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Tuesday 17 March 2015

Black Star Liner


On the recently featured Mojo Rebel Music CD there is a track by Tapper Zukie extolling the virtues of the MPLA - the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola or in the Portuguese Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola 
A reference in the song is made to Black Star Liner.
My subsequent research tells me this was the name of a shipping line set up by Marcus Garvey to transport goods and ultimately African Americans throughout the African Global economy

Black Star Liner is also the name of a band from Leeds who played Asian influenced dance music and dub reggae.
Recently I picked up a cheap copy of one of their singles Rock Freak from 1997. The title track is a load of pants but the other songs on the single are not too bad



7 comments:

  1. 'Man Ah Warrior' and 'MPLA' are fantastic LP's and the ones that followed are none too shabby either. A terrific tune to start the day.

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  2. Low BMW has got something about it that I like. And Inder Automatica seems to have some approving head-shaking going on from my partner. Little black dog remains totally unmoved by both.

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  3. Check out the song by Reggae Regular(s) called Black Star Liner, a full 9+ minutes of 70s reggae goodness

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  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B5mi73HP6Q

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