True Reflections...A New Beginning
Artist(s):
Jah Cure
Label: Vp Records
Publisher(s):
Vp Records
Studio: Vp Records
Manufacturer: Vp Records
Binding: Audio CD
MPN: 1782
List Price: $15.98
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Track Listing
1.
True Reflections
2.
Dem Nuh Build Great Man
3.
Longing For
4.
To Your Arms Of Love
5.
What Will It Take
6.
Love You
7.
Same Way
8.
Searching For a Girl
9.
Jamaica
10.
Cease All War
11.
Share the Love
12.
Love Is
13.
The Sound
14.
Conga Man
15.
Most High Cup Full
Customer Reviews
Please...can you ever give a bad review for Jah Cure
ABSOLUTLEY THE BEST ALBUM.....ALL MY FRIENDS AT WORK HAVE A COPY...AND THEY DONT EVEN LISTEN TO REGGAE.....BRILLIANT!!!
True Reflections......
1.True Reflections - nice but not great song to get the cd banging
2. Dem Nuh Build Great Man - (with Fantan Mojah) - listen to the lyrics.
3. Longing For - pump it loud in your car, jeep, etc.
4. To Your Arms of Love - pure magic.
5. What Will It Take - this guy is for real, listen.
6. Love You - classic pure classic
7. Same Way - light it up...
8. Searching For a Girl - reggae the right way
9. Jamaica - shhhhh light it up
10. Cease All War - listen and learn
11. Share the Love - (with Gentleman) - smooth
12. Love Is - great song, listen with intent
13. Sound, The - the beats are banging
14. Conga Man - dance with me...
15. Most High Cup Full - perfect song to light up :)
Thunder in the Heart
I chose the title of this review based on the fact that Jah Cure sings like He who has thunder in his heart. This music is deeply moving and impressive. I haven't heard a voice like his in many moons. I love it! Regardless of his past prison karma, I find his singing to be hauntingly sincere and beautiful.
Jah live
Supporting the Family
I only bought this album cause he's my cousin by marriage. Kidding....Not about the cousin part. That's true.
Jah Cure is one of the best singer/song writers around Jamaica and a staple at our house.
Now, if he would just release some more new material!
NO BED OF ROSES
TRUE REFLECTIONS (A NEW BEGINNING): This is a nice collection of some of Jah Cure's recent - and not so recent - singles releases, nicely packaged by VP and distributed to coincide with the singer's own release from prison July 28 -- but there's next to nothing here that you haven't already heard if you've had even a passing interest in reggae music over the past couple years. Without any doubt, the chart-busting, Vendetta-produced pair of LONGING FOR and LOVE IS (delivered on the massive DROP LEAF and SEASONS rhythms, respectively) are Cure's biggest hits to date. A naturally gifted singer, Cure tackles these themes of love, longing and the lock-up with such passion, such belief, such raw emotion, you just can't help but be moved. The confessional TRUE REFLECTIONS ("Prison a no bed a roses, the livity it mek me bawl, I wish that Jah could come and take us back in time...") is deeply and almost uncomfortably personal, nonetheless a very powerful statement and a beautiful vocal, if somewhat controversial considering the nature of Cure's conviction. WHAT WILL IT TAKE on the Vendetta-soundalike ISTANBUL rhythm is another convincingly emotional statement. It's not all such heavy going though. Definitely one of the best cuts collected here - probably my personal favourite, actually - is the excellent SAME WAY, a much breezier, much brighter love song on the bubbling GIDEON rhythm, though the quality of the vocal recording is a fairly stark reminder of Cure's circumstances at the time. It's even more apparent on the otherwise excellent combination tune, SHARE THE LOVE, where Gentleman's vocal is crisp and clear, and Cure sounds like he's recording in, well, a concrete cell. Still, that amazing voice packs a very powerful punch, especially on such highlights as CONGO MAN (on Black & White's spiritual MAROON rhythm), the beautiful, balmy JAMAICA (a sure shot for the Tourist Board), NUH BUILD GREAT MAN (with Fantan Mojah on the SWEET SOP rhythm) and the truly outstanding MOST HIGH CUP FULL (on a speaker smashing heavyweight remake of the Wailers' SUN IS SHINING rhythm).
As far as what's not here, VP has done a pretty tidy job of rounding up the biggest and best sides that Cure's recorded over the past three or four years, but I did miss the excellent Morgan Heritage-produced I'M STILL AROUND, as well as the strong combination with Italian singjay Alborosie (or is it Al Borosie??), LIFE. I was also surprised to find that the very, very nice HI HI was overlooked, since it was previously released by VP on the Alozade-produced BINGIE TROD rhythm as a part of the RIDDIM DRIVEN series. STICKY, Cure's nice cultural number on the new JAMDOWN rhythm is also missing.
There's definitely some value in having all of these great sides available in one place, and had this been a collection of new material, it would clearly be up for a five-star rating. Jah Cure is without question the most gifted, most talented singer in reggae since the untimely end of Garnet Silk's career back in the early nineties, and it will be very, very interesting to see what he does now with real recording equipment and unlimited studio time at his disposal. But the reality is that life on the outside isn't always a bed of roses either - anyone who's done time will tell you that those first few months after parole, the "new beginning" as VP has called it, can be the greatest challenge of all. It will be a crucial time for Jah Cure, I think.
Jah bless the Cure.
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