#franco rosso

[roseillith]

DREAD BEAT AN' BLOOD (1979) dir. FRANCO ROSSO

[changing-my-username]

He's going to replace him at RB for 5 races?

[videoreligion]

Hitch-Hike (1977)

[livetogether--diealone]

https://x.com/pikaclerc/status/1837892869970956319?s=19

Completely agree with this point. How can he chastise Franco for being "reckless" and risking the team points (when it was a great move) when he was the one that unnecessarily threw away precious constructor points last week by trying to attack his teammate. Ferrari had a shot to close up for the constructors last week and he pulled that move. He should be the last to speak and admit he got owned by a rookie today. At least he's learning though and didn't blame Franco in his post race tweet like he did with Oscar last year, I still can't believe that

Also I went and rewatched franco's start just to get the right picture, and after lights off cs isn't even in his line of sight, franco goes to the left of a vcar? (the toro rosso) and while he's passing u can't see cs who is on the right of the toro rosso, and then the only ferrari on his onboard camera is charles. Franco had actually such a clean and insane start (the good kind) for a first time Singapore runner

[stenka-razin]

in 2023 I watched some movies

I was gonna catch up on all those best picture nominees from the last 5 years, but watched crap like Caligula 2 instead

The 1989 World Tour - Live (2015, dir. Jonas Åkerlund) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022, dir. Rian Johnson) Flight 666 (2008, dir. Scot McFayden and Sam Dunn) Dracula (1931, dir. Todd Browning) Moonraker (1979, dir. Lewis Gilbert) The Pez Outlaw (2022, dir. Bryan Storkel and Amy Bandlien Storkel) Encino Man (1992, dir. Les Mayfield) Star Trek: Insurrection (1998, dir. Jonathan Frakes) Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (2019, dir. Quentin Tarantino) Cleopatra (1963, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) The Alligator People (1959, dir. Roy Del Ruth) The Silence of the Lambs (1991, dir. Thomas Demme) Godzilla vs. Megalon (“ゴジラ対メガロ” 1973, dir. Jun Fukuda) Invasion of Astro-Monster (“怪獣大戦争” 1965, dir. Ishirō Honda) Breaking a Monster (2015, dir. Luke Meyer) Terror at Orgy Castle (1971, dir. Zoltan G. Spencer) Wake in Fright ("Outback" 1971, dir. Ted Kotcheff) m.A.A.d. (2014, dir. Khalil Joseph) Reservoir Dogs (1992, dir. Quentin Tarantino) Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002, dir. Steve Oedekerk) House (1977, dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, dir. Steven Spielberg) Dunkirk (2017, dir. Christopher Nolan) Final Destination (2000, dir. James Wong) Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia (2023, dir. Salima Koroma) Basic Instinct (1992, dir. Paul Verhoeven) Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985, dir. Tim Burton) Caligula 2: The Untold Story (“Caligola: La storia mai raccontata” 1982, dir. Joe D’Amato) La noche del terror ciego (1972, dir. Amando de Ossorio) Rocky IV (1985, dir. Sylvester Stallone) Saw IV (2007, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman) House of Wax (1953, dir. Andre DeToth) Thir13en Ghosts (2001, dir. Steve Beck) Kashchey the Immortal (“Кащей Бессмертный” 1944, dir. Aleksandr Rou) Ghost Ship (2002, dir. Steve Beck) The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971, dir. Piers Haggard) The Face of Fu Manchu (1965, dir. Don Sharp) The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966, dir. Don Sharp) The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967, dir. Jeremy Summers) The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968, dir. Jesús Franco) April Fool's Day (1986, dir. Fred Walton) It's Pat 1994, dir. Adam Bernstein) The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969, dir. Jesús Franco) Adam and Eve Meet the Cannibals ("Adam ed Eve, la prima storia d'amore" 1983, dir. Enzo Doria & Luigi Rosso) The Mountain of the Cannibal God (“La montagna del dio cannibale” 1978, dir. Sergio Martino) When Harry Met Sally… (1989, dir. Rob Reiner) Beetlejuice (1988, dir. Tim Burton) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001, dir. Peter Jackson, Long as Shit Version) The Hobbit (1977, dir. Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Bass) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene) The Wicker Man (1973, dir. Robin Hardy) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, dir. Tobe Hooper) House of 1000 Corpses (2003, dir. Rob Zombie) Chopping Mall (1986, dir. Jim Wynorski) Basket Case (1982, dir. Frank Henenlotter) Cube (1997, dir. Vincenzo Natali) Cube 2: Hypercube (2002, dir. Andrzej Sekula) Practical Magic (1998, dir. Griffin Dunne) Tropic Thunder (2008, dir. Ben Stiller) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015, dir. J.J. Abrams) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, dir. Rian Johnson) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019, dir. J.J. Abrams) Eyes Wide Shut (1999, dir. Stanley Kubrick) Superbad (2007, dir. Greg Mottola) Bruce Almighty (2003, dir. Tom Shadyac) House of Flying Daggers (“十面埋伏” 2004, dir. Zhang Yimou) Saltburn (2023, dir. Emerald Fennell) Grandma’s Boy (2006, dir. Nicholaus Goossen) Five Nights at Freddy's (2023, dir. Emma Tammi) Caligula and Messalina (“Caligula et Messaline” 1981, dir. Bruno Mattei) The Wizard of Oz (1939, dir. Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, and Norman Taurog) A Christmas Prince (2017, dir. Alex Zamm) A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (2018, dir. John Schulz) The Knight Before Christmas (2019, dir. Monika Mitchell) Goldfinger (1964, dir. Guy Hamilton) Total Recall (1990, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

[tina-aumont]

Tina Aumont interview 7

And the actor who played Casanova, Leonard Whiting?

I haven't seen him since. He had shot a Zeffirelli before, I think. He was initially a stage actor, like many English people. I guess he's still playing. Comencini's film sometimes resembles Watteau's paintings.

Yes, although he often hesitates between humor, tenderness and sordidness.

Of course. You remember the episode of the surgery which was fatal to his father. Surgery which the good bourgeois attend like a show. The miracles of science.

70 is also the time when I filmed in “Corbari” by Valentino Orsini. This is the story of a resistance fighter in Cologne. A true story. I myself play the role of a resistance fighter. We are all shot. I would love to see it again. I can't say anything special about Corbari other than the fact that I have good memories of both the film and Giuliano Gemma. Coming back to fantasy, do you know that Dario Argento asked me to play in Suspiria? Unfortunately, I was not free.

Following that, you played in Necropilis by Franco Brocani.

Yes, it's a thriller where I play the role of a witch. There are plenty of references in this film to Bava, for example. It's pretty much the only thriller film I've made. Ah, there is "Lifespan" also in 75. But in 71, I play the fortune teller in "Arcana" by Giulio Questi. Again, a film that I am proud of. There is also "Bianco, Rosso e..." by Alberto Lattuada. It's a parody starring Sophia Loren. The story of a star who, following a car accident, finds herself in a suburban hospital, and she asks for her pedicurist, her astrologer... In it, Sophia Loren is a nun and Adriano Celentano is a patient. Me, the victim of my car accident, all plastered in my bed, someone gives me a slap to calm me down. It was very funny to play the role of a pain in the ass. It's a story inspired by Gina Lollobrigida's car accident. The same year, I filmed in “Il Sergente Klems” by Sergio Grieco with Peter Straus who had just filmed in “Soldat Bleu”. It was a shoot that lasted months and months, deep in the desert in Tunisia.

Tina interviewed by Antoine Cervero in 2001. Published in January/June 2002 Cine Zine Zone number 134.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sharing this gem.

[racewinners-landoandsam]

i saw a video on tik tik talking about f2 and how driver academies are making the championship null and void. which, sure this year you may think that because of Ollie and Kimi promoted, despite not overly excelling in the championship this year, and with Franco being Logan's replacement, but I have done the research, and am here to call this bollocks. this is gonna be a long one folks :)

we start in the good old year of 2016, when the series was still gp2, where we have 2015 champion Stoffel Vandoorne completing one race with mclaren before being promoted for a full season for 2017. Alongside him is 2014 champion Jolyon Palmer who completed a season with renault. Pascal Wehrlein, 2015 DTM champion, and Esteban Ocon, gp3 champion, were promoted to mrt, Esteban only racing after the summer break.

in 2017, Pierre Gasly, 2016 gp2 champion gets to finish the season with Toro Rosso, and 2nd in the championship, Antonio Giovinazzi raced twice for sauber. Lance Stroll, 5th in the f3 european series, was promoted to Williams, and Brendon Hartley, who won formula renault in 2015, also finished the season with toro rosso.

in 2018, 2017 f2 champion Charles Leclerc is promoted to sauber.

in 2019, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the 2018 f2 championship are all promoted to f1, George Russell to williams, Lando Norris to mclaren, and Alex Albon to toro rosso, and then red bull.

in 2020, 2nd place in the 2019 f2 championship, Nicholas Latifi is promoted to williams, while 1st place Nyck De Vries is promoted to formula e.

in 2021, 2020 f2 champion Mick Schumacher is promoted to haas, alongside 3rd place Yuki Tsunoda who is promoted to alpha tauri, and 5th place Nikita Mazepin who is also promoted to haas. 2nd place Callum Ilott was in talks with sauber but was never promoted, and instead raced in wec and indycar.

in 2022, 3rd place in the 2021 f2 championship Zhou Guanyu was promoted to sauber. 1st place Oscar Piastri was the reserve driver for Alpine, and 2nd place Robert Shwartzman has since done test work for ferrari and recently one his first race in wec.

in 2023, 2021 f2 champion Oscar Piastri was promoted to mclaren, alongside 2019 f2 champion Nyck De Vries being promoted to alpha tauri. 4th place in the 2022 f2 championship Logan Sargeant was promoted to williams, and 3rd place Liam Lawson was promoted to alpha tauri after Nyck was fired, and Daniel broke his wrist. 2022 f2 champion Felipe Drugovich became a reserve driver for aston martin, and 2nd place Théo Pourchaire continued in f2 for a second season.

in 2024 nobody was promoted to f1 at the beginning of the season, but current 7th place in the 2024 f2 championship Franco Colapinto was promoted to williams after they fired Logan. 2023 f2 champion Théo Pourchaire competed in the superformula championship, and got to do a couple of races for mclaren in indycar. 2nd place Frederick Vesti has been a test and reserve driver for mercedes.

basically every driver who has finished in the top two in f2 since 2015 was associated with a driver academy. the only two who weren't were Alex Rossi, did five races with marussia in 2015, and has since had a successful indycar career, and Artem Markelov, who as far as I can work out, no longer races.

for the most part, 1st and 2nd in f2 were promoted either the year after, or after having a year out. i think the bigger problem is the talent we have in formula one, and the lack of talent we have not moving on from the series. with only 10 teams, and 20 drivers, there is a limit, especially when we don't have many moving on.

there is also a problem with drivers being hired/kept on because they bring something. i.e. Checo bringing money as a Mexican driver, and Mazepin's dad sponsoring the team. then you have Zhou being hired in wake of the Chinese grand prix coming back, Logan being an American driver, with the americanisation of f1. and then there's Lance who's dad brought him a team.

and that's not me saying that they didn't achieve their seat on any merit, it's just an advantage that other drivers with similar results don't have.

i think Théo Pourchaire should have a chance in f1, and i say this as someone who was really rooting for Fred Vesti last year. If sauber don't keep Valtteri on for next year, I really hope they give Pourchaire a chance.

i am irritated at mercedes for promoting Kimi this early. it's nothing against Kimi, but if they really thought that Fred Vesti was good enough to keep him in their academy, and use him for testing and sim work this year, and to do free practices last year, why would they not give him a chance. he's proven himself to be a good driver, and it would have given Kimi a little more time to race in faster cars. In similar vein, livid at Toto for criticising James Vowles for not giving Mick a chance when he had the opportunity to do the same and failed to do so.

Felipe Drugovich is an interesting one for me. sure signing with aston martin is a choice, and with the current driver pairing, unlikely to get him anywhere. but he has chosen to stay and wait, even though other series have given him offers. for me, he'll either swoop in when Fernando retires again because the car is shit, or he'll wait too long and lose any opportunity to race anything.

Robert Shwartzman is an interesting one. He's been unlucky in the fact that at a point they would have been discussing him, Russia invaded Ukraine, and as he is Russian/Israeli, it probably didn't help his career. Still he remains ferrari's test/sim driver, and although it's unlikely that will get him a seat, it keeps him around. and with wec as well, and getting his first win, he is at least racing.

Callum Ilott was unlucky. he should have had the sauber seat in 21/22, but with the signing of Zhou, he missed out. I don't think he'll race in f1, but he's done well for himself regardless. with his stint in indycar, still pisses at how that ended, and in wec as well.

Nyck De Vries was smart. after not getting an f1 seat, he went to fe, won a championship, and as he raced with mercedes, it opened up chances in f1 for him. the biggest mistake he made, was signing with red bull. i can't imagine he couldn't have found enough fe drivers that were screwed over by red bull in one way or another. they really made a shit car, let him help with its development, and then fired him to let their second favourite child race.

i fear my point may have got lost somewhere, but almost every top two in f2 had a previous association with an f1 team or gained one after winning. at which point it is on the teams to promote the drivers they've deemed good enough to support through their junior career.

sure Kimi and Ollie may not be having the best year in f2, thanks prema for making a dogshit car, but they have a history, previous results that make them so sought after. Kimi's junior record is full of wins, and Ollie's performances in his rookie years in f3 and f2 have been more than enough to get people talking.

as for the currently leader. Isack Hadjar is a red bull junior, if he doesn't get a seat next year it's because red bull are too desperate to keep on their mid drivers instead of letting new talent have a chance. Liam Lawson should have had a seat this year, and if he doesn't next year, it's utterly crazy. same for Isack, he should be in that seat in the next two years, once red bull finally let go of Checo, and maybe even Daniel, but it's unlikely.

the academies are not ruining f2, f2 is just shit currently. what the academies do do is sponsor a large number of drivers, making it much easier for them to further their career.

i do believe something needs to be done to stop this collection of talent being funnelled to the top with nowhere for them to go, but i am too tired to sort that problem tonight.

thank you for listening to my rant!

[gimmigezz]

IL 26 APRILE 1937 I NAZIFASCISTI BOMBARDARONO GUERNICA RADENDOLA AL SUOLO E UCCIDENDO CENTINAIA DI CIVILI

 “Giunsi a Guernica alle 16 e 40 del 26 aprile. Feci appena in tempo a scendere dall’automobile che cominciarono a piovere le bombe. La gente era terrorizzata. Scappava abbandonando le bestie al mercato. I bombardamenti proseguirono fino alle 19 e 45. Per tutto questo tempo non ci furono nemmeno cinque minuti senza che il cielo non nereggiasse di aerei tedeschi. Scendevano a bassissima quota, le mitragliatrici devastavano i boschi e le strade, ai cui lati si stringevano donne, vecchi e bambini. Presto si levò un fumo denso che impediva di vedere oltre 400-500 metri. La città era avvolta dalle fiamme. Ovunque si levavano lamenti e la gente terrorizzata si inginocchiava alzando al cielo per implorare la protezione divina…Nella mia qualità di sacerdote cattolico io dichiaro che non si sarebbe potuto infliggere oltraggio più grande alla religione del Te Deum cantato in onore di Franco nella chiesa di Guernica, che era stata miracolosamente salvata dall’eroismo dei pompieri di Bilbao.”Con queste parole padre Alberto Onaida, agente diplomatico ufficioso delle Province basche a Parigi, descrive il bombardamento della città di Guernica operato dalla Legione Condor lunedì 26 aprile 1937. A guidare l’unità militare tedesca, mandata in appoggio ai soldati franchisti durante la Guerra Civile, Wolfram Von Richthofen, cugino del celebre “Barone Rosso”.I piloti al suo comando, insieme a quelli dell’Aviazione Legionaria, parte del contingente “volontario” che Mussolini aveva mandato in aiuto dell’amico Franco, uccisero un numero di persone compreso tra le 150 e le 1.500 (i dati a disposizione sono diversi) e distrussero completamente buona parte del centro abitato. L’attacco organizzato in tre ondate si dimostrò particolarmente devastante e a nulla servirono i modesti rifugi antiaerei approntati dalla popolazione. Va ricordato che Guernica all’epoca era piena di profughi che fuggivano dinanzi all’avanzata delle truppe di Franco. Si trattò di un esperimento che i tedeschi utilizzarono per capire quali conseguenze avrebbe avuto un bombardamento di quel tipo. Un “piccolo” antipasto di quello che poi avrebbero fatto durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. L’evento come si sa fu immortalato per sempre nella celebre opera di Picasso.

Cronache Ribelli

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[gregor-samsung]

“ La nostra Talbot scrostata scivolava lungo l’Autostrada del Sole prigioniera del caldo di Ferragosto. Sei ore dopo – invece delle tre impiegate dalle auto normali – eravamo a Pinarella di Cervia, in una pensioncina sull'Adriatico. Ci trovavamo lì per incontrare degli amici, probabilmente la sola altra rwandese sposata con un italiano in tutto il paese. «Tutti al mare, tutti al mare, a mostrar le chiappe chiare!», cantava papà come Pippo Franco nel film Ricchi, ricchissimi… praticamente in mutande. Con la scusa che non avevamo l’autoradio, papà si ostinò a cantarla per tutto il tragitto. Quella fu la nostra prima vacanza in famiglia. Contro la volontà dei miei, ero andata a letto la sera prima col mio bikini americano: rosso, bianco e blu. Dieci anni e quello era il primo costume da bagno che avessi mai posseduto. Incapace di dormire, cominciai a posare come Naomi Campbell davanti allo specchio. Eccitata quasi al punto di esplodere, gridai canzoni di Jovanotti e Cristina D’Avena come per annunciare a tutta la costa orientale il nostro arrivo imminente. Distesa sul letto, le gambe allungate sul muro, tamburellavo i piedi a ritmo di musica, la stanza dei miei dall'altra parte di quello stesso muro. Mio padre mi aveva avvertito non una, non due, ma ben tre volte. La sua voce più grossa a ogni minaccia. Lo sculaccione che seguì fu raffinato da un crescendo di schiaffi. «Il metodo Pestalozzi», lo chiamava lui. Ma neppure le guance gonfie e i lacrimoni riuscirono a incrinare la mia gioia.

Una volta arrivati, papà si trasformò. Come una creatura marina, sbocciò a contatto dell'acqua salata, le alghe e il sole. Ad anni luce di distanza dalle ciminiere, l’asfalto e i camion di casa. Chiudeva gli occhi, cadeva all'indietro e si lasciava trasportare via dalle onde. Non lo vidi mai così libero. E nonostante tutto, rifiutai di entrare in mare. Solo pochi minuti dopo che eravamo arrivati in spiaggia, un bagnante aveva estratto dall'acqua un ratto grosso quanto un cane e io ne fui traumatizzata. Ci vollero cinque giorni prima che mi azzardassi a mettere piede sul bagnasciuga. Era gelato e costellato di sassolini. Papà mi afferrò le mani e mi spinse dentro. «E se ci trovo un ratto?». «Non succederà, stai tranquilla», mi promise. «Ma io ho paura dell'acqua, è nera e non riesco a vedere niente!». «Abbi un po’ di fede, bambina mia». Quando l’acqua gli arrivò alla gola, prese un bel respiro e mi trascinò di sotto. Non si vedeva nulla, però riuscii a distinguere una medusa e i piedi sguazzanti di decine di natanti, giovani e anziani. Quando riaffiorammo in superficie, avevamo già oltrepassato le boe. E più ci spingevamo oltre, più la visibilità aumentava. Cozze, granchi, triglie. E spugne, gigli di mare, praterie di Posidonia. Un banco di sardine ci passò accanto, solleticandoci le caviglie. Papà mi tenne per mano, nuotando sempre più giù, fin dove l’ossigeno poté portarci. «Tornate indietro! Siete fuori di testa?». Il bagnino agitò furiosamente le braccia dalla torre di controllo. «Oltrepassare le boe prevede una multa salatissima». «Per una volta non sono io quello arrabbiato», disse papà ridendo, mentre nuotavamo verso la spiaggia. «Per una volta sai che vuol dire essere al posto mio». Mi lanciò uno sguardo pieno d’amore. Ma si trasformò presto in una tristezza ancora più profonda. Per lui, le due cose, erano diventate inseparabili. “

Marilena Umuhoza Delli, Negretta. Baci razzisti, Red Star Press (collana Tutte le strade), 2020.

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[justforbooks]

The reggae pioneer and record producer Jah Shaka, who has died suddenly in his late 60s, was a giant of the British sound system scene. In a career that lasted more than 55 years, he transformed the sound system landscape with a distinctive and idiosyncratic style, eschewing the dominant trends to focus exclusively on contemporary reggae that was spiritually uplifting and politically relevant, presenting the music as a means of inspiration and empowerment for the disenfranchised and oppressed.

At the many dances he held in diverse underground spaces, playing on an ancient and archaic Garrard turntable in a trance-like state, Shaka would chant messages of encouragement as well as exhortations of transcendent devotion to Rastafari, adding custom-built effects and live percussive elements to increase the dramatic tension.

Through his masterful use of components such as a pre-amp, a syndrum and a homemade siren box, he made the sessions visceral and immersive, boosting the subsonic bass frequencies at regular intervals to create a transportive and transformative experience. He reinforced this shamanistic persona by not revealing his given name or other details of his personal life.

An integral part of the black community of his home base in Lewisham, south-east London, during the late 1970s, Shaka deployed a sonic wizardry that made a dramatic impact on the post-punk music of Public Image Limited and the Slits, whose members were then among the few white attendees of his dances. Broader audiences became aware of his importance when he appeared in Franco Rosso’s evocative 1980 urban drama film Babylon, playing himself at a south London sound system session as the action draws to a climax.

Jamaican reggae subsequently underwent dramatic changes during the mid-80s as the dancehall style came to the fore, its output largely preoccupied with lasciviousness, violence and frivolity. British sound systems inevitably embraced the new style, but Shaka opted to become a lone voice in the wilderness that kept the roots reggae flame burning, advancing an up-tempo homegrown variant that became known as UK Steppers.

With a backing band he dubbed the Fasimbas after a local activist group established in response to the discriminatory treatment of black children in the British school system, from 1980 Shaka also produced original music with upcoming unknowns such as African Princess and Sister Audrey, as well as self-produced work.

He went on to produce reggae vocalists such as Bim Sherman, Johnny Clarke, the Twinkle Brothers, Max Romeo and Horace Andy, and released an impressive series of dub albums, including collaborative works with Aswad and Mad Professor. In the same period he ran a three-storey community hub in New Cross, known as the Culture Shop, which acted as a focal point for local black youth and housed a record store, a Caribbean food outlet and a Rastafari-oriented hair salon.

Although his record productions did not achieve much mainstream success, they were consistently popular with his core audience, and, more importantly, the uniqueness of his sound system would ultimately inspire acolytes such as Iration Steppas and Zion Train, as well as various sound system operators across the world.

Shaka spent his infant years in rural Clarendon, south Jamaica, before his parents moved the family to the UK in 1956 in search of betterment. They settled in south-east London, and it was while attending Samuel Pepys comprehensive school that he began an apprenticeship on the local soul sound system Freddie Cloudburst, beginning in 1968 as a “box boy”, helping to transport and set up the speaker boxes.

Later he ensured that the amplifiers and speakers were functioning properly, and finally became the resident selector to showcase work by Nina Simone, the Temptations, the Drifters, Diana Ross and other Motown acts. Then, after being inspired by activists such as Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Angela Davis, as well as his overarching Rastafari faith, he formed his own sound system in 1970, which he named Jah Shaka after the Zulu king.

Armed with exclusive dubplates and a powerfully commanding presence on the microphone, Shaka soon began building a name on the sound system underground, triumphing at many a sound clash. But along with the accolades came tensions with the police, who raided a dance he held in Brockley, south-east London, in 1975, beating attendees and damaging his equipment.

Undaunted, Shaka established a residency at Phebes nightclub in Stoke Newington, north London, in the late 70s, followed by another at Club Noreik in Tottenham, and was crowned the top sound system at the Black Echoes reggae awards in 1980 and 1981. His audience widened during the 90s, when he enjoyed a popular residency at the Rocket, adjoining the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University).

Shaka made his first pilgrimage to the African continent in 1984, and established the Jah Shaka Foundation in Ghana in 1992 to distribute medical supplies, library books and other materials to schools and medical clinics. He also undertook charitable works in Ethiopia, Jamaica and Kenya.

His extensive touring schedule took him throughout Europe and to Japan, Africa, Mexico and Peru. He became a regular festival headliner while mentoring his son, known as Young Warrior, who became a leading sound system practitioner and record producer in his own right.

Noted for his stamina and for presiding over all-night sessions without a break, Shaka continued to command large audiences at events in the UK and abroad.

He is survived by his extended family.

🔔 Jah Shaka, sound system owner and record producer, born circa 1954; died 12 April 2023

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[roseillith]

THE MANGROVE NINE (1973) dir. FRANCO ROSSO

[eveninginparis]

Babylon (1980) dir. Franco Rosso

[videoreligion]

Hitch-Hike (1977)

[frenchcurious]

Franco Mello & Guido Drocco (Nés en 1945 & 1942) Porte-manteau dit « Rosso Cactus » - 2010. - source Artcurial

[positivexpectedvalue]

Museo di Palazzo Rosso, Genova, Italy, 1953-61. Franco Albini, architect

[scorcidipoesia]

Aspettando che il tuo braccio si alzi

A scacciare la notte.

A fare risorgere il rosso.

Franco Buffoni