LUCIANO - LIVE SIERRA NEVADA WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL 2O12

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LUCIANO - LIVE SIERRA NEVADA WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL

Luciano performs with Ikronik at the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival in Boonville, California on June 24, 2012, closing out the festival.

****LUCIANO - LUCIANO AND FRIENDS JUGGLINS****

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****LUCIANO - LUCIANO AND FRIENDS JUGGLINS****

TRACKLIST


01 - Hills & Valleys
02 - Take Us For No Fools
03 - Pray Today
04 - 4 Ever
05 - Length Of Days
06 - Forgiveness
07 - Cup A Tea
08 - Peaceful Days
09 - Most Wanted
10 - Burn Out The Rich & Greedy
11 - Royalness
12 - Days Of Wine & Roses
13 - Neberoon
14 - Guide Over Us
15 - Oompakatan

LUCIANO - REGGAE MAX PART 2

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****REGGAE MAX PART 2****

TRACKLIST


1. It's Not Easy
2. Empress Love
3. Step Right In
4. God You See And Know
5. Visions
6. Call On Yahweh
7. Save Us Now
8. God Is Greater Than Man
9. Be Of Good Courage
10. Have Mercy
11. There's Got To Be A Change
12. Lesson Of Life
13. Come Away
14. Same Song
15. Jah Will Always See Me Through
16. Can't Blame The Youths
17. Serve Jah
18. Ulterior Motive
19. When Man On Earth
20. Medley


Product details
Audio CD (29 Nov 2004)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Collector's Edition, Limited Edition
Label: Jet Star Music Ltd

LUCIANO - REGGAE MAX

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****REGGAE MAX****

TRACKLIST


1. Neighbourhood Watch
2. Nature Boy
3. Wicked Haffe Run Wey
4. In This Together (with Louie Culture & Terror Fabulous)
5. Time Is The Master
6. Bounty Lover (with Lady G)
7. One Way Tocket
8. Chant Out
9. Back To Africa
10. Come On Over
11. Throw Out The Life Line
12. Shake It Up Tonight
13. Black Survivor
14. Raggamuffin
15. Jah Is Alive (with Charlie Chaplin)
16. Psalm 24 (with Mutabaruka)
17. Show You How
18. I Believe In Music
19. That's The Way Life Goes
20. Jah


Label Jet Star
Orig Year 1997

In keeping with Jet Star's excellent Reggae Max series, this set rounds up a bumper crop of Luciano's early hits and crucial cuts. As this is a budget compilation, the album is severely lacking in information, but does at least list the producers. Inevitably, virtually the entire set is drawn from producer Philip "Fatis" Burrell's flood of music, with only "Time Is the Master," cut for Blacka Dread, and "Shake It Up Tonight," a huge hit overseen by Freddie McGregor and Dalton Browne, offering hints at what Luciano was doing outside the Xterminator studios. Almost half the set, nine tracks in all, is drawn from Luciano's One Way Ticket album. But that doesn't mean you can forego buying that record, such a masterpiece itself, and the other six songs here are equally crucial. A few numbers are culled from other early albums, and Reggae Max also picks up such crucial singles as "Wicked Haffe Run Way" and "Psalm 24," the latter pairing the singer with Mutabaruka. The latest number is "In This Together," another combo single featuring Louie Culture and Terror Fabulous, which was scooped up for Luciano's Where There Is Life album. There's little here that most fans won't already have; the set is cheap enough to pick up for the handful of songs not on the singer's studio albums. As an introduction to the artist, this is a real winner, filled with superb songs that will hopefully prompt buyers to purchase all Luciano's early albums. They could then dispense with this set, but the investment would have been well worth it

BERES HAMMOND AND LUCIANO - NO GABBON

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****NO GABBON****
TRACKLIST


01-no_gabbon
02-no_gabbon_version


Label:XTerminator
Format:Vinyl, 7"


Country:Jamaica
Released:1995
Genre:Reggae
Style:Dancehall

No Gabbon - means...????




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Today I have been mostly enjoying Beres Hammond and Luciano - No Gabbon on Xterminator label


But what has been troubling me and despite a careful listen to the lyrics (which is about what they would do if they had the power to change society) and a quick google, I still can't work out what is a Gabbon and why Beres and Luci don't want it.


Can anyone enlighten me?


Re: No Gabbon - means...????




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Is it an analogy for venomous snakes? There is a Gabbon Viper. Would that make sense?


I wonder if the Gabbon Viper originates in Gabon and perhaps it's just a mis-spelling?

LUCIANO - MESSENGER

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****MESSENGER****

TRACKLIST


1. Messenger
2. Life
3. Mama
4. Over The Hills
5. Never Give My Pride
6. Rainy Days
7. Friend In Need
8. How Can You
9. Feel Like Moving
10. Carry Jah Load
11. Guess What's Happening





BACKED BY: Sly, Donald Dennis, Dean Fraser, Robbie Lyn


PRODUCED BY: Fatis Burrell for Xterminator
MIXED BY: Steven Stanley, Bulby, Soljie
ENGINEERED BY: Paul Daley, Robert Murphy

Product Details
Audio CD (April 14, 1997)
Original Release Date: April 30, 1997
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Xterminator


LUCIANO MESSENGER LYRICS

Jah send I as a messenger,
To teach the youth about roots and culture,
And tell the massive fi remember Jah,
That's all I a deal with Iyah, well.


Jah send I as a messenger,
To teach the youth about roots and culture,
And tell the massive fi remember Jah,
That's all I a deal with Iyah.


Man a sing bout how them mus love don,
Them forget Jah and put them woman up front,
There's a time and place for everything, woh-woh,
So them talk 'bout how them fire them gun,
And talk 'bout how them buts gatlin,
But I don't have no time to mingle in sin, woh.


Jah send I as a messenger,
To teach the youth about roots and culture,
And tell the massive fi remember Jah,
That's all I a deal with Iyah, yeah.


Jah send I as a messenger,
To teach the youth about roots and culture,
And tell the massive fi remember Jah,
That's all I a deal with Iyah.


You remember how Jah send Jonah and Elijah,
Moses and Noah, Martin Luther King and Marcus too,
Them never falter, the man them do them works and them move on,
So I nuh de ya fi look, I and I must carry on Jah works, woah.


Jah send I as a messenger,
To teach the youth about roots and culture,
And tell the massive fi remember Jah,
That's all I a deal with Iyah, woah.
Jah send I as a messenger,
To teach the youth about roots and culture,
And tell the massive fi remember Jah,
That's all I a deal with Iyah.


I and I nuh come yah fi turn wood and stone, well,
I and I come yah fi teach, so you better learn,
You better love Jah and live,
Give all the love you can give,
Prepare to move on,
'Cause this place is not your home, well, woh.


Jah send I as a messenger,
To teach the youth about roots and culture,
And tell the massive fi remember Jah,
That's all I a deal with Iyah, well.


Jah send I as a messenger,
To teach the youth about roots and culture,
And tell the massive fi remember Jah,
That's all I a deal with Iyah.


Jah send I as a messenger,
To teach the youth about roots and culture,
And tell the massive fi remember Jah,
That's all I a deal with Iyah.


Jah send I as a messenger,
To teach the youth about roots and culture,
And tell the massive fi remember Jah,
That's all I a deal with Iyah.

****LUCIANO - JAH IS MY NAVIGATOR****

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***JAH IS MY NAVIGATOR****

TRACKLIST


1. For I
2. Jah Is My Naviagator
3. Darkness
4. No Evil
5. I'm The Tuffest (With Andrew Tosh)
6. Never Give Up
7. Trod Out
8. Sweet Jamaica
9. Jah Live
10. Wish You Were Mine
11. Paradise Last (With Rochelle Bradshaw)
12. African Liberty
13. Wise Up Youth
14. Jah Canopy
15. Hard Herbs


Label VP
Orig Year 2008

Like many successful reggae singers, Luciano has something of an overexposure problem -- hardly a year has gone by since the mid-'90s without at least three Luciano albums (some of them, granted, probably unauthorized). But unlike many overexposed reggae singers, Luciano can actually stand up to that kind of exposure. His voice is so sweet and his songs so generally well written that it's hard to really imagine getting tired of him, and his huge popularity ensures that top-notch producers regularly offer him their finest rhythms. Jah Is My Navigator finds him in top form, singing his usual roots-and-culture songs over a host of old-school rhythms provided by legendary saxophonist and producer Dean Fraser. The first part of this album is the strongest: "For I" evokes the cathartic style of the late Lucky Dube, "I'm the Tuffest" updates the Johnny Clarke classic to nice effect, and "Trod Out" updates the vintage "Unchained" rhythm to even nicer effect. The album's high point is its middle section, which features the brilliant "Sweet Jamaica," an anguished song with a dark and dubby rhythm, and a very good cover of Bob Marley's "Jah Live." The program ends badly, though, with a non-reggae tearjerker called "Paradise Last," and a tedious two-chord exercise titled "Wise Up Youth." Jah Is My Navigator may not be his greatest album ever, but it's a worthy addition to this brilliant artist's catalog. ~ Rick Anderson


Audio Mixers: Shane Brown; Rohan Dwyer; Cegricia Hamilton; Steven Stanley ; Andrew Seidel; Collin "Bulbie" York.


Recording information: Geejam; Grafton Studios; Tuff Gong.


Photographer: Martei Korley.


Personnel: Mikey Chung (guitar, guitars); Ian Coleman, Mitchum Chin (guitars); Dean Fraser (saxophone, horns, background vocals); Nambo Robinson (trumpet, trombone); Dwight Richards (trumpet); Paul "Scooby" Smith (organ, keyboards); Joshua Manning, Joshua Manning, Robert Lyn, Carroll "Bowie" McLaughlin (keyboards); Glen Browne, Donald "Danny Bassie" Dennis, Michael Fletcher, Robbie Shakespeare, Chris Meredith (bass guitar); Lowell "Sly" Dunbar, Sly Dunbar, Kirk Bennett (drums, percussion); Sean Darson, Melbourne Miller, Shaun Darson (drums); Sidney "Congo Billy" Watson, Denver Smith, Alvin Haughton (percussion); Chris Smith , Duane Stephenson, Rochell Bradshaw, Althea Layne Hamilton, Daffodils, Carol Dexter, Sherita Lewis, Nikki Burt (background vocals).


Additional personnel: Rochell Bradshaw, Andrew Tosh.


Uncut (p.93) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]is most varied album in a while....Flitting from the rootical vibrations of the title track to the jump-up rocksteady of 'I Am The Tuffest'..."
The Beat (p.10) - "Luciano gets in one of his best releases of the last few years with JAH IS MY NAVIGATOR....This one has the feel and intent of what first attracted us to this inspirational artist."

LUCIANO - IN THE BEGINNING

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****IN THE BEGINNING****

TRACKLIST


1. Don't Get Crazy
2. This World
3. Sattamassagana
4. Can't Blame The Youth
5. Got A Thing For You
6. Just The Way You Are
7. Bob Marley Medley
8. Medley
9. Love You Higher
10. So Nice To Be With You

LUCIANO - GOD IS GREATER THAN MAN

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****GOD IS GREATER THAN MAN****

TRACKLIST


1. Running For My Life
2. Bring Back The Vibes
3. Kingdom Of Jah
4. Give Thanks & Praise
5. Bad Situation
6. Cheer Up
7. Borrowed Time
8. Strive
9. Enough Is Enough
10. God Is Greater Than Man
11. Mankind Cease
12. Take Me There
13. Bad Situation Remix


Label Cousins
Orig Year 2007

Just two months after the release of his excellent REVELATION TIME, Roots veteran Luciano brings together 13 tracks of older vibes on his second solid album of 2007, GOD IS GREATER THAN MAN. Compiled by producer Donville Davis, GOD IS GREATER THAN MAN is mostly a collection album with a few scattered new songs, and features Luciano lending his vibrant timbre to classic riddims from Kingston mainstays such as Duke Reid and Bunny Lee.


Luciano is back and stronger than ever, originally from a church background and being a member of the church choir. Within the reggae circles he is often referred to as the messenger. This new album features the title hit song "God is Greater Than Man" u

LUCIANO - DUETS

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****DUETS****

TRACKLIST


1. Luciano & Charlie Chaplin - Jah Is Alive
2. Luciano & Beres Hammond - No Gabbon
3. Luciano & Sizzla - Jah Line
4. Luciano & Josey Wales - Rebel With A Cause
5. Luciano & General Pecus - Back To Africa
6. Luciano & Charlie Chaplin - Ain't Living Up
7. Luciano & Spanna Banna - What We Need Is Love
8. Luciano, Louie Culture & Terror Fabulous - In This Together
9. Luciano & Mutabaruka - Psalms 24
10. Luciano & Sizzla - In The Time
11. Luciano & Marcia Griffiths - Hold On Natty
12. Luciano, Sizzla & Jessie Gender - Born In Famine
13. Luciano & Alton Ellis - Jah Guide Us
14. Luciano & Sizzla - Jah Blessing
15. Luciano & Coco Tea - Royal Inna Town
16. Luciano & Rebel Maal - Africans Unite
17. Luciano, Beres Hammond & Tony Rebel - Every Man Has His Way
18. Luciano & Cocoa Tea - Mr. Governor
19. Luciano & Morgan Heritage - Talking Bout
20. Luciano & Selvie Wonder - Neighbourhood Watch


COMPILATION OF DUETS FROM LUCIANO WITH OTHER ARTIST
PRODUCED BY PHILIP ¨FATTIS¨ BURELL


LABEL JET STAR
DATE 2003

LUCIANO - BACK TO AFRICA

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****BACK TO AFRICA****

TRACKLIST


A1 Bounty Lover
A2 Give Thanks To Jah
A3 Back To Africa
Toasting [Featuring] - General Pecos
A4 Neighbourhood Watch
Toasting [Featuring] - Selvie Wonder
A5 Time Is The Master
Producer - Blacka Dread*
Written-By - D. Heywood* , L. Heywood* , S. Martin*
A6 Wicked Haffe Run Wey
B1 Do Me Baby
B2 I Believe In Music
B3 Movin' Up
B4 Come On Over
B5 Show You How


Country:UK
Released:1994
Genre:Reggae


Credits
Producer - Phillip 'Fattis' Burrell* (tracks: A1 to A4, A6 to B5)
Written-By - J. McLymont* , P. Burrell* (tracks: A1 to A4, A6 to B5)

LUCIANO - A NEW DAY

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****A NEW DAY****

TRACKLIST


1. No Night In Zion 4:39
2. Oh Father I Love Thee 3:51
3. Is There A Place ? 3:49
4. Happy People 3:49
5. Road Of Life 3:53
6. Nah Give Up 3:37
7. God Is My Friend 4:28
8. Only A Fool 3:51
9. Traveler 3:41
10. African Skies 3:44
11. A New Day 4:11
12. Hardcore 3:54
13. Spring Summer 4:03
14. God & King 3:52
15. Tell Me Why 3:26
16. Save The World 4:53
17. Journey 3:54


Label VP
Orig Year 2001


Personnel: Bo Pee, Dalton Browne, Ernie Wilks (guitar); David Madden, Dean Fraser, Tan Tan (horns); Noel Browne, Robert Lyn, Steven "Lenky" Marsden (keyboards); George "Dusty" Miller , Scully, Sly Dunbar, Bongo Herman (drums).


Audio Mixers: Collin "Bulbie" York; Lynford "Fatta" Marshall; Rohan Dwyer; Solgie Hamilton.


Photographer: William Richards.


Personnel includes: Luciano (vocals); Dalton Browne, Raymond McLaughlin (guitar); Dean Fraser, David Madden (horns); Robbie Lyn (keyboards); Robbie Shakespear, Harry T. (bass); Sidney "Congo Billy" Watson, Sly Dunbar (drums); Pam Hall, Sherida Sharpe, Althea Lane (background vocals).


Engineers: Orville Baker, Dean Fraser, Lynford Marshall.


A NEW DAY was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.


It's rare to find a reggae singer these days who is able to draw audiences equally from the dancehall and roots crowds, but that's exactly what Luciano does, attracting fans of modern reggae with the up-to-the-minute grooves provided by his great Firehouse Crew band (and, on his latest album, the legendary drum'n'bass duo of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare) while simultaneously keeping the loyalty of the roots-and-culture crowd with the heartfelt spirituality of his lyrics. On A New Day, he opens with a long, hypnotic exercise in nyabinghi hymnody, the gently stirring repatriation anthem "No Night in Zion," then proceeds to deliver 16 more songs of spiritual uplift, all of them powered by soft-textured but deep and weighty roots rhythms. Particular highlights include the plaintive "Is There a Place?" and the soulful, horn-driven "Only a Fool." Even the spare and dubwise "Hardcore," which at first sounds like just another dancehall boast, turns out to be a declaration of religious faithfulness. Very impressive. ~

LUCIANO - CHILD OF A KING

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****CHILD OF A KING****

TRACKLIST


1. Remember When
2. This One Is For The Leaders
3. Brother Man
4. New World In The Morning
5. To Be Young Gifted & Black
6. Desperate Lover
7. Can't Take No More
8. Watch What You Doin'
9. Peace Train
10. So Much Goin On
11. This One For The Children
12. International Cannabis
13. Not Until
14. Child Of A King
15. Silver & Gold


Label VP
Orig Year 2006

Jamaican-born reggae artist Luciano has been enchanting listeners with his traditional brand of guitar-driven roots since he first came onto the scene with his 1993 debut, MOVING UP. On his 2006 release, CHILD OF A KING, Luciano, alongside producer Byron Murray, serves up a blend of new compositions and recent hits, as well as classics from the worlds of R&B, soul, and rock such as "Young, Gifted, & Black," "Peace Train," and "Desperate Lover."Uncut (p.78) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his latest album maintains his status, offering a wide-ranging set of accessible and impeccably executed songs."