Entertainment
Buju Banton Live - new book from the Gargamel
By Basil Walters, Observer staff reporter
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Ace deejay, Buju Banton whose utterances at the recent launch of his latest album Rasta Got Soul, created a raging controversy, is working on his first book, scheduled to hit the stands later this year.
It will be a coffee-table book called Buju Banton Live. The upcoming book will be in no way as provocative as the Gargamel's assertion to the effect that the world's fixation on Bob Marley is hurting the growth of reggae music.
"We have a book coming scheduled for a fall release entitled Buju Banton Live, and it is a coffee-table book," revealed the president of Gargamel Music Inc, Tracii McGregor. "It consists of live photographs with Buju Banton performing over the last three or four years. A coffee-table book is a larger formated book that essentially you don't necessarily put it on your bookshelf, you put it on your coffee table so that when folks they come over and visit you, they got something to look at, browse through," explained McGregor.
She said the book, which will be published by Buju Banton's recording company Gargamel Music, is being designed by top designer and director for Esquire Magazine, Dale Crooks with photographs provided by internationally renowned photographer Jonathan Mannion.
"We worked with an amazing photographer Jonathan Mannion.... he is a huge fan of Buju Banton. He and Buju really got a great rapport," McGregor told the Observer. "We spent a lot of time with Jonathan. We used his images for (the albums) Too Bad as well as Rasta Got Soul," she added.
She stated that over the last four years Mannion has shot Buju live extensively. "The photographer captured the artiste's performances in such a way that anyone who is a Buju fan would want to have. It is a bit more tangible than a T-shirt. He is an intense performer and these images really captured in first-class way this world-class performer. And it is being designed by a famed designer, Dale Crooks, who has designed all of Gargamel's artwork. packaging. everything from day one."
McGregor said the album, Rasta Got Soul, which was released to coincide with the 43rd anniversary of Haile Selassie I's three-day state visit to Jamaica in 1966, is already enjoying tremendous response. "The responses are really phenomenal. People always say you never know what to really expect next from him (Buju Banton), and they never really saw this coming," she chuckled.
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