Django Novo returns to the origins of his musical influences - reggae music. Django remembers well his great mentor Freddy Poncin from Amsterdam. He was 4 - 5 years older than Django, who then was a 7 year old kid living partly in Amsterdam with his artist family:
Freddy played congas, was riding the skateboard upside down on his hands and mastered the Nunchakus. Freddy - who ended up a drum teacher - and who also formed a band with famous football player and artist Ruud Gullit (Revelation Time) would secretly become Djangos hero for years. They are both graphic designers. Freddy Poncin lives in Australia, whilst Django comes from the land of the north seas, Norway. Django looked Freddy up on the net, and they are now in contact again. After 34 years.Long time fellow musician and friend Zilverzurf is collaborating on Djangos "Seven Years". Zilverzurf is also an influence and great inspiration for Django - who offered song and melody on Zilverzurfs (aka Johan Zachrisson) world music debut "Rithmo de Estorninhos" way back in the early 1990s.Django Novo has left all his heros from the past, and the music that pours out of the speakers are all original stuff - derived and inspired by the great spirit of mankind and beyond.
Biographer and poet Jabez L. Van Cleef (160709) wrote:
Slowly, slowly we turn our heads to the peeling tarnished mirror of where we live, and see, what, stranger man… is there a stranger man? Can there possibly be a stranger man, or are we condemned to kill them all, one by one, until there are no more mouths to feed than bites of bread to feed them…
and high over the avenues, the privy-ledged ones order up their Chinese, order up their grocery delivery boys, ride their mobile fortress limo jeep hummer combat vehicles to the local entertainment emporia searching for cheap gas, metaphorical nipples to suck on, and intravenous doses of that post apocalyptico reggae beat, stranger than strange…
Ziggy says, When the lights gone out and the food run out, all we have is just the music…
Every winter when it gets cold, I hide down in the basement of my suburbia, with a little loom in front of me, weaving woolen shawls. Slowly the before-ancient rhythm of a spell descends on me in the dimness, click-clack with the rhythm of the reed beating the thread of the weft into place, the color spelling itself out along the alternating threads, the needle waiting to finish off the hem…
I am suspended by my fingers over twenty-five thousand years of instinct, trying to keep myself warm in the damp cellar of life, while the ticking, clicking waves of hot, tropical revolution pump into my mind like a hot stew of chicken, onions, peppers, and sweat…
And Ziggy says, We got to do what Jah Jah will, or get burned within the fire…
And when Django felt that reggae snake wound round his throat, his voice went all flamenco, like the men sitting off to the side there, wringing their sinewy hands, clapping low, clapping high, wavering into scattered melismas like the muezzin on the mosque…
You can hear the anxiety trying to creep out through the crack under the wall of the door of old Django’s voice, the plea to share, the weariness, the zero holding the space where something called love used to linger…
And Ziggy hears him, and says, Love is the only law to obey…
(Notes by Jabez L. Van Cleef. Lyrics by Ziggy Marley, copyright 1989, Ziggy Music, Inc.)
Novo Source origin derives from the inner city of Oslo stretching down to the mountains of Algarve.
Novo Source featuring Zilverzurf is a collaboration between Django Novo (aka Django Kuiters) and Zilverzurf (aka Johan Zachrisson). Novo Source intents to explore the world music scene with original tracks created in collaboration with guest vocalists and guest musicians.
Novo Source has already grabbed the attention of independent label POETS CLUB RECORDS and are scheduled to release the track "Seven Years" and "Stranger Man" (singles) on their forthcoming dub compilation album.
Stay tuned as material will come alive on this site.
"Seven Years" and "Man Machine": Music written by Novo Source. Vocals and acoustic guitar by Novo Source. Electric guitars and bass by Zilverzurf.
Programming by Novo Source and Zilverzurf.
Produced and arranged by Novo Source and Zilverzurf.
Recorded in Estorninhos, Portugal January 2008.
"Stranger Man", "Man On The Run" (new!) and "Foreign Town" written and performed by Novo Source. Lead vocals on "Foreign Town" by Baba. Recorded in Oslo, Norway spring 2008.
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