The Blue Nile X-Press train ride continues, check out my band at - myspace/bluenilexpress. I'm a musical sponge, everything I've heard my whole life has absorbed into me. I've listened to and have played music from around the globe, and have learned that musicians/artists get along fine where ever I go, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, Rasta, Jewish, Hindu, no matter we all come together and make music. I've been blessed to work with some true pioneers the last 25 years. This is some bands I've worked with: Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus, Wailing Souls, Joe Higgs, Garth Dennis, Watts Prophets, Stranjah Cole, The Rastafarians, Haile Maskel, One Soul, Santa Davis, Masamba (Senegal), Totem (latin), Shakaman, Cedric Im Brooks, Nyofu, Jawge & the UKB, Too Rude, Kottonmouth Kings, Leon Mobley & Da Lion, Nate Morgan, Bobby Bryant Jr., WoodDwellas, Caribbean Pulse, Dred Flimstone, Elias Negash, Chachi(Ethiopia), Dub Squad, Rhythm Doctors, Lesterfari, Junior Toots, Yoli, Ital Joe, Wadada Khufu, Kebade, Human Rights (HR), Junior P, Remi Kabaka(Nigeria), Eddy Mallo(Cuba), Swelele, KK(2nd to None), Chu & the Project Blowed All Stars, Boom Tony, Jah Eye, Bredren, Steve Smith, Tracey Amos, Bukkiah, Hadji Tekbilek (Turkey), Hasan Bah (Guinea), AL.s Peace, Jah Mark & the SoulShakers, Napalm Clique, Freedom Jazz Movement, Sita, Ras Bunny, Ladee Dread, Ras Indio.....I love Roots & Culture, art, traveling, learning from different cultures and people, mystical & spiritual teachings, and most of all LOVE, that is the answer to all the earth blues. Here's a few videos of some bands I work with. Remi "Kabox" Kabaka live @Afro Funk/Zanzibar 2007
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Add to My Profile | More Videos Nyofu - Little Turns / Water Wheel
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Add to My Profile | More Videos the Rastafarians @ Dreadstock AL.s Peace @ The Stone Bar
Irie people from anywhere. Singers & players of instruments, songwriters, poets, producers, sponsors, directors, booking agents, promoters, rebels, a good car mechanic, conscious women, Jack Nicholson (that would be a trip)
I've always listened to as much different music as I could - my favorite's are Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Misty in Roots, John Coltrane, Santana, James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone, Fela Kuti, John McLaughlin, Ijahman Levi, Chinna Smith, Nyabinghi, Roots Reggae, African music, Hamza el Din, Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate, Paco de Lucia, Manitas Di Plata, Sabicas, Jaco Pastorius, Gabor Szabo, Jeff Beck, Duke Ellington, Ras Michael, The Rastafarians, Joe Higgs, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Delta Blues, Ravi Shankar, Middle Eastern music......
Countryman, The Harder They Come, Super Fly(best soundtrack), The Godfather (all of em), Steppenwolf, love kung fu movies, comedies, Inconvenient Truth (get it), Network......more later
Laker games(yeah I know, drama, drama, drama), 24, I really don't watch much TV
I love history and spirituality, here's some good reading. Any book by Cheik Anta Diop- my fav is From Civilization to Barbarism, all books by: Ivan Van Sertima, Krishnamurti, Kalil Gibran, and Buddha; The Music of Life by Sufi Inayat Khan,My Life Preceding 10,000 Burials by Hamed Bey, Man Visible and Invisible by C.W. Leadbeater, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire by Drusilla Houston, The Anacalypsis by Godfrey Higgins, Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Haile Selassie I Autobiography, Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse..... too many to name,
Defend your family, truth and rights, equality and justice, do the right thing and you're a hero. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Bob Marley, Gandhi, Harriet Tubman, Chief Seattle, Nelson Mandela, HIM... to name a few