![]() The first couple of labels we've had, especially the very first label we had - I don't want to say any curse words on the radio station but, they didn't do us any favors, and all that did when it came to acts like ourselves, especially the reggae genre, was all about maximizing the sales for the benefit of the labels and where the returns were. That's a very good question because, major record labels have definitely failed us. And so, it's time to really be more active when it comes to our destination, where we really want to go as people, and where we really want to go as mankind.Ĭan you talk about your partnership with the non-profit label Rootfire, and why that's important to you? We're a small band when it compares to Rihanna, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars, so they're getting all the accolades, but what we're saying is ringing a lot more true, truer than what these guys, that are getting all the accolades are about, and it's all about nobody taking what's been going on seriously, until it comes to this, you see what I'm saying. I mean, we've aired our views for the longest time in our music, our music has always had that kind of sentiment towards it, and no one's paying attention. I think it's the same reason why it's gotten to where it's gotten to, no one was paying attention over the years. So, we'd like to know that the general public, after hearing the album, doesn't just listen, but participates in putting right all the ailments that the planet has been perpetuated with in the past ten years.ĭo you think people should try to ignore news in the media as it relates to politics, for the sake of our sanity, or do you feel like we need to be more concerned than that? But let's say it was internally done, it's still trying to perpetuate racism, because the end result of everything else is just racism. I mean look at the churches that got burnt down only a few days ago in Louisiana. The whole thing that's taking us by storm right now, whether we like it or not, is racism. And then you've got Brexit that got kicked in, across Europe. I mean if you think about it, the album was recorded over that span, and during those two different administrations there's been mayhem. There's so many issues that have come over the past, last two terms of Barack Obama for example, and this new term, there's so many issues. I want listeners to realize that there's more to listening to the album, actually participating in the subject matter, is what the album's trying to portray. How do you want listeners to feel when they listen to the new album? ![]() So every time we had a chance to do a series of dates, we managed to get some rehearsals in at that time and record while everybody was to get together at that time, because the airfares would have been astronomical trying to say, hey let's try to get together strictly for rehearsal every five minutes, would've been ridiculous, so that's one of the reasons why the album took that length of time. And then it became a rehearsal problem as well, where the band was all over the place, some live in Jamaica, some live in California, some live in New York, we ourselves live in England and parts of the Caribbean. We had a building so many years ago which was not for sale and we had to vacate it, during that time we had to keep touring, we had no record label, so it was all about generating finance to record the album ourselves. So, is that part of your typical creative process or why was this different?īecause, we didn't have our own studio to work out of. "Cry Cry Blood" is really good and I understand that you spent several years and various locations recording that song? I love the two new singles that have dropped. I don't want to hear, well, "after all those years, is that it?" But, we managed to do a couple of songs that will be featured on the album and it's been getting good favoritism. Kind of scary in a sense that not having an album out in such a long time, I'm apprehensive in the way the general public is going to take the music. KEXP: How does it feel to be back on tour and with new material?ĭavid Hinds: Mixed feelings. Since the end of last year, they've revealed two singles from that forthcoming release that they've been testing on audiences in live sets across the country. Steel Pulse will be releasing Mass Manipulation, their first studio album in 15 years, on May 17th followed by another tour. I had the last minute opportunity to sit down with David Hinds, lead singer and founding member of the band, which formed back in 1975, and talk about the new record, what it's like to tour after all these years, and their new partnership with the non-profit record label Rootfire. On Tuesday, April 9th, legendary roots reggae band Steel Pulse, from Birmingham, England, made a stop in Seattle at the Showbox Market while on their current tour.
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