Upsetting Dokko Comes to Toronto

At 12:30 today, we will talk to Shabazz from Diasporic Music, Greg Lawson, and one of the film-makers of this historically timely and necessary documentary.

Orbiting Around Owen Gray

Wiki-wise, "Owen Gray also known as Owen Grey (born 5 July 1939) is one of Jamaica's 'Foundation' singers whose work spans the R&B, ska, rocksteady, and reggae eras of Jamaican music, and he has been credited as Jamaica's first home-grown singing star."

One of the true pioneers of the Jamaican music industry alongside such revered artists as Jackie Edwards, Laurel Aitken, Simms & Robinson, Alton Ellis, and Derrick Morgan, to name just a few, he hasn't yet received the recognition that is due him, particularly from a government which still fails to do the job in honoring these vintage names for their outstanding contributions to the development of Jamaican music. 

At 1:00 Friday September 30, be there in Corby's Orbit when Greg Lawson comes in spinning to large up the station with Owen Gray material spanning his career of unique and original musical conceptions.


As the man himself has said : "I'm tellin' you, I'm tellin' you! I said before I go I have to sing a regular reggae in opera, because everything I do from Jamaica is the first, the first, the first, first, first, first. But unrecognised (pauses)... by the government. I've seen artists that comes after me, looooong long after me, they can't even hold a range of a chord today, and they're giving them big awards and all them things! And neither myself nor Bunny Lee get nothing!"

Thanks to Peter I for use of quotations from his thorough interview with Owen Gray at http://www.reggae-vibes.com/concert/owengray/owengray.htm

Playlist for September 23

Playlist for Corby’s Orbit on CKLN.FM, Show of Friday, September 23, 2011

Host Paul Corby, guests Rebecca Everett and Dan Mock

 (brought to you by Moving Space Fragrances, Magnetic Shakes Piercings, and Your Name Here)

11-2 p.m. online. Canadians in red.

11:00 After All, The Fall, Another Small World

Snatam Kaur – Hariaa (Strength)

Minor Empire – Zuluf Dokulmus Yuze @The Music Gallery Friday November 4

Prince Enoki’s Insect Orchestra – Tobacco

Luisa Maita – Alivio @ Yonge Dundas Square Saturday, 8:00

Silk Road – A Moving Sound

11:30 Action Figures

[dunkelbunt] – Tropic Sensi @ The Great Hall Next Saturday Oct. 1

Mad Professor – Radiation Ruling the Nation / feat. John Geilgud Sonnet 53

Rachid Taha – Ya Rayah

Adam Solomon – Believe I Love You (Congratulations to him and his new bride, Nancy)

Rock, Vapor, Visions

We Barbarians – The Wait is Over

Skindred – State of Emergency

The DoneFors – The Narrator

Paul Brady – Dream Will Come @ Hugh’s Room, Sunday, Sept. 25

12:00 Breathing The Rain

Alannah Cherote – Roses In My Side

Rebecca Everett – Moondrops / Interview / Yoyo / @ The Piston Wednesday Sept. 28

Lindi Ortega – Dying of Another Broken Heart

Daniel Sky – We’re So Fine @ The Dakota Thursday October 27

Soul Adrenaline

Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life

The Barr Brothers – Lord, I Just Can’t Keep From Crying @ The Drake, Wednesday October 12

Ry Cooder – John Lee Hooker For President

Malcolm Holcomb – One Man Singin’

1:00 Deep Letting-Go

Jonathan Richman  -  If You Want To Leave Our Party, Just Go

                                         @ Revival Wed. & Thurs., Oct. 5&6

The Wood Buffalo Youth Songs Project – What Would Life Be Like

The Deep Dark Woods – The Ballad of Frank Dupree

Harlan Pepper – Little Miss Sunshine

John Showman – Coldfront  @ The Local , Saturday

Upward Ballast

The National – Little Faith @ACC December 8

Ronley Teper -  Cuplits and What-ifs

Local Listings over Claudio Roditi – Mr. P.C.

Tanya Philipovich – Inuit Chicken Sculpture / Page 79 @ The Press Club Saturday

David Francey – Saturday Night @ Hugh’s Room Friday-Saturday, September 29-30

Peter Traynor - Built To Last

Jack Marks vs. The West. I'm betting on Jack!

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

I Wanna Hear And See…. uh, Everything

Up From The Skies

   On this date in 1970, Jimi Hendrix was perhaps murdered, perhaps by his manager, British Intelligence’s MI-5 agent, Michael Jeffreys, who, though listed as a casualty in an airline crash, may still be alive.

   Jimi, though! He brought fresh cascades and categories of primal sound into being, very much based upon the voice of Little Richard, the saxophone of King Curtis, the vernacular of the blues and R&B, and the sound of warplane engines, which he absorbed as a paratrooper at Fort Campbell. (As he jumped, he would later recall, "...once you get out there everything is so quiet, all you hear is the breezes-s-s-s...".

     The first proponent of Marshall amplifiers, which bore his own middle name, he made the whammy bar, feedback and distortion the new language of electric guitars. The conversational quality of his pioneering use of the wah-wah pedal gave him unique proprietry, in rock music, over the prolonged line in improvising paragraphs of music outside of the melodic limits of traditional electric guitar players.

He channeled Bob Dylan’s beat storm-of-consciousness lyrical energy and dressed as a Beatle would. In managing this level of adaptation, he became the first and foremost Afro-American (and Cherokee) in the revolutionary hippie assault on the worldwide military-industrial establishment.

Gentle and perpetually bemused, he avoided political involvement, making private donations to organizations that he felt supported a freer world. However, he was drawn into confrontation with the law over his use of recreational and psychedelic drugs, most notably in Toronto in 1969.

His influence over the cultural activism and artistry of progressive music continues to this day.