly half of the album is Burning Spear covers,*** the others covers of The Abyssinians, Junior Byles, Devon Irons, Israel Vibration, Peter Tosh, and Buju Banton, ending with Bob Marley & The Wailers’ “War” (which she had previously covered in the infamous 1992 Saturday Night Live performance). Sadaqat personally paid for the majority of the record herself and donated 10% of the profits to Rasta elders in Jamaica.
A physical copy of the album is a bit hard to track down but, if you can, try to get the double-disc version – the second disc is a really fantastic dub version of the album, which I tend to prefer. A Youtube link to the dub version is also below, hopefully it works for you.
Happy listening and, Shuhada’ Sadaqat, may you rest in peace.
- Songlink: Sinéad O’Connor – Throw Down Your Arms
- Youtube: Sinéad O’Connor – Throw Down Your Arms (dub version)
- Discogs: Sinéad O’Connor – Throw Down Your Arms
*The survey choices that led to this spotlight were “If you walk with Jesus”, “He’s gonna save your soul”, “You gotta keep the devil”, and “Way down in the hole”, following the earlier survey that had “When you walk through the garden”, “You gotta watch your back”, “Well, I beg your pardon”, and “Walk the straight and narrow track”. The fourth phrase was the winning selection, so the survey result was translated as picking the fourth album in The List with one of the phrase’s words in the title, the matching word here being “down”.
**See the chapter called “A Lesson or Two” in her memoir, Rememberings (which I highly recommend), published under the name Sinéad O’Connor.
***5 of the 12 songs are from Burning Spear. If you haven’t already, check out our earlier spotlight on Burning Spear’s Marcus Garvey, an album I actually discovered via Throw Down Your Arms (because I’m always doing these things backwards, lol).https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/08/21/sinead-oconnor-throw-down-your-arms-2005-ireland/
#1001OtherAlbums #2000s #BobMarley #BujuBanton #BurningSpear #covers #DevonIrons #dub #IsraelVibration #JuniorByles #PeterTosh #reggae #ShuhadaSadaqat #SineadOConnor #TheAbyssinians
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Burning Spear:
🎵 Man in the Hillshttps://open.spotify.com/track/4TU5NMfEMCDZQgpMlqLMAA
https://chalwa.bandcamp.com/track/man-in-the-hills-burning-spear
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[This guest post was written by mega-contributor platenworm about number 624 on The List; the album was submitted by buffyleigh.]
One of the milestones from the golden age of reggae. Dark lyrical matters on a ultra heavy bass background. With a deep deep production from Errol Thompson & Jack Ruby, this album has it all.
It came out in 1975 and on the bass we hear the recently passed away Aston “Family Man” Barrett alongside the also gone but not forgotten Robbie Shakespeare. But the man of the hour is of course Winston Rodney a.k.a. Burning Spear with his soulful voice. And lyrical wise, his uncompromising conscious Rastafarian views and the suffering due to the African diaspora by slavery. Deep Soul Blues music from Jamaica……..
And don’t forget to play the dub version “Garvey’s Ghost” right after this Roots Rock Reggae Masterpiece.
- Songwhip: Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey
- Songwhip: Burning Spear – Garvey’s Ghost
- Discogs: Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey
- Wikipedia: Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey
[Alt text for accompanying image: The album cover of “Marcus Garvey” by Burning Spear. The band name is printed at an angle in red font in the top-right corner, and the album name is along the bottom edge in grey font, with chainlinks printed on each side. The artwork is in black and negative of two people holding spears, with a round photo of Marcus Garvey in the bottom left corner.]
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/02/23/burning-spear-marcus-garvey-1975-jamaica/
#1001OtherAlbums #1970s #AstonBarrett #BurningSpear #Jamaica #MarcusGarvey #reggae #RobbieShakespeare #WinstonRodney
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Getting down with some #familyman tracks all day today. This is one of my faves from his output. Original pressing on Wolf. RIP. #nowplaying #vinyl #reggaerecords #jamaicanmusic #burningspear @vinylrecords
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1997 BBC charity single. Stars sing #LouReed's "Perfect Day".
What does the video tell us? That the BBC probably has tape of #Bono, #DavidBowie, #SkyeEdwards (of #Morcheeba), #EltonJohn, #BurningSpear, #HeatherSmall, #TammyWynette, #EmmylouHarris, #ShaneMcGowan, #EvanDando, #CourtneyPine, #RobertCray, #ThomasAllen, #JoanArmatrading, #LaurieAnderson, #TomJones and #DrJohn, each singing the song all of the way through, and that it would make one hell of an album. #music
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Praise Jah, we have a new album release from the mighty, mighty Winston Rodney aka #BurningSpear... I cannot explain why, but joy has filled this room and my soul... YES!
#reggae #MusicOfMastodon #music #legend #nowplaying #jamaica
https://open.spotify.com/album/0d7mWb6RQzGhVE30gFLFTt?si=SNiPqQXzToWKFWK6JzcOvg
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The answer to yesterday's #ThemeTunePopQuiz
1. Columbus #BurningSpear
2. Sweet Little Rock N Roller #ChuckBerry
3. Wichita Lineman #GlenCambell
Bonus track
4. Tallahassee #TheMountainGoatsThe theme is the song titles contain names of characters in the film #Zombieland
1. Columbus - Jesse Eisenberg
2. Little Rock - Abigail Breslin
3. Wichita - Emma Stone
4. Tallahassee - Woody HarrelsonI hope you liked playing along & listening to the songs. There'll be another #popquiz next weekend
