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Mally Bless Album Release Triumph

9/30/2022

Mally Bless Album Launch

A true highlight to the reggae year of 2022 was the event hosted last evening by The Starliners crew, Tonya P and Mally Bless and their team at 3030 Dundas

The evening was blessed

Sooooo many folks from all parts of the industry showed up on a Thursday night to support this crew of friends and peers who are truly elevating Canadian reggae culture

Big props to the culture of RasTafari presence, in the face of what we are living inna Babylon in this time

Major props to Briggidier Kingsly of Jah International for PROPER selections last evening. De selecta had me dancing whole night long

I love the ascetic of a live band

I love the sound of a live band

What a blessing to dance to live reggae music. It is a gift to preserve

The Starliners band of Yezer Root on bass, drummie O'Neil Fuller, guitsy Laza and Wiz on keys was truly fire. Empress Harmony and Shanty Sweets are a dangerous Duo and sweeter as a trio with Tonya P

A night like this truly elevates all in the room as well as the Canadian reggae vibez

Mally Bless album is fire

Performance up

Musical arrangement up

Big love to individual performances by Tonya P, Empress Minott, Ras Malkam, Elijah de Leader, Empress Harmony & Shanty Sweets who helped to lift the vibez even higher with their presentations

Mally Bless, a conscious, humble man with a message of love, defiance fight and RasTafari energy uplifted all in the room. He had the crowd with him from beginning to end of his set, starting with a nyabinghi, RasTafari chant. Performance top a top!

I bought his album / CD

Proud of I n I purchase

I said it before and will say it once again, if you / we wish to rise as a culture, let us all push this Starliners crew forward as they are truly elevating us

RasTafari guidance

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Feel Reggae Recap

9/29/2022

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I feel like a few more folks are ovastanding the merit in the "building our own table" concept

It is prudent to protect and to elevate one's self in this jungle of life

I will continue to share these thoughts of independence even within the belly of the beast. We do need to survive but what are you / we willing to concede to achieve these goals?

The talent is unquestionable for some

How do we export our music to other provinces?

How do we connect to Torontonians who wish to hear and to purchase our music?

Where is our pipeline to selling our music internationally?

As we have established on several occasions, reggae music has been in Canada for 60 years now and its lack of support range into several excuses by old, white racist men and women, giving us lines like,

1. "Reggae is too mainstream for us to give funding"

"If it were so mainstream, why aren't we hearing it on the radio?" I says, and there is an awkward silence

2. "Reggae is indigenous to Jamaica, its not Canadian, so we cannot fund it". Another racist ass, side step, to avoid investing in Canadians. Us!

3. "Reggae is Jamaican, so we can't play it on our radio stations"

4. "Reggae does not suit our formatting". My favorite, vague, bullshit excuse of the most racist kind

I'm sure I've forgotten the myriad of reasons and excuses that I have received over the years

The bullshit is 60 years and going

But I was built to listen to all of that fuckery and still choose to create my own space and I encourage others to see these things as they present themselves and to respond accordingly and seek fiscal upliftmet today as well as for future generations

I give props to Toronto Reggae's, Jason McLean, working on something "reggae" for over a decade now. I knew that this dude Jason was a reggae nerd like me, mindlessly working on our culture every single day

Again I send big love to Mally Bless and Tonya P whose efforts in the last couple of years of the Starliners Entertainment company have truly elevated the culture

There are more good folks out there doing the good works and we should be connecting those dots and growing this even more

Big up Emile Reed of The Boxing Loft, as venues for live reggae music are not easily accessible in these times and the BL has been a refuge for the culture

Props to Music Ontario for seeking inclusion to this reggae culture and supporting this event. Blessings Emy and Matt

It was awesome to speak with DillanPonders, an independent artist, successfully moving though the music industry, giving us insights on mindset, determination, work ethic and a willingness to stand alone and let your own personality / brand be the only focus

All of these pitfalls are real but they do not need to be our focus

My thoughts are on creating a path that fiscally benefits and rewards the time and effort that we invest in our culture

Our next Feel Reggae event will be Saturday, 29th October, details to come

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