Jorge López, aka Ragnampacer, aka Ragna, recalls with frankness how he discovered reggae. La Caja de Ahoros y Pensiones de Barcelona, today La Caixa, gave its customers discs and cassettes with the successes of the year, which Arriola published. ‘Is This Love’ performed by Bob Marley and The Wailers at 1978’s Delivery, He says, “I saw Casvella with the cassette and said to myself: ‘Uncle, listen to this, that’s Springs. ‘” Casavella is Francisco Casavella, the future author of ‘El Dia del Watusi’. That “conceived moment” indirectly followed don chufo, disco which played “pretty good black music” and which had a “habit” of pinching reggae from ocho to ocho and the media. “El equipo era cuadrafónico y sonaba que no vis”.
don chufo had a revolving dance floor Since then Ragna and company have tried not to lose sight of the details of what happened in the ‘disc-jockey’ cabin. “ibas turning and when you saw a disc from the palm island (the record label founded by Chris Blackwell, fundamental in the spread of Jamaican music) At Galette, you knew a reggae theme was coming”, he explains. was in dimensions.
fiber cut
Reggae was live in Spain, peaking at Marley’s performance at the Monumental Bullring in Barcelona on 30 June 1980. Artist Murió followed less than a year later and Con el Murió el Reggae en España became a popular influence., Marley was an extreme and false case of the alpha and omega power of a musical genre. Ragna and other believers began the classic life in the catacombs of Spanish lovers for secret music in the 80s: buying records and fans by mail abroad, traveling to Andorra or the French Basque Country in search of the same material, the press discovering British music. , in the case of Ragna ‘New Musical Express’, which in a few weeks was found in the kiosks of La Rambla and other numbers.
Some of these believers became reggae evangelists, gradually making contact with them in the late 90s, when the situation was not so hostile, with Texterly Brown commenting to Ragna that it would be interesting to write a history of reggae. Coordinating with other and texts of different authors (El Propio Ragna, Carlos Monti, Doctor Dekker and Lord Dick, Iñaki Yaritu, Luis Lapuente…), the encyclopedia was listed in 2002. To begin with, for its vastness, ‘La Isla del Tesoro’, frozen for 21 years for various reasons. The Historia de la Musica Jamaican del Siglo XX’ (Calligrama) now sees the light practically as it is.
this was preinternet
¿I felt like a work from the pre-internet era (or case) where “more or less every line had to get up to consult a disc”, In a time of abundance of information and music, Ragna thinks you are, and lands because you want to think and because “you can’t live in a cajon” works so much.
“Whatever is found on the internet is very fragmented and this book compiles them all”, he begins to argue. Furthermore, he adds, “The richness of Jamaican music, with its thousands of subgenres, is inexorable, as is its influence on popular music across the planet; however, there isn’t always one. For example, hip hop cannot be understood without reggae., The first to introduce ajna based on music were the Jamaican ‘deejays’. It’s no coincidence that DJ Kool Herc, whose 50th anniversary celebration was held in the Bronx these days to mark the birth of hip hop, is a Jamaican immigrant.
mass production
Jamaican music production, at any rate, is huge for an island that does not reach three million inhabitants, moreover poor. Is there an explanation for ‘La Isla del Tesoro’, the title also alluding to Treasure Isle, a pioneering record label founded by Duke Reed? “I don’t have it. Maybe it was as simple as people who sing of their evils wonder what you sang or killed you. Even if you did sing they thought you were rich and they It is clear that a large percentage of the population as a producer, singer, composer, agent, sound system operator, radio DJ… and on black earth, Jamaican music in one form or another Connected to music. It was a kind of capitalism on the fringes of capitalism,
revolutionary music
The music business was straight ‘Far West’, with guns included. Here’s another reason for weight to unpack the volume: The existence of the clichés of reggae as music for Buen Rollo, Poros y Playas Paradisiacas, When it’s ghetto music and thus violent, why not talk about sexist and homophobic artists. “It is clear that we remain on the surface – says Ragna-. Why is the announcement of Lois (which used the music of ‘Three Little Birds’ by Marley, a positive song)? Kaya’, Marley’s first in Spain Famous record? Algeria in opinion. Reggae was not protest music, it was revolutionary music. Marlon James’ novel ‘Brave Historia de Siete Asesinatos’ tells you very clearly: Human life has no value in Jamaica in the 1970s Was.
As a promoter of music festivals, Ragna brings to Spain the likes of Lee Perry, Skalights, Burning Spear, Luciano and a great many others. always through its European representatives. “I only go to Jamaica on business, and I don’t miss it -senala ragna-. As a visitor, I don’t talk”.
(tagstotranslate)music
