Mutabaruka abraham

Photo by Mutabaruka Abraham on January 16, 2021.
There was Emperors is Ethiopia before Abraham, before Adam and Eve. So we talking now about the link with our past and our now.
Abraham.

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PART III: MORE TIME . . .

Tell me a little bit more about . . .you're talking about going to Africa, what trips have you made to Africa and how has that [affected your views]?

Is years we been talking about Africa. We write about Africa. Talk to people about Africa, but we have never been to Africa until recently. Well, not recently, 1982 was the first trip we go -- went to Nigeria. [When] we went to Ethiopia, that I think changed my whole concept of nuff ting even within Rasta -- just going there.

Did you go on that 82 trip, also to Ethiopia?

No, I went to Ethiopia two years ago. That trip to me revolutionize my whole thinking. It is almost like Malcolm X going to Mecca. Come back and say, bwai, him whole concept of Muslim change. Well to me, that is what that trip do to me. Going to Ethiopia, my whole concept of Rastafari and me attitude towards certain concepts change totally.

Give me an example of where you were and where you are after.

For instance, I could a see clearly how Rome influence my belief, even though I was a Rasta. Because there is a lot of Roma

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Back to the concept of live production and that whole sound. Somebody attributed you and your radio show to really turning the consciousness in the music. After the time that Garnett Silk passed away and Luciano started to come along, not only did that machine sound . . . even though they were still using machine production, started to fade out of the music. And I feel like [some] of the stuff the comes out of Jamaica [now], even though it's programmed, has a more human touch to it. Do you perceive that or is that a bunch of . . . Like some of Fatis' rhythms?

Well, the only live thing I see happening is with the musicians who used to record for years, but the tunes that are hitting is machine -- the hit songs, the Beenie Man songs, and dis and dat, Scare Dem Crew songs is machine. I feel that it is going to go back. It's going to return to the live musicians. I feel that way.

Is that feasible, economically?

Yea mon, yea mon, it's feasible of course. It's the best thing that can be done to the mu