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Dub poetry from Desmond FAADA Johnson

Desmond Faada Johnson dub poetry from Jamaica

Desmond FAADA Johnson was born in Kingston Jamaica in 1962. In 1984 Desmond FAADA Johnson published his first collection of poems DEADLY ENDING SEASON (Akira Press Publications) and completed a Dub Poetry Album - Pucko Music in 2003. FAADA Johnson has taught in many schools, colleges, universities, community groups, and worked as Ethnic Advisor to Westminster Council, promoting African consciousness and African Caribbean Literature, Music and Culture. Pucko Poetry is his first full length collection for 19 years.

PUCKO - Peoples United Cause for Knowledge and Overstanding - is a moment in time, a session, a recording and a performance, with the RuffCutt Band. With Anthony "Dashi" Thomas, as the Griot, Kenton "Fish" Brown as the Dub Master, Carlton "Bubblers" Oglivie as the Musical Professor, Tony "Crucial" Phillips as the Vibes Master and FAADA as the Poet. Influenced by popular Reggae and Dancehall anthems, PUCKO MUSIC seeks to interpret the music of poetry, through the potent sounds of Reggae Music. Pucko poetry. Dub from Jamaica. Desmond Faada Johnson published by Akira Press The lyrics are taken from FAADA's Deadly Ending Season (1984) and Pucko Poetry (2005) Akira Press Publications Limited. They are performed with a voice amplified with the guttural sounds of the Griots, "speaking from a standpoint of age 'perience", focusing on history, contemporary platitudes that marginalized a people, echoing the call for "betterment, peace and love", warning of the danger if a "tradition slip into oblivion", joining the chorus of voices chanting down Babylon, seeing hope and fortitude, in a world of Experiences.

FAADA Seh: "With this Album PUCKO MUSIC, I will take you through my world, inhabited with voices, images, sound and music. My writing is a compulsion. A fight with forces and a fight against forces to produce language and poetry that relish in the depth and eternal soul of the African. In my world, music is dominant. It is the guttural chants of the Drums, passion and the potent sounds of the mighty singers wailing to vibes of love, struggle, courage and righteousness. PUCKO MUSIC was conceived in the vestibule of a peoples yearning for sound and power, empowering them beyond politics and the folly of Post Colonial life, with its distress and servitude lifestyles."

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