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...Over a fractured, occasionally brilliant catalogue, they have mostly seemed like a Lydon vehicle — partly because co-founders Keith Levene and Jah Wobble had quit by the mid-1980s, and partly because this...
...importantly, this is the first lead role for Dominique Fishback, who appeared in 2021 film Judas and the Black Messiah, who is darkly compelling as Dre, the socially awkward anti-hero who is obsessed with Ni’Jah...
...Here, the focus is on the most dispensable part of pop’s ecology, the devoted fan, Dre (Dominique Fishback, outstanding), whose obsession with superstar Ni’Jah (another piece of TV-à-clef: read Beyoncé)...
...Since then, his career has criss-crossed genres through his work with artists such as Radiohead, Jah Wobble and Prefab Sprout, while his jazz output has spanned grainy white-knuckle electronica, intimate...
...Denzil Forrester’s painting “Jah Shaka”, depicting a crowd animated by a charismatic DJ, pulsates like a dub reggae nightclub....
...Now, belatedly, his wife Esther (Zainab Jah) and daughter Sylvia (Jayme Lawson) are finally able to join him in the US....
...Natacha Atlas is one of the unsung, or at least undersung heroines of Britain’s world music scene, bringing charisma to everyone from Transglobal Underground and Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart to overlooked...
...Anchoring Yaël Farber’s intensely focused staging is a charismatic, emotionally textured performance from Zainab Jah, who brings out Lena’s kindness and toughness as well as her condescension and capriciousness...
...In keeping with her character, Jah is more subdued....
...Highlight is the deftly deconstructed boogie “Struttin’ for Jah Jah”....
...Meanwhile, PiL’s original bassist Jah Wobble (Sid Vicious’s all-too-perfect mishearing of John Wardle) is on the road with his own entertaining musical autobiography....
...Tiken Jah Fakoly Racines (Blue Wrasse) As a child in rural northern Côte d’Ivoire, Tiken Jah Fakoly whiled away the hours listening to his brother’s reggae records....
...Within months he had found two “oafs”, guitarist Keith Levene and bassist Jah Wobble, and formed Public Image Ltd....
...Jah Wobble Redux (Cherry Red/30Hz) Jah Wobble’s Stakhanovite work rate means that although he released a three-CD compilation a few years ago, this six-disc career retrospective repeats only a handful...
...The luminous Nyong’o creates a stirring portrait of a teenager awakening to her potential, while Pascale Armand as Bessie and Zainab Jah as Maima excel as women on more righteous paths to power....
...“Jah-nee! Jah-nee!” chanted the biggest crowd I have ever seen outside the Palazzo del Cinema....
...The sun baked the mud into clay, the silken banners rippled, and the audience spread out to listen to Tiken Jah Fakoly’s reggae, underpinned by ngoni and single-string fiddle as the Ivorian singer railed...
...Tiken Jah Fakoly Dernier Appel (Wrasse)...
...AW: Well, the sixth-best idea we’ve owned is Jarden Corp (JAH). We’ve made 827% on that, which goes to show you can do ok on your sixth-best idea....
...Thomas, who performs under the name of Jah Pinks, said he now prefers to drink marijuana tea; it’s better for his lungs and can be done discretely without the police hassling him over something many Jamaicans...
...I am suddenly reminded of a song from The Boy Friend that has lain dormant in my memory since I performed it at primary school and that goes: “Sur La Pla-ge / You may run up against a Ra-jah …Ev’ryone looks...
...She was alone with her guitar for “Psalm 33”, commanding the faithful to “Sing to Jah with your guitar/Turn up yer bass amp/Whack it up all the way to ‘save him’”, honouring the spirit of the original rather...
...Lydon grumbles like a pub bore while his band, minus founding members Jah Wobble and Keith Levene, provide a pale simulacrum of the original PiL’s barbed brilliance....
...Jah Wobble and Julie Campbell Psychic Life (Cherry Red Records)...
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