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Ras Shiloh Coming Home
Article by Diane “Livonn” Adam
“Ras Shiloh’s voice remains piercing yet amazingly gentle. He displays a different range on Coming Home than previously heard. Clearly, this young Rasta’s voice is maturing in a direction that still places him as one of the highest order of Jah’s angels --- a Seraphim for the new millennium and beyond.” – Diane “Livonn” Adam
Ras Shiloh has been a truly missed live performance artist in Northern California. So it’s with much anticipation that this Brooklyn-born artist is back to the business of delivering the sweet sound of reggae in his own unique way with his superb new 2007 CD release, Coming Home (VP Records) produced by the legendary Bobby “Digital" Dixon.
Coming Home is truly a work of art and a labor of love by Ras Shiloh and producer Bobby Digital. A winning combination considering the Garnet Silk-like vocals of Ras Shiloh and Digital’s many accomplishments including his production work on Sizzla’s Da Real Thing and Black Woman & Child. From start to finish Coming Home is roots and culture at its highest and easily one of the best reggae releases this year. No doubt, this one will keep rotating in your music players day and night! Opening the album is the soul-stirring, “We Need Love” refraining that, We need more / Our nation is crying out / We need more love (love is what we’re searching for) in this world today / Promise us a better way / We need more joy (joy is what we need today) / a place for the children to play / Where is the sunny day...” Coming Home’s success can also be attributed to some brilliant musicianship from Squidley Cole on drums, Donald “Danny Bassie” Dennis on bass, Dalton Browne on guitars, Paul “Right Move” Crossdale, Sidney Mills, Mikey Spice and Benjy Myaz on keyboards and the great Dean Fraser on sax.
For many of us the introduction in 1998 of Ras Shiloh came by way of his 1998 CD release, Babylon You Doom which subsequently took him on tour to California to perform. His distinctive a cappella vocals literally took wings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area as he performed from Maritime Hall to Reggae In The Park and seemed to take root as a young artist who was destined to make it to the top. Personal issues may have played a part in his departure from the music scene in the Bay Area but it has not stopped this young Rasta from continuing what he does best, releasing a comeback album in 2002 with From Rasta To You (VP Records).
Accolades for Coming Home are many since every track on this CD is pure gold. Songs I find particularly impressive are “Give A Little Love”, the spiritually felt, “What You Have Done” and “Come Down Jah Jah”, “The New Rising Day” featuring Bascone X and “It Will Be Over” featuring Natural Black. The album also features Morgan Heritage on the song “Let The People Voice Be Heard”.
Ras Shiloh’s voice remains piercing yet amazingly gentle. He displays a different range on Coming Home than previously heard. Clearly, this young Rasta’s voice is maturing in a direction that still places him as one of the highest order of Jah’s angels --- a Seraphim for the new millennium and beyond.
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Man from the Mountain
Ras Shiloh Lyrics
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Oh oh oh yeah
Aah
I'm the man from the mountain
With my sky great trees
Fresh from the fountains
Free like the birds and the bees
Coming with their guns and tankers
Trying to destruct the plant of the?
What are you doing to nature
When the wind start blow
The rubbish will follow
The shark will be
The whale will swallow
The great and the wisdom
The heavy and the sorrow
The way get clear when the road get narrow
Oh
Haven't i told you
I'll make the grey skies blue
Don't let them fool you
With all the evil they do
When the wind start blow
The rubbish will follow
The shark will be
The whale will swallow
The great and the wisdom
The heavy and the sorrow
The way get clear when the road get narrow
Oh
All the animals in the mountains
And all the fishes in the deep blue sea
Babylon can't count them
So why can't we live in peace
I was born of a place
Where there's enough sorrow
An eye for an eye
And every man barrow
They live in?
And sleep in terror
They hide from the truth
And i ... arrow
Oh
Haven't i told you
I'll make the grey skies blue
Don't let them fool you
With all the evil they do
"Man from the Mountain" by Ras Shiloh is a compelling reggae song that speaks to the importance of preserving nature and living in peace. The song starts with a powerful opening “Righteousness” which sets the tone while the chorus “when the wind starts to blow, the rubbish will follow, the great and the wisdom, the heavy and the sorrow” teaches the importance of being one with nature and not polluting it. The verses proceed to express the singer's identity as "the man from the mountain, with his sky great trees, fresh from the fountains, free like the birds and the bees", representing the purity of nature and its beauty. Furthermore, the song touches on the theme of colonization and the destruction of nature by those who do not understand its intrinsic value. Colonizers with "guns and tankers" come to "destruct the plant" of the mountain nature, which sprouts a plea from the singer asking " What are you doing to nature?"
The song advocates for brotherhood among all the creatures in nature, including animals like "all the animals in the mountains and all the fishes in the deep blue sea". Babylon, the symbol of all wickedness, is unable to count them, making the question louder, why can't we live in peace? The song suggests that we should eschew violence and live in harmony with nature, the man from the mountain is convinced that he could “make the grey skies blue” if he is given the chance.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm the man from the mountain
I am a person who lives in the mountains.
With my sky great trees
The trees in the sky, that are huge and tall, belong to me.
Fresh from the fountains
I get my water from the mountains springs, which is very pure.
Free like the birds and the bees
I am free like the birds and bees that live in the mountains.
Father i'm getting conquered
People are trying to conquer or defeat me.
Coming with their guns and tankers
They are coming with weapons like guns and tankers.
Trying to destruct the plant of the?
They are trying to destroy the plants and nature around me.
What are you doing to nature
Why are you harming nature and the environment?
When the wind start blow
When the wind starts to blow.
The rubbish will follow
The trash and debris that people have left behind will follow the wind.
The shark will be
The shark will appear.
The whale will swallow
The whale will consume.
The great and the wisdom
The important and intelligent people.
The heavy and the sorrow
The burdens and grief that people carry with them.
The way get clear when the road get narrow
When things get tough, the path gets clearer.
Haven't i told you
Didn't I already tell you this?
I'll make the grey skies blue
I will make the gloomy skies clear and bright.
Don't let them fool you
Do not be deceived by them.
With all the evil they do
They are doing many wicked things.
All the animals in the mountains
All the animals that live in the mountains.
And all the fishes in the deep blue sea
And all the fish that live in the deep blue sea.
Babylon can't count them
There are too many for anyone to count or know for sure.
So why can't we live in peace
So, why can't we live in harmony and without conflict?
I was born of a place
I was born in a particular location.
Where there's enough sorrow
I come from a place where there is lots of sadness and pain.
An eye for an eye
If someone wrongs me, I will retaliate in the same manner.
And every man borrow
And everyone is always in need of something.
They live in?
People live in a certain way or manner.
And sleep in terror
They sleep with fear and anxiety.
They hide from the truth
They avoid facing the reality.
And i ... arrow
And I use my bow and arrow as a weapon.
Contributed by Andrew V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Cook with Ferra
2019 and still loving this..
Mikey Levi
this song is so bigg i love this vibe the way get clear when the road get narrow this song really identify
macmellan louis
Rasta jahh bless respect real music