................. second half baby.
Mangrove Diaries Pt 2 from Shakka Philip on Vimeo.
Memories boi.
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Took me tyme to edit this .... enjoy!
Mangrove Diaries Pt 1 from Shakka Philip on Vimeo.
Part 2 to soon follow.
Shakka
Who's got Sky?
OK, Virgin Media, Homechoice, BT Vision ........ (who remember's ONDigital? - big in the 00's)
Whatever you've got, you've got MTVONE. Even if you've got Freeview, you've got that realityTV infested channel.
Pissed innit?
Shakka again on another point of the day. Just recently came off Kojo's blog on Youtube: On it, he was talkin' bout UK artists not gettin enough love, and how we should show appreciation for the POTENTIALS.
Made me think bout a lotta times that I'm actually findin' so many things wrong wit some o the artists who come out in the UK, and fail to embrace the good sides of their music, image, lyrics etc.
Then, after laughin' my arse off @ one of Kojo's skits, I stopped and thought, when was the last time I laughed so much at stand-up comedy, or just FUNNY JOKES?
This is why I asked bout MTVONE, Base, etc. If you take a look at it, there is some bullshit TV out there on a weekday night on MTV Base - I'M NOT DISSIN' NONE O THE MUSIC!!!!! I'm talkin bout the constant barrage of reality TV shows (that look more bait an' orchestrated danna disney flick). Sorry, but am I the only one who wants to see more "Spanking New Music", and less "I Love New York"?
Once again, it really is no disrespeck to the producers, editors and peeps @ MTV, I can understand the politics, revenue's, Reh-Teh-Teh.
But when we think bout it, THE UK (not jus London) is blessed with what we've got here.
Kojo the Stand Up comedian, has been constant to the point where his own comedy night has been consistent for bout 5 years - check his page - nuff videos. He's now doin stuff in New York.
N-Dubz have had 40 top hits on the UK singles chart - ........ need I say more?
As written in Incisive's latest blog (.:No more Classics) - downloadin has affected the way we listen to music. Not gonna front. It's now a fact.
But I think many people I speak to, or even listener's in general are quick to play the "back-in-the-day-music-was-love" card, and choose not to search. Or even choose not to listen.
Is London Lucky or WHAT??!!??
A few links:
Szjerdene Myspace - Szjerdene - soft soul of UK
Bluey Robinson Myspace - Bluey Robinson - funk/electro RnB of UK
Duke Myspace - DukeBox - raw voice, nuttin but good music
P.S: NU MUSIC UP SOON - UNI DEADLINES R A KILLAH!!!!!!!
Shax
Whar Gwarn PPLE.
Shakka bloggin' from Dominica (on the last day of being @ Dominica).
'twas big. Nottin but hard food, good family love, and nature on every corner. Customer service is WHACK but the food is good nonetheless.
What I don't understand is that there are so many customers for the KFC and the SUBWAY opened in Dominica, when there are bare good food restaurants cookin' Stew Chicken with Rice, Peas, Yam, Plantain, LENTILS ........ AAAAAAAH!!!!!!!! Baffles me, I swear.
I guess prob when you're used to the stores bein around you all the time, it's cool.
But enough wafflin' - Can you Feel my Style?
I went to the World Music Creole Festival (30th anniversary of Dom. independence) where Sean Paul, Kassav (creole band) and Machel Montano HD performed. And whilst I LOVE Sean Paul's tracks, he didn't deliver. Didn't move the crowd as much as I would have liked. Out of breath within the second track, and the live band with the backin' track was LACKIN' (part from "Never Gonna Be The Same" - tune was big).
Then, after people were cussin, it made me think bout how I perform on stage. How hard it is to move a crowd (coz u lot r stiff - show NO love, i've seen u lot @ Open Mic Nights - clappin like I owe u money). How easy it is to front, just to get people to feel u.
Don't get me wrong, with Sean Paul he's had BAARE time in the music game to get it together, people know the words to his music, and his name is an established brand anyway.
But still, when rockin LIVE, I would want to see a PERFORMANCE!
Easier said than done I guess. Even with MY hype.
Pictures and video's soon.
Shax
P.S: U lot ain't had nottn' till you've tasted LOCAL JUICE!!!!!!! PASSIONFRUIT, GRAPEFRUIT, TANGERINE, CHERRY (whell, not so much Grapefruit).
P.S.S: Oh yeh, and two Soft Drinks - Quenchy (Red), and Fanta (Orange, the colour of the drink is actually orange)
For me, yeah, I always have periods where I rinse a song for bout a month.
.... Yeh whuss wrong wit dat?
Shut up.
Chief.
Nah seriously, there are times where the song would become rinsed to the point where it becomes part of a memorable "minute" o my life. Dat "Songmery" is brought on the brain, with jus a few bars of a track, like, years later.
- Outkast - Prototype: prom night, year 11/urban music sommer school '05 (2005)
- Shanks and Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate: Year 6 school trip (2000)
- Musiq - justfriends: CYM music school bussin jokes to lessons (2004)
..... the list could go on .....
This summer was the year of music makin galore ('Cisive, Botanical heads Szjerdene, Duke). And of course Mangrove Steel Band played a big role in my summer.
This year? will.i.am - One More Chance (2008) from the album Songs About Girls" (which I think is a big album - "ain't it pretty" - big chune).
Why? I dunno. Coz I guess it represented the whole "feel good" atmosphere I seemed to constantly be around durin summer. If not at the studio wit 'Cise, or TE1, then at band practise. If not there, then jammin @ the Botanical Gardens ('tube it). Or wit work mates, or jus ravin with loved ones.
And also coz I made more music then - as if perfection was just ignored, and I jus recorded what was in my head at the time. And writer's block is a bitch too ("makin good music" - Incisive' blog) so when this random spurt of music comes it feels good.
Obviously there r bad ones too, but this was the one I jus remembered. Thought 'twas good to share.
Ur turn. What Songmeries or Musictures have u lot got?
Shax
(P.S: Mangrove diaries - up on the blog, Facebook, Myspace, and Youtube soon)
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What's gwarnin people. Mr.Procrastinator here.
I'm callin myself this coz in about 2 weeks, the whole 'REGULAR' updatin process is gonna decline drastically. Uni is beginnin' and they ain't makin it easier with their mad timetables they be givin me. So I'm gonna be a bit distant for about a couple months until christmas.
But just as I'm typin this, I'm thinkin bout what I got told recently:
"Shakka, you aren't happy unless you're doin somethin'". Ain't gonna front, this is true. I can't sit down at home, and just watch tv for more than an hour (sometimes even half an hour), with the fear that time has gone and I've missed the chance to do something constructive. I've been told that it's bad because you don't focus when you really need to, like concentrate in a lecture, or talk on the phone to the missus (.... Huh, what did you sa...... Nah I was listenin to you. I weren't on facebook).
Others like keep-it-movin-CISIVE (myspace.com/incisive1 - "Nothing Else Compares" is a big tune), seems to be the same as me, but also seems focused on his " 'ish ". Never a scatter brains when it's time for studio.
Especially nowadays, it pays to be busy, when people be checkin your 'space an sayin:
"Ey bway! Where de nu chunes deh?!"
So my arm's been twisted to ask the question: Busy coz you wanna be, or coz u HAVE to be?
Shax
P.s: There should be a few nu videos of me in jammin, rehearsal, and studio sessions soon. So HAVE patience!!!!
On my way to a Steel Pan meeting, and I see one of my friends down the road from where I live, just chillin' on his doorstep. And what would normally be a Hi and Bye, became me showin' him the latest tune I posted on the Myspace - Pourquoi.
Might have been expectin' me to play some RnB tune, I dunno. But after a few minutes he seemed to be enjoyin' it a lot. Givin' me some positive feedback on lyrical content an ting.
"The tune starts off slow at first, and then later on, I dunno (shakes shoulders), you feel the vibe a lot more ...."
(not even gonna lie, my head was the size of a Watermelon after he said this)
Don't really know why I'm postin' this, but sometimes I get skeptical of who I am playin' what to. Coz there are only certain heads who would go for a tune with a latin bass line, or congas, or something other than the BOOM-BOOM-click tunes.
Shout out to Mr.X for the good response. Helped to boost confidence BIG tyme.
(don't wanna go baitin' out his name, for privacy reasons of course)
myspace.com/shaxmusic - track 6: Pourqoui
Shax
And yet ANOTHER POST!!!!!!!
myspace.com/shaxmusic
myspace.com/shaxmusic
myspace.com/shaxmusic
I"ve put some new songs on the Myspace. Some of you have heard them before. Thought I might as well seein' as a few heads asked for them.
Talk to Me, and Pourquoi are the new tracks. Both are kinda rough, and both are gonna be on the Foolishness Vol.1 EP, to be released in mid 200-someting.
Yeh, this has been goin on for some time now, lol. It's comin soon, I swear!
(thumbs up to A.C Layne, for the Weyoo beat - nothin but music baybeh)
myspace.com/shaxmusic
myspace.com/shaxmusic
myspace.com/shaxmusic
Shax
Another post. This time, of the Steel Band I played in during Summer 08 - Notting Hill's Mangrove.
The song we played: Thunder Coming. Arranged by Andre White.
For those who played with me ......... memories boy. Tight like fresh braces.
(I'm the one in the green - far left - head lakka Churchill Dog Doll)
Shax
