7.28.18
Aloha.
Yesterday I attended the Mayjah Rayjah music festival. All thanks to the Iration bass player's mother for getting my friend and I on the guest list.
I only started listening to "reggae" or roots music about two months or so ago and I feel like I have a very specific interest in it. As someone who loves music and previously despised reggae for my whole life, the festival was fairly uneventful. I only listen to Father Psalms Studios and their affiliates. The music festival featured some people I've never heard before and artist I recognize by name including Rebel Souljahz, Eli-Mac, and Spawnbreezie. The only reason I went is because my friends first introduced me to reggae through Iration and I think their new album has a couple songs I like so that was that.
I did not like the music besides Iration. I feel like they were phenomenal artist and were the only group that was actually a band, meaning they played all of the instruments themselves. They played a lot of dub versions or instrumentals of their songs from the new album so that was very fresh and satisfying. I also had some poi mochi for $3 that were HUGE and as a huge fan of poi mochi, that made my night so much better.
If you get the opportunity, I would highly suggest you check out Iration live and hopefully they don't play some of their not-as-great songs simply because it gets airtime on Hawai‘i radio stations.
Mahalo.
Yesterday I attended the Mayjah Rayjah music festival. All thanks to the Iration bass player's mother for getting my friend and I on the guest list.
I only started listening to "reggae" or roots music about two months or so ago and I feel like I have a very specific interest in it. As someone who loves music and previously despised reggae for my whole life, the festival was fairly uneventful. I only listen to Father Psalms Studios and their affiliates. The music festival featured some people I've never heard before and artist I recognize by name including Rebel Souljahz, Eli-Mac, and Spawnbreezie. The only reason I went is because my friends first introduced me to reggae through Iration and I think their new album has a couple songs I like so that was that.
I did not like the music besides Iration. I feel like they were phenomenal artist and were the only group that was actually a band, meaning they played all of the instruments themselves. They played a lot of dub versions or instrumentals of their songs from the new album so that was very fresh and satisfying. I also had some poi mochi for $3 that were HUGE and as a huge fan of poi mochi, that made my night so much better.
If you get the opportunity, I would highly suggest you check out Iration live and hopefully they don't play some of their not-as-great songs simply because it gets airtime on Hawai‘i radio stations.
Mahalo.
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