The Tobago-born Reggae star Franz Job stroke again: his latest achievement is a new riddim sampler with a fine selection of Reggae artists performing on the Country Life Riddim, produced by Franz Job in the name of the Country Boyz Foundation.
The perfect smooth summer soundtrack we all were waiting for! Music from the heart with positive messages and relaxed vibes.
Again, like on his earlier riddim samplers Franz gathered an impressive array of gifted artists many of whom are well known on their islands but still to be discovered for the global Reggae scene.
Beside Franz himself with his track "Every Day" there are for example the Trinidadian Reggae & Soca artist Bud Ramsay with his fantastic tune "Top of the World", the breathtakingly versatile Soca, Reggae and yes: Hardcore singer Malene Younglao, born in T&T living in Philly, with her song "Lick Shot", the US Rootsreggae band King Solomon with their uplifting song "Get Myself Together", "All Over Again" by Khari Kill from New York who in the words of BBC radio is "Reggae's unknown superstar", the Guyanese singer Bumpa Green, the HipHop, Reggae and Soca producer and singer Dainjamental, and many many more.

Please find the download links here!

Country Boyz Foundation Presents: Country Life Riddim by Faluma

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Just a few weeks after the horrible earthquake, Haiti already disappears again from TV and the public attention. However the people of Haiti are still having incredibly hard times and we were extremely relieved to hear that all our Haitian artists and their families are at least alive and unharmed. More than ever we want to support them as best as we can, so we'ld like to draw your attention once again to the releases from Haiti / the Haitian Diaspora:

Frèt Kash

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The latest release of Bacchanalism, the album "Illusion" builds bridges across borders: borders of countries, cultures, minds and music-styles.
7 young musicians with roots in Haiti, Côte d'Ivoire and Switzerland teamed up, called themselves Crazy Boys Generation, or CBG, and mingled their musical backgrounds to create a unique style.
CBG was founded in 2006 in Geneva by the three friends Antoine Alouidor alias T-one, Joelby Jean alias Jlb Tafia, Yannick Dje alias Y.Dje. Owing to their enthusiasm, creativity and love for music, they were able to get more and more band members on board. Over the years not only the band, but also their fan-base grew, infected by CBG's verve and energy loaded performances at festivals and concerts in Switzerland and abroad.
Their style is truely one-of-a-kind: Haitian mizik rasin and rap fuse to rapsin, with Haitian drums, west African sounds and lyrics sung and rapped in French, Creole and English.
The producer Ted Gabriel Beaubrun alias TedyBoy, deriving from a musical family, stirred versatile cultural influences with great creativity and composed an array of fresh and innovative pieces for CBG's album "Illusion", released in 2009.
This energetic mixture of positive vibes, well-produced beats and intelligent lyrics will definitely make you listen to the voice of the Crazy Boys Generation!

It's not just an "illusion", it's straightforward reality!
Find the links to the download stores where you can purchase the album "Illusion" here, please.

Go and check out the Boys live at Festival Tambour Battant (Genève, Switzerland), November  28th, 2009.

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Boukman Eksperyans is one of the most important and most popular bands from Haiti, touring the world for the last two decades, once even have been nominated for a Grammy. Being a blend of Rasin, Reggae and Voodoo Rock, the band's sound is as unique as it is enchanting. The fusion of traditional Haitian influences, rock-style guitar and uplifting lyrics in French, Kreyol and English is a hallmark of the band that was named after Dutty Boukman a hero of the slave uprising that resulted in the Haitian revolution.

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Bacchanalism is proud to present one of the most promising Reggae artists from Trinidad & Tobago: Franz Job. Beside the widely known Soca and Calypso culture of the Caribbean twin-island republic, there is also a lively Reggae scene with a musical output on the highest quality level. Franz Job, the Eclectic Country Boy from Tobago is not only a skilled producer, but also a singer with a fantastic voice and a lot of song writing talent.
Please find the links to his releases on Bacchanalism below:
His solo album:

Franz Job - Babylon Is Dead

Riddim compilations produced by Franz Job:

Country Boyz Foundation presents: Country Boy - The Riddim Album

Country Boyz Foundation presents: The Beautiful Songs of More Times - The Riddim Album

Country Boyz Foundation presents: Love Trap - The Riddim Album

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"Frèt Kash" by Negus World Order feat. Siameze and Sha
Haiti Kanaval 2009, Rapsin style, by artists from the Ayiti Diasporap posse.

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The legendary Haitian band Boukman Eksperyans now cooperates with Bacchanalism. We are very proud to announce that we will make their wonderful new album "La Révolte Des Zombies" available for download in all major download stores in October. Above you can enjoy the very first video of one of the album's tunes "Twoubadou Rasin".

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"Babylon Is Dead" is the debut album of Franz Job, the brightest star
on the Reggae firmament above his beautiful home, the Caribbean island of Tobago.

After the immense success as a producer of three riddim compilations and singer of several single tunes, he now presents this wonderful solo album. With his unique voice Franz Job tells his audience about his youth on the countryside, of finding his way abroad and of his love for music that helps getting through all hardships and sweetens the happy moments of live.

In Franz Jobs songs the influences of Jamaican Roots Reggae mingle with the elaborate lyrical tradition of Calypso from Trinidad & Tobago. The result is an album filled with intriguing melodies and lyrics with a message.

To find the download links click here, please.

And the CD is available here.

And there are detailed reviews about the album in German on dancehallmusic.de and  reggae-town.de.

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 Single from Franz Job's debut album "Babylon is Dead" that will be
available for purchase online in two weeks.

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The compilation Ayiti Diasporap 4 Life presents an impressive line-up of rappers who have Haiti in their hearts, no matter where life has taken them. This is expressed in various styles and languages. Every song ist a love message to the beautiful but trouble-shaken island. No matter if it is sung, rapped or toastet, in Creole, French, English or Spanish. Influences of US-Rap and RnB, as well as Haitian Zouk and Jamaican Dancehall and Reggae can be heard, each artist having an individual style.
Here you can find the links to the downloadshops, where you can get this very special compilation [click].
Enjoy!

  
Download now or listen on posterous

Haitian Mafia - La maison.mp3 (477 KB)

Myspace Ayiti Diasporap

Read a review of this compilation on dancehallmusic.de (in German)

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“Scrilla” is the first Dubstep EP produced by the Germany based DJ of the infamous MashUp Crew and producer Danny Scrilla. With a large spectrum of styles this release should draw the interest of reggae aficionados as well as of subbass ravers. The great seen blog writes about Danny Scrilla: “He´s young, gifted and back with an EP packed with a fist-full of wobbling dubstep compositions”. That’s right and it is just the start! Beside being one of the DJs of the infamous Mashup Crew, he is feverishly producing intoxicating tunes. So be sure that there is much more to come and this stirring EP is just an appetizer. We are hungry for more and happy to have this promissing artist on our label. Let’s wobble with Scrilla!

Find the links to the download platforms here, please [click!].

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Today Franz Job aka “The Eclectic Country Boy”, is one of the greatest and most promising Reggae artists outta Trinidad & Tobago. He composed and produced several wonderful riddims, voiced by the cream of the crop of T&T’s Reggae scene, he is also singing himself and playing instruments.
Franz is proud to be a “country boy” from Trinidad’s smaller sister island of Tobago. Growing-up on this gem of the Caribbean with its scenic beauty and seclusion on one hand and variety of musical traditions on the other hand formed him. Already at the tender age of 14, Franz Job was an accomplished rhythm guitarist in his countryside village of Charlotteville, Tobago.
Steel Pan and the song writing excellence of the Calypso and Country genres, together with high energy church sessions can be named as fundamental influences as well as his childhood heroes such as The Wailers, Israel Vibration, later on mid 90s superstars The Fugees were a great inspiration.

Five years later, after finishing an engineering course at The College of North East London, Franz with the help of fellow teenaged church goers Gemma Devonish and Lorraine Hutchinson, made his first recording ‘Juggle Down Dey’. After hearing the innovativeness and versatile musical capability of the young country boy, veteran sound man and Reggae intelligentsia Gladdy Wax became integral in mentoring the budding artist through the ins and outs of the record industry.

From there on, Franz, funded solely by monies made as a pharmacy assistant, composed and produced numerous recordings under the ‘Roots Conquest’ collective – a group consisting of close friends founded by the hard working musician.
This is the era that truly defined the “Eclectic Country Boy” and brought him to the attention of producer extraordinaire Rollo Armstrong and various other record company hot shots.
Franz then went on to feature on the ‘Sweet As’ hip hop album by renowned UK producer P*Nut and the platinum selling Faithless album ‘Forever Faithless’.
In 2006 the Country Boyz Foundation (CBF) was founded, a UK based Entertainment Group that consists of an Independent Record Label Imprint and Music Publishing House dedicated to the uplift and worldwide promotion of Tobago recording and performing artists.
Bacchanalism is now cooperating with CBF to bring the beautiful music of eclectic Tobago artist Franz Job to all major download shops. The digital release of three sweet riddims, that feature Trinidad &Tobago’s finest is just accomplished and there is more to come soon. We'll keep you updated.

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When you picture a riddim album titled Love Trap, you automatically think of love songs often singing stories of which we're all too familiar with. Not in this case. As a matter of fact, no where near. Yes, there's a love song or two, but nothing like your average. It's as if the hypnotic pulses of this sophisticated, yet easy flowing musical construction takes hold of all pre-empted every day lyrics and story lines and render them as useless.

Instead there are heartfelt love expressions by Franz Job and Candice Lee, socio-political commentary on the hardships of society's poorer classes by King David, Jah Sesco's more militant stance against the oppressive tactics and tacticians of Babylon and many more wonderful songs that will stay in your heart and your ear for much longer than this album's runtime.

Please find this great riddim at Finetunes and the Juno store, more download shops will follow soon.

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If ever there was a riddim album that truly reflected the lyrical prowess and diverse melody making techniques of Trinidad & Tobago reggae stars, this would be it. More Times is a genius array of musical interpretation and a pivot point in the artistic direction of the current T&T reggae uprising.

Composed by one of T&T's finest reggae artists, Franz Job, its driving one drop drum beat, soul seductive bass line and infectious guitars combine to formulate the perfect potion to make its audiences cry out for more. On More Times the artists are relaxed yet fiery, humble yet bold. There's courage to speak the truth and sweet inspiration for uplifting messages, heartening tributes and beautiful love songs.

To pick a favourite would be an almost impossible challenge. There's simply a little somethin' on here for everyone, just the way it should be.

Go and get it at Finetunes or JunoDownloads now, other stores will follow soon.

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We are proud to announce that the latest Bacchanalism releases, three wonderful Reggae riddim albums by the Country Boyz Foundation, are online now!
The first one, Country Boy - The Riddim Album, is featuring renditions from the most prominent Trinidad & Tobago reggae stars. This album is tightly packed with lots of positive country style vibes that credit and compliment the one drop CBF Country Boy Riddim track in very fine style.
Whether it be romance, Rasta inspiration and uplift or the joyful celebration of the herb, this album surely won't disappoint - and is perfectly poised to have all horns and whistles blowing, lighters and mobile phones waving in open air and dancehalls across T&T, the rest of the Caribbean and the world inna Country Boy stylee!
You can download it at Finetunes or the Juno store, more shops will follow soon.

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