All Day (Glastonbury 2015) w/ JA/TDOT link

In 2006 I co-produced and wrote extensive liner notes for a CD and vinyl reissue of Noel Ellis' s/t 1983 debut LP from Jerry Brown's Malton, Ontario-based Summer Records (re-released via Light In The Attic Records as part of the six-album Jamaica-Toronto series). "Dance with Me" was recently sampled on Kanye West's "All Day." West, an American cultural heavyweight has come under fire in Toronto over the last week for his upcoming performance at the Pan Am Games. Any journalists out there wanna tie this Jamaican-Canadian link in to the story? Please spread the word to anyone who may be interested and peep the end of Kanye's Glastonbury 2015 performance above for a taste of the mighty "Dance with Me" in action!!!

*MOR here!@#$%!!! PEACE

groovy spirit

canada day

i've spent a lot of time digging up and championing unsung canadian music history. w/ the help of US-based record label light in the attic records (taste the iron-y?), we've been able to legitimately re-release some of our nation's most unique and previously undocumented sound heritage. the six-album jamaica-toronto series and doug randle's songs for the new industrial state are just the beginning... w/ two current extensive CDN reissue projects on the go (*more details soon), i am proud to say we'll be pushing even further into the vortex... these upcoming releases will reach deep into my record collection and showcase the long hours spent on the road from coast-to-coast looking for near-extinct vinyl artifacts, connecting w/ good people, learning the stories behind the records, presenting sound+vision w/ the respect it deserves, and sharing the treasure w/ open-minded music lovers world-wide in a total celebration our culture...

the cancon cannon (the guess who, anne murray, bryan adams, etc...) is already well established, it's minutiae preserved for future generations. let's take the time to document the lesser known pioneers of canadian music, whose efforts, equally important, often lay dormat in the basements, attics, and minds of this country. w/ much of today's music a reference to the past (and eternally preserved via an endless wave of electronic photos, sound files, etc...), it is very important that we save our fragile and vanishing pre-digital musical history now, before it's lost to the sands of time... so that when future generations of music lovers look back to this crucial and formative era, that they know the true trajectory of our cultural lineage...

so here's to the canadian music makers known and unknown, to our rich fabric of music and art, and that we'll be enjoying it for many years to come...

love,
sipreano