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ISSUE #69
Dec.
'04
From the streets of Kingston,
Jamaica,
Silver Kamel Audio
brings us one of the newest,
hottest, amazing reggae artists to emerge on the scene in years. Raised
in Venice, Italy
and Paris, France, with a decade of music school in London and years of
world travel, Nemo finally settled
in Jamaica and is poised and
ready to spring his sensational, soaring, velvety-smooth, crooning
vocals and modern era,
hip-hop drenched, reggae chatting style on the global public. Anything
less than mass
appreciation would be criminal.
Sliver
Kamel Audio recording
artist Jah
Thomas discovered Nemo
chatting up on
the streets of Kingston
and invited him into the studio. With the Roots
Radics providing backing,
Cross-Breed was
laid
down with enough
“Genre Fusion” to sweep up any music impresario and
carry them to the Promised
Land. Establishing itself right from the start, “All Is In Your
Eyes” opens the CD with snap drums,
leading into solid reggae riddim tracks
that lend a generous amount of credibility to Nemo’s
vocals abilities. Crooning in classic rasta reggae style dueling with a
subtle, yet
effective background horn progression, the multiple track harmonies jog
along the vocal
path of climbing octaves, that hit such high baritones that they quake
the gut, and swarm
over our senses to elicit a beautiful feeling of Peace, Love, and
Harmony.
Effortlessly, track 1
allows us to wade deeply into the
accessible reggae culture, only to find that Nemo
is just setting us up for the Killer single of all Killer tracks
– “Blah,
Blah,
Blah” bursts forth with such powerful
hooks that there is no way to sing the
praises deserved by what should be the feel-good hit song of the year.
“Blah,
Blah, Blah”
possesses “thee”
sound that every boom
box and car stereo system from Kingston
to East LA, from NYC to London
was created to
replicate for the enjoyment of the masses. If this song isn’t
an International hit
then shame on every musical community that claims to “get
down,” because get
down it does and then some – meriting pied piper status for
the infectious groove
that reaches out to each and every set of ears and corrals them for
more sensational
musical escapades richly steeped in the traditional
subgenre’s of reggae’s roots
rasta styles.
Any traditional
Rastafarian
music collection wouldn’t be complete
without its praises and promotion of the ganja culture’s
affirmation for cooling out
and digging the peace, love, and harmony of the kiki weed. Spliffs,
Sensee, blunts, and
dozens more monikers are name checked and brought to fruition in the
unmistakable Marley
tradition through “Collie
Meditation,” “Highest Grade,”
and “Dancehall
Jamboree.” The latter is a duet with Jah
Thomas which makes use of the highly recognizable Rubadub
riddim. Brass horns
highlight the call of “Entertainment
is a form
of enjoyment,” as we are whisked onto the dance
floor for a bit of nightclubbing.
Delving further into the
CD
provides an even deeper perspective to what it
is that gives Nemo the uniqueness
that elevates
him above many of the artists trying to break out, no matter what genre
they are working
from. “Melody
For My Ladies” is the suave lover that
has the women fainting in their desire
for him. It is here where the Julio Iglesias sex appeal reaches out of
the speakers and
lures the ladies into the arms and warmth of the vocals that croon and
swoon. Based on the
Sirens of Greek mythology, we can tell that with just his voice Nemo is going to score with the ladies
over every
guy in the room. Plus, what woman can resist French - Add lyrics in
French (a sampling of
which we’ve heard, but weren’t cognizant of in
earlier cuts), and the songs
“Personne”
and “No
More Tears” cap yet another area in which
Nemo displays his
alluring artistic superiority.
Cross-Breed
by Nemo entertains us with a
well-rounded World
Reggae sound that explodes in our ears with such aplomb that the Silver Kamel Audio description of it as a
“musical Molotov cocktail”
is 100% correct and
more. After concentrating on reissuing their back catalogue of Reggae
releases from the
70s and 80s (when they were doing business out of London under the
Silver Camel Music
label) Silver Kamel Audio realized
that Nemo was the best new artist
with which to kick
start the labels reentry into new releases, and for that we are not
only extremely excited
and eternally grateful, but filled with enjoyment.
Enjoy Cross-Breed
by Nemo.
“Entertainment
is a form of
enjoyment.”
Cross-Breed
by Nemo
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