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Terry Lynn from Kingston, Jamaica
KINGSTONLOGIC 2.0:
Terry Lynn captures with words a sense of Kingston’s environment and Jamaica’s struggles the way a camera captures images with a lens.
The sound is distinctive, hard and impassioned unlike anything heard from the sunny shores of this Carribean hotspot, matched only by the equally unrelenting imagery of The Afflicted Yard.
Terry wrote directly about the life swirling outside her window with Phred sourcing sounds from around the world. 1.0 was created, and 2.0 evolved the concept further. Days to weeks, months to years, airmiles, studios, sweat and tears, and the project took shape. Add to the mix imagery shot by Peter Dean Rickards of The Afflicted Yard, or filmed by the Rickards Brothers, and the layered perspectives of message, sound and vision, combine to shine light on and transcend day to day life and logic in Kingston.
TERRY LYNN:
The 9th of nine children, Terry Lynn was born and raised in Olympic Gardens, otherwise known as Waterhouse, an impoverished area in Kingston, Jamaica. Terry grew up a tomboy competing against boys all her life, from skateboards to rhymes. Her favorite hobby aside from survival was lyrically clashing with guys selling produce amidst the chaotic markets and crowded arcades of Kingston. She would fiercely take on anyone causing an uproar from passersby witnessing a female spitting hard, insightful lyrics about the city swirling around them.
As a female with a different perspective, Terry didn’t fit into the local studio system of rapid recording and was frustrated by the subject matter. She would not compromise her stance to fit in, opting instead to wait for a time to do things differently. They took as much time as needed to write complete stories and songs capturing her life experiences as she lived them, ignoring time pressures, and removed from the local industry grind. Then they created them once more again. The result is two sides of KINGSTONLOGIC. 1.0 & 2.0 -the first shall be last and the last shall be first.
The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.
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The Stereo MC’s – Double Bubble (2008)
The Brixton Boys are back! Stereo MC’s are all set to unleash their latest genre surfing opus, ‘Double Bubble’, onto an unsuspecting world this summer! Featuring full vocal version of recent single Gringo, alongside the electronic stomp of The Here & Now, the urban chronicles of City Lights, and epic Black Gold, the album also come with a very special bonus disc entitled ‘Bonus Bubble’, which has been made with this release specifically in mind.
Alongside this there is yet more very exciting news to come on the Stereo MC’s over the coming weeks and, often labelled as one of the UKs most iconic bands, and with Mercury nominations, Brit awards and million selling albums behind them, the Stereo MC’s are here once again to prove that theyre as innovative and relevant as ever.
