As we live to feel things that
savour our souls especially in time Of depression, it often gives meaning to
life by adding taste to it in terms of bringing delight with ingredients to
soul searching and helping body satisfaction from rather moving back-wards.
It also explains these reality
that every living things comes at some points and go, some amazing things that
we human beings dominates on this planet earth and admires, like animals, sweet
rhythms that provide food for the heart, comes and when the time is ripe for
them to go .
Its comes with adding pains and sorrows that
even when asked, we wouldn’t have wished it goes, but then, some would have
rather stay, if the inevitability of human efforts are things to go by, it
would have been comprehensible where-with, encourages sustainability in
replenishing it self, where productivity would have become the other of the
day, discovering more talent and harnessing them, indeed, where it would have
succeed in discouraging it movements into gradual extinction.
Par-harps, having sweet lyrics
as something that provides food to the heart can be joyful, but not when we are
circled with the predicament of its gradual movement towards an end, and has no
means of survival can be a permanent burden to the soul of many with desirable
interest in those enviable melodies that provide food to their heart .Continue.
I was at home over the weekend
when I was tuning the channel of my television set to find some suitable
programme that can support my instinct of having joyful moments of relaxation
with my family. As it was my normal routine especially after the usual hustle
and bustle over the week and then the period of weekends is to find time to
have some pate of re-union with them.
Then come some very interesting
programme that is put together by ultima studio the organizers project fame in
bringing up young talent into fame, helping them develop their potentials in
various fields of music endeavor.
Watching that episode on that
superlative Sunday was indeed ironical. It was time for their usual task
individually. instructively, the type of music that is expected of them perform
turned to be reggae music, on noticing, I pursed a bit, went into memories, to
remember those legendary with that pattern of music and how their efforts had
so far paid off when in their last episode, they introduced waka, an indigenous
music that helped one of its contestant clinched third runner up position in
their last edition, and had since been recognized globally with it, through
their discoveries and also, was equally amazed in noticing their smartness for
infusing that pattern of rhythmic out-flow into their weekly schedule and not
allowing reggae music movement go into extinction.
That moment was quite
significant, in that, it was a day set out for them to perform reggae germs in
their usual task of the week. It catches my attraction where it made me stayed
glowed to that particular station. it tailored me back into the good old days,
after seeing one of the contestants playing one of the leads songs of majek
fashek, titled ‘’send dawn the rain’’.
That moment saw the audience in
high spiritually lifted mood, living some shouting the name of the originator,
whilst some are in confuse stage as to whether they can in actual sense, get
another performer and excellent composer in replacement of majek fashek in
their generation. The contestant gave his all, he was actually wearing the same
attire to which the artist used to perform in its originality, the bell he used
when he was said to be chanting that rhythmic phrase ‘’send dawn the rain’’,
and then picturing out the majek’s own video, what I remembered was that after
chanting those words, the rain began with drizzling, whether or not it was
real, the reality then was that it ended up dropping, and indeed the contestant
was unable to achieve that when performing his music, so sad.
But then, what it gave birth
to, that is more of concern here is in the fact that majek has stopped
performing in spite of the admixture between modernity and Stone Age his music
performance has been able to build with-which he was able to achieve in his
generation with another reminder of some other known artists in the reggae
industries too that had come and gone.
The legendary bob-merely whose music still
remains ever green gave his best and is much celebrated in so many countries of
the world. His music still depict different things to so many people, the
lyrics alone has become some house hold choice of music like the world most
acceptable tone sax of Kenny G. for some of us, who truly understands how music
feed our souls.
His saxophone interpretations
alone gives varieties of meanings that one can allude to the allure tunes of
tony Montana legendary sort after concepts Guitarist of barricading the
uniqueness of his tones to over shadows whoever he was having collaborations
with in time of engagements.
Bob-merely had been on for
decades, and after he left, his music’s never stops lifting the souls of many.
More in tune was when project fame organizers dedicated reggae performance as
task for its contestants that week, it was time for another artists’ to perfume
lucky dube’s music, another sporadic shouting gout the air, opening old wounds,
allowing many of his admirers to remember the tragic accident that cut-short his
life back there in south Africa on that faithful day.
To those audiences, it was the
time to raise there pla-card everywhere with different inscription, as means
paying glowing tribute and homage to the great legendary reggae artist.
To me, indeed it was time for
me to begin by reflecting about the past in the annals of things to imagine and
then ponder about what is gradually bringing dawn these wonderful artist who in
different foray, have succeeded in using their talents to lift so many
challenged souls and gradually, we begin to see them no more and their concepts
and types of reggae music pattern its self, is gradually fading away especially
in our country Nigeria
. If I must add, the interview
granted by terry G in punch newspaper, describing one Nolly-wood actress as
being the one that actually introduced him into smoking weeds can be telling
and that which even add up in my thinking and thought about the engraving
situation one can build its argument on, as a pointer of having found to be one
factor for the gradual extinction of so many of our reggae artist.
If we must reflect back to
history, it was reported also, that Majek Fashek had similar challenges and that
there was some certain time the family were trying to revive him of those
addiction of drug he got him-self, into as revealed in some dailies, and till
this moment, the challenges still persist, making him not fit any more to
perform and keep the spirits of reggae music flying, the same goes to so many
with similar experiences except for Lucky Dube who was reportedly killed by
people of the other side signifying racism as being what lead to shooting him
in Pretoria.
The point I am driving here is
that many reggae artist all over the world are rather had one relationship with
drug addiction or the other and then as result, create more trouble for them
self’s and at the end, there life is cut short, and Nigeria is no exception.
Could this then be the reason reggae music is gradually moving into extinction?
Was also reflecting into the music of terry G and then to discover in the
message he was passing out to the public when he said ‘’if you run faster than
I do, then you go, run mad’’ what else could one add up in his reasonability of
thoughts to understands the direction our reggae artist are moving on towards…
please, pardon my decision to relax my mind whilst I take some liquid content
of wine as I chill for some moment…
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