专辑简介

Sounds born from tin-in cups and lard buckets bands under the bottom of houses standing prideful on concrete stilts, defiant faces to the Atlantic Ocean. Love: inspiration drawn, prototype reimagined in a college classroom where a Caribbean bhai (boy) hears LKJ’s poetry stand up, drum down from sounds placed on the page, conjured/spoken words (to) create worlds on stage. This album: that kind of rag(g)a music. Lets you party with a poet, tongue-drumming to foundation dancehall chunes of Mark Silva’s Garifuna drums. This love album brings that spiritual-soulful, “Smooth Operator” R&B vibes of Briaan L. Barron to re-memory slave rebellions and urban love ballads that make you want to write words just in case you find your heart waitin at a bus stop, skippin in new rhythms exceedin all Love Supremes. These reggae-poems: Churchical chants of memories soulin to Jules Belmont’s guitar strings funk, that Steeled Pulse, tendering rhythms, unwrappin love songs unsung in orange carry you to the soft warm of sunsets after journeys through resistance, survival, the everyday ish and that all-day agape love of Grand Mothers renamed Ninny. “What is? Love”: me, lil boy Alwin “Bones” Jones, whose calypsos have grown up with, through, because of You, someone like You, or like someone who raised You. When we ask: What is? Our raggas answer: Love Love Love Love Love… that space between two or more gathered in (y)our name.