Ska, dub bands a hit in Japan
You have no way of predicting what will or won’t happen in your lifetime. But really, I had no idea of experiencing one of two recent ‘firsts’ in the context that I did, even though it’s not quite surreal or even unbelievable that I did.
The first of the firsts was seeing Mighty Crown, the Japanese sound system play. Not so out of this world. Mighty Crown has made a name for itself, and it is widely known that the Japanese are into Jamaican music. The place was a packed auditorium in Japan’s southern Fukuoka City. With the selectors’ mastery of patois, though interspersed with Japanese, and the audience’s ‘forwards’ for any given tune, only consciousness separated this from a dance in Jamaica.