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Ringbang®
lingua:
all things have a natural swing -
. . . don’t suppress it.
at a certain point all rhythms meet -
. . . don’t deny it.
no ring-bang, no rhythm -
. . . no melody, no music, etc.
Welcome to Ringbang®!
Welcome to the Ringbang Culture! Well,
it’s guidance of the youth through ‘Art’,
and through a concept that reminds the
people of the Caribbean that their true
value resides in their ability to be creators
of intellectual property right down to
the way they ‘Walk and Talk,’ and most
importantly, that no respect is achieved
by a people who cannot find the greatest
value in what they are. This intrinsically
is what Ringbang is about, VALUE. We must
find the greatest value in what we are;
what we grow, what we make, how we look,
no matter how funny we appear by other
peoples’ standards. We have to create
an alternative Standard for ourselves,
as those created by others were not for
our benefit. This is Ringbang. It is O-riginal,
and it is eventually our only hope as
we travel through an increasingly more
hostile world that is being recreated
to exclude us as true participators in
a new ‘global bonanza.’
The facets of Ringbang are multitudinous,
and as it develops, new aspects become
apparent. At first there was the Ringbang
MUSIC developed as a medium through which
the young people of the Caribbean could
truly speak to each other musically and
otherwise. In the past, all music consumed
in the Caribbean by Caribbean people was
made exclusively by older folks for older
folks or younger folks for older folks
and ‘if the young people like it they
like it.’ Calypso, and all the other music
forms, cross-pollinated very little, and
generally, the young people wishing to
contribute were always besieged by ‘know-alls’
debating ‘who really did what’ and ‘which
country owned what,’ etc.
Ringbang drew a line under all of that.
It was then no longer required that in
order to be genuine THIS OR THAT you had
to have HORNS or any such like. With Ringbang
everything became elemental; you play
wha’ you got and ‘RIDDAM IS BOSS’ anyway,
so once it could play riddam, you cool.
So now we are truly being productive –
you see how it wuk? You don’t have to
be afraid to play anything on anything…
EDDY GRANT SEH SOH an’ ah he wha’ conceptualise
de ting name Ringbang.
Ringbang Music allows the aspiring Ringbang
Artist to use all that is available to
create NEW MUSIC ……Ringbang Music.
As the finishing touches were being put
on ICE Records Ltd. latest Ringbang creation,
aptly named “Ringbang Rebel Dance,” it
became very apparent that the talented
Ringbang Artists and Eddy Grant were re-writing
and re-drawing the boundaries of Popular
Music. The music invades your body and
your consciousness. It is the natural
progression of Caribbean Music, and is
sure to be a major force in the future
direction of Popular Music.
Ringbang® is currently gaining momentum
worldwide, from Dance Clubs in London,
England to Underground Bars in New York
City, from Massive Street Festivals in
Toronto, Canada to the Carnivals of the
Caribbean. People everywhere are catching
Ringbang Fever. The late Roaring Lion,
Correctly described by Ice Records owner,
Eddy Grant as "a wise old sage with the
mind of a youth," is one of the founding
statesmen of calypso music. Roaring Lion,
who performed well into his 90's, experienced
a mega hit in 1995 with “Papa Chunks,”
a merger of the old and the new... Ringbang.
Superblue,
Square One, Preacher, Grandmaster, Adisa,
Viking Tundah, Legend, The Lewis Brothers,
Gabby, Grynner and many other talented
artists on the ICE Records label are making
Ringbang explode on to the scene!! And
they are not alone! DJ Grandmaster, Nigel
and Marvin Lewis as well as all current
young and many mature Caribbean artistes,
including Beenie Man, are making Ringbang
Music.
As the Lingwa goes... This is the final
frontier..... Enjoy ..... Ringbang®!!
In
much the same way Ringbang PHILOSOPHY
through the Ringbang Belief System calls
on the World to ‘Burn The Books Of Lies’
(HISTORY). As we go into this revisit
of the digital age, the information which
we all know to be LIES must not be allowed
to continue by replicating it in the digital
format. This would enable all the peoples
of this world to live a little more harmoniously,
and by accepting their Ringbang, those
who now control the affairs of this world
would recognise their true history and
heritage as they would ours and make reparation
to those who have been wronged at the
hands of their forefathers and as a result
continue blindly and arrogantly to do
so.
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