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Jah Levi Newsletter
Greetings and love to my beloved Family!
I wanted to write this newsletter to keep you all updated on my latest projects, which I?m very excited to tell you all about. I just finished and released my new album, So Jah Say, and have another one on the way, which is called Praise Him, scheduled to be released February 2006. These two albums are a culmination of my musical career up until this point. A lot of the songs you know and love that I play live are on these two new albums, now professionally mixed and recorded, along with some brand new creations. Featuring so many great artists, like David Grisman, Tina Malia, Sasha Butterfly, Shimshai, Abba Yahudah, Prezident Brown, and Rocker T, and a whole spectrum of musicians, we?ve all come together to make an epic collection of music. The album So Jah Say, which is currently available at CDBaby and on my website www.jahlevi.com/ can either be purchased alone or along with a DVD of a 3 hour live concert that I played in November 2004 in San Francisco at Caf? Cocomo. This concert features an 18 piece band ? an all-star cast which is a lot of fun to watch. I am also working on a DVD that is all about my music and is a deeper look into who is Jah Levi featuring many people who?ve known me and played with me over the years.
I?ve been playing with the legendary Leroy ?Horsemouth? Wallace, drummer for Burning Spear and star of the movie ?Rockers.? I?ve recorded over a hundred new songs with Horsemouth on drums and he came with us on a CD release tour of the west coast this summer, a highlight of which was the Seattle Hempfest, the largest outdoor music festival on the west coast, where I got a headlining spot, performing for a crowd of 100,000 people with an all-star band, featuring Ronnie ?Stepper? McQueen on bass, founder of and bass player for Steel Pulse.
If you haven?t seen my new website, check out www.jahlevi.com/ There are several songs you can listen to on it, and it has beautiful photos, my biography, links, etc., and ways to purchase my new album.
At this moment I am currently setting up distribution and tour dates with my new manager and comrade Andre Jonson, of Dreamcatcher Productions. He is a wonderful friend and ally and I am grateful and enthusiastic to have him aboard for this next phase of my career. We?re booking a tour of the Hawaiian Islands in February. I hope to see you all there in the beautiful sunshine. I?ve also retained Nancy Lewis of Entertainment Works as publicist and PR person. She has been my publicist for the last ten years and is helping me to promote my new album and DVD.
Lately I?ve also been working in the studio on my own new music as well as producing several other artists, such as Manaka, Har-I, Abba Yahudah and Rocker T. It has been a wonderful experience helping to create and promote the musical visions of these up and coming artists. They are all my good friends and are doing great work. Stay tuned for all the Irie music and video coming your way from Theocratic Records International, the record label and production company that I started 25 years ago.
The new music that I?m working on now is a fusion of eclectic, ethnic, and world music, and simply has my own flavor that cannot be put into a genre, but I call it world fusion, bringing together elements of diverse cultures, traditional acoustic instruments, and the sounds of nature in a soul-stirring soundscape of harmonic and melodic intention. This album features Vir of Hamsa Lila on sintir, Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace on drums, Dilshad Hussein on violin, and a host of other amazing artists with their unique sounds. This album is scheduled for release in Spring of 2006.
In addition, my very first album, called Selassie-I Vibration has been totally remixed and re-mastered for re-release on the Theocratic Record Label. The album includes bonus tracks that are unique dub mixes of some of Jah Levi?s classic songs. Check it out on www.cdbaby.com/ or on my website. In fact, my entire catalog is available both on www.cdbaby.com/ and my website, as well as digital download, through many music download services such as Apple I-Tunes music store, Musicmatch, Bitmonk, MP3tunes, MusicNow, MusicNet, MSNMusic, SonyConnect, and Wrapfactory.
Thank you for your love and support over the years and look forward to many more years of concerts, CDs and videos from Jah Levi and the Higher Reasoning, and the Theocratic Records Massive.
One Perfect Love in the Highest Spirit of Jah Rastafari.
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posted 11/06/05
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