Okay, here’s my recent discovery-- Vendredi sur Mer, i.e. Charline Mignot from Romandy, Schweiz: [NSFW] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhqUMFj51X0

And another one, crushing the down-low chill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA2QHIrBgSs

EDIT: honestly, I reacted poorly to the initial downvotes, and I apologise for that. I guess a good chunk of people were turned off by Mignot’s first video. Welp, it happens, altho assuming this is primarily a Euro-based audience, I find that a bit weird.

Which perhaps suggests that I’m wrong, and that this is more of an American Christian audience than I’d suspected… or something like that?

    • JohnnyEnzymeOPMEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Haha, that reggae-Ren mashup was pretty genius in… song two, I think it was.

      Reggae / soca / calypso is some happy music for me. =)

        • JohnnyEnzymeOPMEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Oh gosh, those are such great songs. <3

          Altho I’ll be honest-- I didn’t really catch their meanings very well, but it’s pure love over the music right here.

          • NacktmullMEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            You certainly have a good taste in music, Mr. Enzyme. Those two songs are considered the best Roots Reggae songs ever recorded by many connoisseurs of the genre.

            Satta Massa Gana is Amharic (an Ethiopian-Semitic language) for “Give thanks and praise”. The song, which was partly inspired by Carlton & The Shoes - Happy Land, is a deeply spiritual Rastafarian anthem, that is even used in religious services by certain Rastafarian tribes. It is the title song of the album Satta Massa Gana by The Abyssinians, which I wholeheartedly recommend. The riddim/instrumental of the song spawned a huge number of versions and as common in Reggae, was covered by different vocalists many times. You can check out a bunch of those here.

            Satta Massa Gana lyrics

            Row Fisherman Row, from the album Heart of the Congos, was recorded and mixed by my favorite producer of all times Lee “Scratch” Perry, bringing together some of the finest musicians and singers of the era, in his Black Ark Studio, at the peak of his artistic career. The way he arranged Cedric Myton’s falsetto and Roy “Ashanti” Johnson’s tenor is what makes this album so unique. Backing vocals by Gregory Isaacs and members of the Meditations and the Heptones -all artists that would usually not sing backing vocals but were celebrated stars of the genre themselves- perfected the outstanding vocal dynamics. The song is about hard working Rasta fishermen, rowing out to sea to catch fish, to feed their children and the people at home.

            Row Fisherman Row lyrics

            • JohnnyEnzymeOPMEnglish
              2·
              8 months ago

              Damn, thank you so much, professeur Nacktmull!
              TBH, I’ve never really delved in to roots reggae, so this is a nice little opportunity for me to learn about something I already loved.

              Satta Massa Gana is Amharic (an Ethiopian-Semitic language)

              Just free-associating here, but I recall the early Christian bible being written in… Aramaic? Could “Amharic” be an offshoot of sorts?

              Anyway, I’ll get listening to the Satta Massa Gana und Heart of the Congos albums, tout de suite! <3

              • NacktmullMEnglish
                2·
                8 months ago

                Just free-associating here, but I recall the early Christian bible being written in… Aramaic? Could “Amharic” be an offshoot of sorts?

                Interesting question! I never thought about it, so I gave it a quick check and it turns out you are right. Both languages not only belong to the Afroasiatic language family but also to it´s branch of the Semitic languages. The branch is divided into sub groups, with Aramaic belonging to the Central Semitic and Amharic belonging to the South Semitic sub groups, which are both part of the Western major sub group, as far as I understand it.

                Anyway, I’ll get listening to the Satta Massa Gana und Heart of the Congos albums, tout de suite! <3

                Enjoy, those albums are the Crème de la Crème!

  • JohnnyEnzymeOPMEnglish
    22·
    8 months ago

    So… did you have something to say, anonymous downvoters…?

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      You’re probably getting downvoted because your post is about music and not graphic novels

      • JohnnyEnzymeOPMEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Perhaps that, and a bit of weirdo, religious anti-gay+ stuff?

        Since this sub is Euro-themed, I carelessly thought that I’d be on firm ground with the first song, hence why I lost my cool upon the downvotes. Oh well.

        That said, we can certainly make this sub all-music, all gay-themed if it helps the downvoters out.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

        • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Lol hey man it’s your community, I won’t tell you how to run it!! I admittedly did not click the links so I didn’t know they were LGBT

          I think the other reply might be onto something with it being NSFW.

          • JohnnyEnzymeOPMEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            I think the other reply might be onto something with it being NSFW.

            Good point. So then, I’ve taken out “[NSFW]” from the title, and officially marked the post “NSFW” at the post-level, which blurs out the gal’s image and gives it a sort of ‘red-stamp.’

            (EDIT: Nah, reversed course on that. It’s really not necessary IMO. If people want to be pissy and offended over trifles like that, then let them…)

            Altho at this point?
            I’m not quite sure what the difference is between helpless kittens crying out for milk and your average American cock-robin.

      • NacktmullMEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        It might be because it´s about music and not BD but I also think that some people here have serious issues with NSFW content. Anyway, there is always the neutral option to just not upvote something, so why even downvote a fine post like this? @JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee is running this community for all of us to enjoy and he does it with a lot of effort, always posting quality BD content like no one else. In fact without him this community would not even exist. Lurkers who do nothing for the community and at the same time downvote anything that does not cater particularly to their preferences can fuck off!

          • NacktmullMEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            I know, buddy! I just meant to add my two cents.

        • JohnnyEnzymeOPMEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Thanks, Nacktmull. <3
          You make me humble, a bit proud, and a bit ashamed of myself.
          All good things, I believe.

          Folks-- as I’ve said before, I could not do this sub without a co-pilot, and I could not wish for a better friend and co-pilot than Mssr-Herr Nacktmull.

          So lucky us for having YOU, and lucky you for having US, is it not?