Linton Kwesi Johnson, a Jamaican from London, will played on November the 8th at the Cabaret Sauvage (Paris) his "dub poetry", one style he created himself : free words, radical, militant, on hypnotic bass background.Usually called "LKJ", Linton Kwesi Johnson, will be accompagnied by the Denis Bovell Dub Band, a very nice band of this kind of instrumental dub.
"LKJ",
was born in 1952 in Jamaica and migrated to England at the age of 6.
Towards the end of the 70's, he decided to put his poems on music in
the same way of Jamaican's Sound System DJ's. But
differently with them, this militant of the black cause in England
don't sing. He delivers on a rythmic style in the manner of slammers with revolutionnary range lyrics : by creating "Dub Poetry" he's considered as one of the first slammer.
His
Three first albums, "Dread, Beat An Blood" (1978), "Forces of Victory" (1979) and especially "Bass
Culture" (1980) became classics, published on the label "Island", specialist of reggae diffusion who lived his golden age, received
with a great success. LKJ
never left the londonian musical scene, continues his writing activity and is also journalist and press chronicler. Its last
albums were produced by himself on his label LKJ Records created in
1981.
People come to discover this figure in suit, goatee, round glasses and hat who claims with a deeped posed voice and conviction his urban poetry on bottom of jazzy-dub music. Have fun Paris !
Louis CAILLIAU
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