The Lion of Judah shall break every chain. And give I the victory again and again. Happy Birthday!
Greetings
<Happy Birthday, Lion of Judah; 30 sec.>
the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Elect of God. Everliving God. Earth’s Rightful Ruler. Light of the World. The Power of the Trinity…..Haile Selassie I – His Imperial Majesty, July 23, 1892
Early in my Smile Jamaica career (since 1988/89), I was getting crosseyed with a friend who slurred, “What’s the deal with all this I Love Jah? Are Rastas gay.”
I snapped out of my fog and could feel anger before I took Gregory Isaacs’ advice and cooled down the pace.
I calmly replied: “Jesus Loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”
Happy Birthday to the well spring of the concept I have developed of: Reggae music is the power of Rastafari gospel.
Marcus Garvey said: Look to the east for a black king shall be crowned. And lo, in 1930 Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael become his Imperial Majesty: Haile Selassie I – the Power of the Trinity. 52 sec.
Smile Jamaica celebrates that legacy with 3 hours on his 124th anniversary of his birth. 1 min.
Livicate, never deadicate
bless, robt
Very regal. And reminiscent of ………My Sumerian ancestors the Anunnaki
Set 1:
Naturalites – Picture on the Wall; Rub-a-Dubble vol. 1 (CSA) ’85: Happy Birthday Haile Selassie: July 23, 1892
Joe Gibbs & the Professionals – Snipers; All Mighty Dub Chapter 4 (Joe Gibbs) ’79: Dub Album of the Hour
UFO-ria on Smile Jamaica. Get weightless and float on
Greetings,
Smile Jamaica Presents a lesson in Astro-Theology
On (or thereabouts) the 4th of July 1947, an Alien spacecraft crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. Smile Jamaica celebrates 3 hours of Alien stylee; 1 min. 16 sec.
Roswell Daily R soecord: July 9, 1947 – no doubt they crashed, so Extra Terrestrials are real
<Two stories on the date of the Roswell crash>
True story on Roswell:
My brother in law sells high tech pipe to agricultural, research labs, salsa manufacturers. He lives in Albuquerque but travels the length of New Mexico.
One day in Roswell he asked his customer about the 1947 UFO crash. Was it real or bullflop?
His customer said: the local mortuary owner, salt of the earth rural America. Veteran. Straight shooter. The Air Force came to him and asked him to provide 3 children’s size coffins.
“If that’s what he said, that’s how it happened”
Roswell 1947 – Do not scoff!
Look to the skies! Do not scoff!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica’s Alien media consumption
Friday Nights
Ancient Aliens TV – Friday Nights on the History Channel. This explores the various connections between Earth’s history and Alien contact before there was recorded history.
<My love of Sumerian history led to UFO-ria; > 2 min 6 sec
Basically Aliens from Nibiru called Anunnaki (Those who came down from the sky) who came to Earth b/c we had the gold they needed for their ruined planet. They were essentially too lazy to mine the gold themselves so they created a race of humans to do the work. When the humans got too noisy, they were destroyed with a flood.
Click image for a better view of how Nibiru’s orbit intersects with Earth and the Sun
The 12th Planet Nibiru – 9 planets, Earth’s moon, the Sun, Nibiru. Elliptical orbit from outside the galaxy toward the Sun
Every 3600 years the orbit of Nibiru approaches earth: The Anunnaki drop their space ships to space ports in:
Sumer (lower Iraq)
Sinai (Egypt) – the pyramids are guide posts for entry
Baalbek (Syria)
Mohenjo Daro (Pakistan)
Humans mine the gold. Nibiru whips around the sun heading back out to the edge of our Universe, the ships go up and land on Nibiru for the journey home.
They will be back in 3440 AD.
2. Zecharia Sitchin
An Azerbaijani Jew who translated thousands of cuneiform texts that showed what we know from the Bible and Greek Mythology were actually much older from original source stories from Sumer.
His book series, Earth Chronicles, discusses these topics
Zecharia Sitchin – the original Astro Theologist7 volumes of Aliens on Earth. Stories from the Bible and Greek Mythology came after their Sumerian originals
What have I learned from my bingewatching and binge reading?
All those stories from the Bible and parts of stories from Greek Mythology, Iraqi A Thousand and One Nights, Hindi religious literature is all “plagiarized” from my ancestors the Sumerians (I am an Assyrian from that area on my mom’s side. Assyrians adapted from the Sumerian cosmology).
What is in the Bible or world literature that relates to Alien space travel?
On the night of July 4, 1947 on a ranch outside Roswell, New Mexico a UFO crashed. That has never really been disputed. The Air Force even released a press release later that week that, of course, that later had to be “walked back.”
Binge watching Ancient Aliens on History Channel, I asked my brother in law – who lives in Albuquerque – about Roswell. My bro in law Michael sells high tech pipe to the labs at Sandia, Intel and even salsa manufacturers. Roswell is on his beat.
He asked someone in Roswell about the crash. One of the old timers told Michael: the local coroner was instructed by the Air Force to provide 3 children’s coffins. The local coroner was total salt of the earth rural America. He would never have been involved in any sensationalized tomfoolery about UFO’s.
That’s good enough for me. So I harvested all my sci fi, alien, UFO-ria for some late night skywatching in case they come back for more.
Look to the skies! Do not scoff!
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica’s Digital Dubplate Tribute to Roswell – UFO-ria
0-30 min.
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra – Also Sprach Zaratustra (CBS) UFO-ria Digital Dubplate: Roswell crash July 1947
Klaatu – Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft; Hope (Capitol) ’77 Canadian rock
The Byrds – Mr. Spaceman (Smile Jamaica UFO-ria Rmx)
Elegants – Little Star; Destroy All Humans (Lakeshore) 50’s doowop video game techno rmx
SoKo – I Thought I Was An Alien; I Thought I was an Alien (Because) 2012 Fr. Female singer
Spiritual Rez – Anunnaki Invasion + Let’s Go Out With a Bang (Spiritual Rez) 2014 US reggae
Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride (Smile Jamaica Destroy All Humans rmx); Magic Carpet = ancient Arab space ship
Elton John – Rocket Man; Honky Chateau (Polygram) ‘72***30 min.
To Medieval Arabs – flying carpet would be their description of a space craft. makes sensi to me!
30 – 60 min.
David Bowie – Starman; Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (EMI) ‘72
Langley Schools Music Project – Space Oddity; Starman (Uncut) David Bowie cover by schoolkids
Tena Stelin – Flying Chariots; 7” (Mascot) 2003: singing about all the aliens from the Bible)
In the immortal words of Prince Far I – the humble calf, suckles the most milk
Greetings,
During the last year of Reagan. Who funded the Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives thru the Student Loan Program.
KRCL was looking for graveyard shows. I was picked for late Sunday/early Monday AM. The show? 3 o’clock Roadblock – 3 hours of Reggae and World sounds at 3am during the coldest winter in 40 years in Salt Lake City.
<Smile Jamaica bio; 37 sec.>
You gots to pay your dues to get the prime time. I did graveyard for a year and decided that was enough. Then my bredrin, Rutabaga Reese, who was hosting Smile Jamaica was looking to transition out. So I sat in with him from Oct. ’89 til Summer of ’90 when he “retired”. I took over the chair, planted my flag and 28 years later it’s Saturday afternoon Roots Reggae ‘n’ Dub fix
<Early morning before prime time – gotta pay your dues; 23 sec.>
So it was the tail end of June, June 25th probably that I flicked the switch and started the Ark-Ive. Celebrate that legacy with all vinyl
No digital for I ‘n’ I
bless, robt
28 Years of Reggae Radio: Smile Jamaica June 25, 2016 Playlist; 1 min 8 sec.
Set 1 – All Vinyl 28 Years
Jimmy Riley – Summertime; 12” (DEB) ’76 cover of Porgy & Bess classic
King Tubby – Dub From the Roots; Dub From the Roots (Attack) ’74 dub album of the hour
Papa Kojie & Blue Riddim – Nancy Reagan Re-Election Remix (Ora International) ’85 St. Louis
<Nancy & Ron a gwan a Russia; 23 sec.>
Edi Fitzroy – Youthman Penitentiary; Dreadlocks Party (Alligator) ’82 Chicago blues label
Michael Smith – Picture No Pictures; Mi Cyaan Believe It (Mango) ’82 LKJ produced dub poet
Tapper Zukie – Cally Dolly; I Man Ah Warrior (mer) ’77 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
Bloodfire Posse – Get Flat; Are You Ready (CBS) ’86 UK, Jamaican dance, “get flat while bullets fly overhead”
Robert Mapplethorpe. 4 down, 46 to go!
Set 2: Roots Dawta vinyl
Casselberry & DuPree’ – Comin’ in From the Cold; City Down (Icebergg) ’86 Milwaukee
Main Attractions – Jam Up, Jam Down; Roots, Rock, Reggae (Creole) ’78 Fr.
Singers & Players feat. Sister B – Holy Scripture; Vacuum Pumping (ON U Sound) ’88 UK Adrian Sherwood
Aisha – Don’t Tire; Daughters of Zion (Twinkle) ’93 UK
Set 3:
Prince Far I – Natty Champion; Jamaican Heroes (Trojan) ’80 UK: boxing Babylon loses to Natty Dread
Morwells – Reggae Party; Wiser Dread (Nighthawk) ’82 St. Louis
Sister Carol – Show Business; Liberation For Africans (Serious Gold) ’83 NY
Musical Youth – Pass the Dutchie (Special Dub Mix); ’83 12” EP
Took last Saturday off on a cratedigging assignment. In order to keep fresh roots on my Mixcloud stream, I cooked up 3 hours of Mutant Dubwize in my Secret Dubratory.
I call these off-air Ark-I(ves: Digital Dubplates since they are online only.
Bass in yer Facd!
bless, robt
Bass the Final Frontier on the Starship Dubwise
Digital Dubplate – Mutant Dub Mashdown (June 2016) Playlist:
0-30 hr.
Alpha & Omega – King and Queen; King and Queen (A & O) ’89 UK trance dub w/ female vox: 3 Hours of Mutant Dub
Thievery Corporation – Sound the Alarm; It Takes a Thief (ESL) 2010 Best Of: DC dubbers
The Gorillaz – Ghost Train; G-Sides (EMI) 2002
Future Pigeon – Yuppy Conqueror; Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (Record Collect) 2006 So Cal
Samia Farah – Le Monde; Many Moods of Samia Farah (SAM) 2008 Tunisian-French singer
Cratediggers weekend! Enjoy last Week’s show. Nuff vinyl in all styles and fashion. Wailers Family Tree. Mutant Dub. Best of Smile Jamaica – Year 1 (1989-90.
bless, robt
Smile Jamaica Ark-Ives: Annotated Playlist – May 21, 2016; 68 sec.
Set 1:
Sidney Jackson – Hit Me With Music; Hit Me With Music (Trojan) ’74 UK vinyl
Dub Specialist – Sitting With Stupid; Juck’s Incorporated (Studio One) ’76 JA vinyl: Dub Album of the Hour
Kingman + Jonah feat. Claudious Linton – So Wrapped Up; Sign Time (Sun King) 2008
Zema – Praise B4 Battle; Look at the Heart (Melchizedek) ’99 So Cal female singer
10 Ft. Ganja Plant feat. Sylford Walker – Hard Times; Shake Up the Place (ROIR) 2011 Upstate NY
Revolutionaries – PLA; Hitbound Revolutionary Sound of Channel One (Heartbeat) ’76 dub. People’s Liberation Army (Communist China)
<Tributes to 70’s revolutionary movements – The Revolutionaries (Sly & Robbie); 22 sec.>
Tapper Zukie – Chalice to Chalice; MPLA (Virgin Front Line) ’78 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
<Jamaican saying: I came to drink milk, not count cow; 14 sec.>
Aquizm & Mad Professor – Kunta Kinte; 10” (Ariwa) 2008 UK instrumental over Creole’s “Beware”
<Alex Haley’s Roots = Kunta Kinte; 20 sec.>
Kunta Kinte = Alex Haley’s Roots
Set 2: Wailers Family Tree
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Jah Live; Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) ’76: single livicated to HIM
<HIM overthrown by Ethiopian Communists – Jah Live; 55 sec.>
Heading into Spring on Smile Jamaica with 2 interivews: Easy Star All Stars and Dub Side of the Moon:
My old spar Grizzlite was in town lamenting the lack of Roots Reggae in Florida. Strictly dancehall in Palm Beach County. He was homesick for some home cooked Roots
Grizzlite my Reggae apprentice checking in
So enjoy the Jah-pril 30, 2016 Smile Jamaica Ark-Ive
bless, robt
❤ hour high-lights>
Set 1:
The Viceroys – Chucky; Hit Me With Music (Trojan) ’74 UK best of vinyl
The Revolutionaries – Dub Over Dub (Heartbeat) Dub Album of the Hour
Silvertones – When Knotty Came; Clocktower Classics vol. 1 (Clocktower/Abraham)
<Reggae History Lesson: Clocktower label; 12 sec.>
Jimmy Cliff – Sitting in Limbo; Muscle Shoals Soundtrack (Republic) recorded in Alabama studio
<Muscle Shoals, Alabama; 21 sec.>
Peter Broggs – Rastman Chant Niabingha; Never Forget Jah (Nocturne) ’85 Best of nyah drums
<Niyabinghi = Death to Black & White Oppressors; 18 sec.>
Sister Carol – Herbal Is Natural; Live (Catapult) 2001 live 4:20 Cannabis Service Announcement
<Sister Carol’s pharmacopia; 12 sec.>
Augustus Pablo – Eastman Sound; 12” (Rockers International) melodica instrumental
Set 2:
Easy Star All-Stars feat. Dr. Israel – Brain Damage; Dub Side of the Moon (Easy Star) 2003 Pink Floyd dubwise
<Dub Side of the Moon; 20 sec.>
Black Uhuru – Puff She Puff; Red (Mango) ’81 herbtune
Aisha – Gunman; True Roots (Ariwa) ’94 Mad Professor prod’n
Gregory Isaacs – Night Nurse; 12” (Island) ‘82
Set 3: Wailers Family Tree
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Johnny Was (Unreleased Album Mix); Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong) ’76: Wailers Family Tree Set
Bunny Wailer – Rock ‘n’ Groove; Retrospective (Shanachie) best of
Big Youth – Get Up Stand Up; Jah Love (Music Club) Bob Marley cover set
Peter Tosh – In My Song; No Nuclear War (EMI America) ‘87
Set 4:
Easy Star All-Stars feat. Sluggy Ranks – Speak to Me + Breathe in the Air; Dub Side of the Moon (Easy Star) 2003: interview
Laurel Aitken – Rise & Fall; Rise & Fall (Doctor Bird/Unicorn) ’69 ska
That time of year. Tax payment to Uncle Obama out of the way now is the time to celebrate with 420 Cannabliss in the style and fashion you have come to expect for more than 2 decades on Smile Jamaica.
The past two weeks have been devoted to fund drives at KRCL. (Many thanks if you made a pledge and got a T shirt)
I didn’t put up any live streams during Radiothon, so instead I hunkered down in my Secret Dubratory and harvested (pun intended) 4 hours. 20 minutes. 00 seconds of Spliff Tales.
Complete with herbal soundbytes, stoner movie clips and other fun stunn.
Best of Roots, Modern Roots and Mutant Dub inna Seven Leaf Stylee. So enjoy. Celebrate early, often yet discreetly and responsibly.
And until Pres. Sanders legalizes Cannabis with his first Executive Order of 2017, as I say…..
4 down, 46 to go!
Pres. Sanders will legalize it
bless, robt
Smile Jamaiaca Ark-Ives Digital Dubplate: 4 hours and 20 min. for 420 Playlist
0-30 min.
Black Slate – Legalise Collie Herb; Amigo (Ensign) ’80 UK
Jacob Miller & Ray-I – All I Want For Ismas; Natty Christmas (RAS) ’78 Xmas herb
10 Foot Ganja Plant – Walkey Walk Tall; Hillside Airstrip (ROIR) 2001 Upstate NY
Sister Carol – Herbal Is Natural; Direct Hit! (Catapult) 2001: Live run down of herbal medicinal bennies
Thievery Corporation – .38.45; Sounds From the Thievery Hi-Fi (ESL) ’96 mutant dub DC
Sly & the Revolutionaries feat. Jah Thomas – Rizla; Black Ash Dub (Trojan) ’80 dub: Rizla rolling papers
The Equators – Feelin’ High; Hot (Stiff) ’81 UK ska
30-60 min.
Zion Tribe – Herbissimo; Barre Chords (Zion Tribe) ’97 SLC
Capital Letters – Vinyard; Vinyard (Greensleeves) ’82 UK youth group
Ijahman Levi – Moulding & Version; Are We a Warrior (Jahmani) ‘78
Daweh Congo – Herb Tree; Human Rights & Justice (Roots & Culture) 2000
60-90 min.
Rita Marley – One Draw; Big Blunts vol. 1 (Tommy Boy) 12” mix
Bob Marley & the Wailers – African Herbsman; African Herbsman (Trojan) ’73 Lee “Scratch” Perry prod’n
Ken Boothe & the Iranian Students – Peace Time; Jack Ruby Hi Fi (Auralux) ’79
<Producer Jack Ruby – discovered Burning Spear; 8 sec.>
Sound Dimension & Ernest Wilson – Why Oh Why Version ; Version Dread – 19 Dub Hits From Studio One (Studio One/Heartbeat) Dub Album of the Hour
<Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One labe; 28 sec.l>
Reggae producer Jack Ruby
Set 4:
Peter Tosh – Fight Apartheid; No Nuclear War (EMI America) ‘87
<Tosh Murdered just as I discovered Reggae, Fall ’87>
<Reggae History Lesson: Apartheid and South Africa; 17 sec.>
Ranking Roger & Blue Riddim Band – America and Russia/Selective Service System + Nancy Goes to Russia (ORA International) ’83 St. Louis – Nancy Reagan tune
<Nancy loves fashion but Ron loves money; 24 sec.>
RIP Nancy Reagan
Set 5: Vinyl is Vital
Cimarons – Mull of Kintyre; Reggaebility (MPL) ’82 Paul McCartney cover
<Cimarons love McCartney; 19 sec.>
Niney – My Spliff; Nuclear Jammin’ (Voiceprint) Chicago ’86 herbtune
Jah Thomas – Love and Happiness; Stop Yu Loafin’ (Greensleeves) ’78 UK over Leroy Smart’s cover of Waiting in Vain
Louise Bennett – Funny Names; Yes M’Dear Live! (Island) ‘83
Jimmy Shondell – Snake in the Grass; Hit Me With Music (Trojan) ’73 UK
Busted in Jah-pon: Paul McCartney and the Seven Leaf
Set 6:
Aisha – Someday; There is More to Life (Ariwa) 2005
Capital Letters – Do We Really Need a Government?; Bread and Water (Greensleeves) ’80 7” EP
Barry Brown – Pass Up the Chalice; Rich Man Poor Man (Moll-Selekta) herbtune
Errol Dunkley & Errol Bellot – Live Right + Everything Is Possible; 10” (Reality Shock) 2011
Tassili Players – Interstellar Overdub; Outer Space (Universal Egg) ’96 Mutant Dub Album of the Hour
<Tassili Algeria – Ancient Aliens; 28 sec.>
Ancient Aliens in Tassili Algeria caves
Set 7:
John Brown’s Body – Plantation; Kings and Queens (Esy Star) Upstate NY
Backbeat Soundsystem – Burnin’ Up; Together Not Apart (Easy Star) 2014 Cornwall, England
Rebelution – Fade Away; Count Me In (Easy Star) 2014 Santa Barbara
<Easy Star Records>
Set 8: Mutant Dub UFO-ria
<UFOria>
Dubadelic – Thuds Like Scuds; Bass Invaders (WordSound) ’98: UFOria set – Mutant Dub
African Head Charge & Professor – Stretch; Brother of Reality (ON U Sound) ’98 UK
So what do I do to soak up the down time? I have been following the Democratic Primary race: Foreman vs. Ali, Jordan vs. Magic, Hillary vs. Bernie.
I’m not voting for either of them. I’m a Jill Steiniac. but I love how competitive it has gotten. Odds on favorite, Hillary, trying to stave off an outsider’s populist counter. In 2008 it was Pres. Peace Prize. Now it’s a 74 year old Jewish Socialist.
Hillary has the elites. Bernie has the 99ers. So out on the Youtube some enterprising media person promoted his candidacy via an awesome mashup of Ben Harper’s Burn one Down synced to Bernie’s “finger in the air, like he just don’t care!” mannerisms
Wave your finger in the air like you just don’t care!
The Harper tune is a nyabinghi ballad with acoustic guitar devoted to the Seven Leaf. As Bern One Down this clip matches the drum chop-chop to Bernie’s finger gestures.
You can’t endorse a candidate on non-commercial Radio, but I thought people would get a kick out of it.
<Bern one Down! 1 min 12 sec.>
Give thanks for all the listens, forwards, reposts and favorites on the Smile Jamaica Mixcloud page. Together we have grown the Mixcloud weekly SJ listens from about 25 three years ago to over 100 now. Forward ever backwards never!
You help me get in the charts of Roots Reggae, Vinyl, Dub and Reggae. Give thankx!
Ancient Astronauts feat. Akua Naru – Last Night; Into Bass and Time (ESL) 2011 Germ. w/ female vox
Thievery Corporation – Stargazer; Culture of Fear (ESL) 2012
Ancient Astronauts – From the Sky; We Are to Answer (ESL) 2009 Germ.
<Ancient Aliens Season 8 Recap; 56 sec.>
Smile Jamaica is hosted by Robert Nelson on 90.9 FM KRCL in Salt Lake City, Utah (Saturdays, 4-7 p.m. MT). Ark-ives available weekly here at the Smile Jamaica blog.
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