potbellymackraken
Joined: Apr 30, 2017
Posts: 28
Central Coast, CA
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Posted on Mar 23 2019 11:33 PM
Any other Jamaican Ska fans on here? How about a mash up Ska and Surf?
I'm working on a new single I'm planning on releasing soon once I finish the recording and mixing on the two songs, and get the proper licensing for the one track; it's an effort at a mash up of my two musical loves, 60s Jamaican Ska and California Surf Rock. First track is a Big Band Ska-Surf version of the Jerry Lordan tune Apache, a standard in the Surf genre; 2nd track is an original Ska-Surf tune called Storm Surge I wrote back around 2007-ish. Original Album art as well, including the photo in the album art.
Ska and Surf go well together, methinks. I'm not the first to mash up the two genres, but you don't hear too many tunes combining the two and their different elements and qualities. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo3dpnCo6ik
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Fady
Joined: Mar 07, 2010
Posts: 2226
North Carolina
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Posted on Mar 24 2019 07:12 AM
BIG fan here of pretty much all things reggae, dub, ska from the 60’s thru the 70’s and even some of the early 80’s stuff.
I’m really digging your work here. Of course you’d expect the prominent off-beat accent rhythm to be part of an endeavor like this, however, the very pleasant surprise is how well you’ve done the horn section! Some real nice call and reponse to it and those early ska signature/‘correct’ chordal notes and phrases too.
I’m with you Potbelly, the genre mashups here sound pretty great to me. Great job!
— Fady
El Mirage @ ReverbNation
Last edited: Mar 24, 2019 07:13:37
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DeathTide
Joined: Apr 13, 2018
Posts: 1339
New Orleans
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Posted on Mar 25 2019 09:30 AM
Love it! Huge fan of 1st wave “reggae” but isn’t it really ska, dance hall, rock steady, reggae?!! Faves are Desmond Dekker, Horace Andy, Skatalites, Toots and the Maytals, Alton Ellis, and of course Prince Buster!
That surf tone is sweet! It almost gets buried a few times but it’s there!
— Daniel Deathtide
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DrippinReverb
Joined: Apr 03, 2019
Posts: 14
Earth
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Posted on Apr 09 2019 12:41 AM
Really interesting! Does Hank Marvin proud!
Nothing wrong with marying ska and surf! skurf!
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JazzIII
Joined: Apr 19, 2019
Posts: 17
Little Rock
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Posted on Apr 21 2019 04:23 AM
Huge ska fan, especially the two tone era.
— Forever known as the luckiest man alive.
https://www.facebook.com/zachcarpentermusic/
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bamboozer
Joined: Jan 18, 2010
Posts: 672
Delaware
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Posted on Apr 21 2019 07:21 AM
Cool! Think it would work well. Love Ska and all the rest, saw Bob Marley on the Kaya tour in 1978, perhaps that started it all.
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Noel
Joined: Mar 15, 2011
Posts: 8528
Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Apr 21 2019 08:17 AM
That's fun!
— This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.
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NeedsMoreReverb
Joined: Dec 12, 2007
Posts: 318
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Posted on Jul 30 2019 09:58 PM
Potbelly, just a heads up that The Surfrajettes are playing the central coast, Morro Bay Monday 8/5.
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