Message from Mickey Smith, CLF ART CAFE
THURSDAY 15th DECEMBER
The CLF Art Cafe
The Bussey Building,
133 Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST
http://www.clfartcafe.org
A special SPOKEN WORD event = Modern Day Poets. Soothsayers, Story Tellers. Artists who take to the stage and verbally fire consciousness at their audience.
5.00pm venue opens
7.00pm Event starts
7.30pm Live spoken word guests
c8.30pm Film screening of the film Mutabaraku – Return to the Motherland
c10.00pm Mutabaraku LIVE on stage
See further details below.
Why not visit to see what is emerging in modern entertainment? This is what The Observer said about our local Bussey building on 13 November 2011: “a cafe, an art gallery and a magical performance space, The Bussey Building is the urban equivalent of The Secret Garden.”
£5/£7/£10 ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW.
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?315392
TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR
Further info on the Bussey building and the successful Peckham Vision campaign to save it:
http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Bussey_Building
http://www.peckhamvision.org
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Dear Friend of The CLF,
Re MUTABARUKA, LEGENDARY DUB POET LIVE at THE BUSSEY BUILDING
We have booked a major Spoken Word show for Thurs Dec 15th featuring the Legendary Mutabaraku + The Cream of The London Poetry Scene, Including Jonzi-D, AmeN Noir, Lyric L and Tshaka, DJ Jazzheadchronic + More. The event is truly important to our wave of creative shows in Peckham.
Please find Info below / attached + I truly hope that you can help us spread the word about the Peckham Visit by Mutabaruka.
Doing some great shows in SE15 + really need help with our continued promotion of Peckham in the right direction.
Mickey Smith
ECD / The Chronic Love Foundation [CLF]
msmith@clfplanet.com
+44 07941429 374
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www.youtube.com/clfplanet
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SPECIAL SPOKEN WORD EVENT! EVITE
THURS DEC 15 @ THE CLF ART CAFE / BUSSEY BUILDING
Extremely popular modern type of event. From Beatnik style cafes to stadium filling performers such as Gil Scott Heron or Linton Kwesi Johnson. And Thursdays act is right up there as one of the best. A true modern day legend, a civil rights vocal activist born of the end of 60s movement.
MUTABARUKA, LEGENDARY DUB POET LIVE + Vocal Guests Jonzi-D, AmeN Noir (BKS), Lyric L, Tshaka + DJ Jazzheadchronic & Mutabaruka Film Screening of THE RETURN OF THE MOTHERLAND
THURS DEC 15 / 7PM – 12AM
The CLF Art Cafe
Block A, The Bussey Building,
133 Rye Lane, London SE15 4ST
www.clfartcafe.org
Mutabaruka – Internationally renowned reggae star and rastafari from Jamaica – the poet of the underdogs, comes to Peckham to perform at The Multi-Level Music, Art & Theatre Space – The CLF Art Cafe. [The venue also known as The Bussey Building and Bussey Warehouse] Look out for “The voice of justified anger – with words sharp like razors” The Legendary Dub Poet Mutabaruka and his revolutionary evolutionary poems expertly delivered in the style of mind to mind combat – as one of the true greats and Innovators of the evolution of The Spoken word takes to the stage for over 70 mins. Mutabaruka Supported by some of the leading poets on The London scene Jonzi-D, AmeN NoiR (BKS), LyricL + Tshaka who open the show.
Event Starts at 7pm [Venue open from 5pm], followed at 7 30pm by an hour of live guest performances – and at around 8 30pm a special 90 min screening of, Mutabaruka – Return To The Motherland, “No voyage was more important to the artist than his return to the land of his forefathers, Africa, to visit the Panafest, a cultural festival that celebrates the reunion of the African families.” The movie documents this voyage and how Mutabaruka reunited with his stolen history at the place where that voyage started centuries ago, in the slave forts of Ghana.
The Event finishing off with a 70+ Minute Mutabaruka Live “Vocal Escapade Across Planet We …. to I and I, Eye For An Eye to Jah Rasta-Fari” Don’t miss this rare chance to catch one of the Worlds truly great artists. An Originator and spoken word pioneer. A true lyrical champion of the underdog!
Mutabaruka on stage around 10pm.
£5/£7/£10 ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW.
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?315392
TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR!!
Artist Info
Mutabaruka on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn-f8PgLVjU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ils05M3h2ho&feature=related
Jonzi-D
http://www.britishhiphop.co.uk/features/articles/jonzi_d_-_biography.html
AmeN Noir (BKS)
http://www.amennoir.com
LyricL,
http://www.bluesandsoul.com/review/1664/lyricl_amazed_fresh_rotations/
Tshaka
http://www.naturalkink.com/
Jazzheadchronic
http://www.myspace.com/jazzheadchronic
The CLF Art Cafe / Bussey Building
http://www.clfartcafe.org
Mutabaruka Artist Biography
His poems have given voice to a nation and helped forge an entirely new genre of music, dub/rhythm poetry. Revolutionary, fiery, scathing, and stinging, Mutabaruka’s words are as potent on paper as on CD, and so the literary community needed to create a new term just for his works — meta-dub. Born in Rae Town, Jamaica, on December 12, 1952, Allan Hope first realized the power of the word when he was in his teens. It was the ’60s; the Black Power movement was at its height, and numerous radical leaders were putting their thoughts and histories in print. Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver formed the roots of Hope’s own aspirations, although his initial career choice was far removed from their paths. Leaving school, the young man apprenticed as an electrician, and took a job at the Jamaican Telephone Company. Hope was already writing, however, and in 1971 he quit his job to pursue his craft full-time. He moved away from the hustle and bustle of Kingston out to the quiet of the Potosi hills, in the parish of Saint James. Not long after, one of his poems was accepted by Swing magazine and from that point on, they would regularly publish his work.
In 1973, Hope formed the band Truth, his first attempt to combine his words with music. By now, the poet had converted to Rastafarianism and taken the name Mutabaruka. Not a word, but a phrase, mutabaruka comes from the Rwandan language and translates as “one who is always victorious.” Even as roots was taking hold, Truth did not find a following. However, Mutabaruka was finding fans in the literary world after the publication of his collection, Outcry, in 1973. The following year brought further recognition with the poem “Wailin’,”dedicated to Bob Marley, and written around Wailers song titles. Two years later, Sun and Moon, a shared volume of poetry with Faybiene, arrived to much acclaim. In 1977, Mutabaruka once again turned to the stage, and gave several live performances. Joined by the nyabinghi-fueled group Light of Saba, the poet recorded a version of his poem “Outcry” the next year, and found himself with a Jamaican hit. Meanwhile, guitarist Earl “Chinna” Smith had launched his own High Times label as a home for deep roots music, and swiftly signed the poet. Mutabaruka’s star was rising, and his appearance at the National Stadium in Kingston this same year was a smashing success. Over the next few years, he cut a clutch of singles for High Times, and received even further literary acclaim in 1981 with a new volume of poems, The Book: First Poems. That same year, Mutabaruka had a hit with the single “Everytime a Ear De Soun,” while his fiery debut at Reggae Sunsplash was captured for posterity for a live album released in 1982. It was this performance that brought Mutabaruka to international attention, and guaranteed return appearance at the festival over the next two years.
His debut album, Check It, was released in 1983, a dubby classic with the poet accompanied by Smith’s exquisitely rootsy guitar. The album was remastered and reissued by the RAS label in 2001. 1985 saw another successful return to Reggae Sunsplash and a project with the American Heartbeat label, overseeing the compilation of the dub poetry album Work Sound ‘Ave Power: Dub Poets and Dub. A dub accompaniment followed, remixed by Scientist, along with a second dub poetry set, Woman Talk: Caribbean Dub Poetry, this time exclusively featuring women dub and rapso poets. Mutabaruka also struck a distribution deal with the American RAS label, and cemented the partnership with the ferocious The Mystery Unfolds album in 1986. Self-produced and featuring a host of guest musicians and vocalists, including Marcia Griffiths and Ini Kamoze, Mystery was totally uncompromising. Amidst a host of tough tracks was “Dis Poem,” a number meant to puncture not only the listener’s expectations, but the poet’s pretensions as well. One of Mutabaruka’s most entertaining, yet thought-provoking poems, it would later be included in the
definitive The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature.
Although neither 1987’s Outcry nor 1989’s Any Which Way…Freedom was quite as radically revolutionary as Mystery, Mutabaruka was quickly establishing himself as both a literary and musical giant, both in Jamaica and abroad. His Reggae Sunsplash appearances in 1987 and 1988 were highly anticipated, and did not disappoint. And while Mutabaruka continued to produce or co-produce his albums, he also occasionally cut singles for other producers, including the hard-hitting “Great Kings of Africa” for Gussie Clarke, which paired him with Dennis Brown. The Blakk Wi Blak…K…K album appeared in 1991, overseen jointly by the poet and Earl “Chinna” Smith, and featured a follow-up to “Kings,” “Great Queens of Afrika,” with guest vocalists Sharon Forrester and Ini Kamoze. It was a stellar album filled with tough talk, including the scathing “Ecology Poem” and the equally biting “People’s Court.” That latter number was followed up on Mutabaruka’s equally excellent album, Melanin Man, which also boasted the stunning “Garvey.” That arrived in 1994, by which time the poet had performed at three more Reggae Sunsplash festivals in 1991, 1993, and 1994; he’d return in both 1995 and 1996. 1994 also saw the launch of Mutabaruka’s own Jamaican radio show on the IRIE-FM station. It was wildly popular, but ironically enough that station banned his song “People’s Court from the airwaves. Two years later, the poet scored a pair of Jamaican hits, both cut for the Exterminator label. “Wise Up” paired Mutabaruka with DJ Sugar Minott, while “Psalms 24” saw him in collaboration with the deeply religious DJ Luciano. 1996 also brought two albums in its wake, Muta in Dub and Gathering of the Spirits, the latter a spectacular recreation of the roots era, boasting a host of roots stars from the Mighty Diamonds, Sly & Robbie, Culture, and Marcia Griffiths amongst them. That same year, Mutabaruka toured Ethiopia with Tony Rebel, Yasus Afari, and Uton Green. ~ Jo-Ann Greene, Rovi
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