JAN 2021 #08.01 M A G A Z I N E featuring ROOTS. MAD CHRONICLE PROFESSOR ROCK. RESPECT. BLACK ARTISTS FUND EVAFLOW RELEASES. NICENESS RAS ATTITUDE NICK SEFAKIS REMIX. DAVID CAIROL JUNIOR KELLY DUBMATIX NGA HAN & THE HI-FLYERS WAR, PEACE & DUB IRIEMAG.COM MERCH. The ‘I’fficial IRIE Hoodie Available at https://www.iriemag.com/apparel/ ISSUE #08.01 / JANUARY 2021 “ Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. Nicholas ‘Nico’ Da Silva aka ZOOLOOK Founder/Editor in Chief, IRIE IRIEMAG.COM IRIE. EDITOR’S NOTE WELCOME JANUARY 2021 Yes, I! Our January 2021 edition of IRIE™ is here celebrating Volume 8 + Number 1 40 years of Dub with the one and only, Mad Professor! FOLLOW Use your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch In our RESPECT feature, we welcome reggae artists Niceness, @IrieMag to follow IRIE on Apple News. Evaflow, David Carol, Nick Sefakis, Nga Han & The Hi-Flyers, EDITOR + ART DIRECTOR + PUBLISHER and Junior Kelly. Nicholas Da Silva Our ROOTS feature previews Dread & Alive: Duppy Conqueror, [email protected] the one-shot comic book series from ZOOLOOK, which is now ADVERTISING + MARKETING + IRIE PR available for pre-order, while our ROCK feature introduces Michelle Monreal Black Artists Fund (BAF), whose goal is to close the gap that [email protected] Black artists face in beginning and sustaining their art careers. CUSTOMER SERVICE Our RELEASES feature presents Ras Attitude and his latest IRIE™ Magazine single, ‘Warrior Status’, while our REMIX feature presents an P.O. Box 640806 IRIE collaboration with Dubmatix... ‘War, Peace and Dub’... the San Francisco, CA 94164 REMIX Contest! +1 415 729 4709 [email protected] As always, we thank you for supporting Reggae music! IRIE PR IRIE iriemag.com/irie-pr PUBLISHER SUBMISSIONS www.zoolook.com ON THE COVER: PHOTOGRAPHY BY: iriemag.com/submissions MAD PROFESSOR Richard Aldred SUBSCRIPTIONS IRIEMAG.COM 40 YEARS OF DUB @richardaldred iriemag.com/subscribe TABLE OF CONTENTS ROOTS. ROCK. REGGAE. Dread & Alive Black Artists Fund Mad Professor Duppy Conqueror Amplifying Black Artists 40 Years of Dub RESPECT. RELEASES. REMIX. Kindah IRIE on Spotify - January 2021 Dubmatix Niceness Ras Attitude - Warrior Status War, Peace & Dub IRIEMAG.COM JAM ROOTS. DREAD & ALIVE DUPPY CONQUEROR ROOTS. DREAD & ALIVE DUPPY CONQUEROR On February 6, 2021, ZOOLOOK will officially release the long-awaited Dread & Alive: Duppy Conqueror, a one-shot comic book issue to the masses. Originally written as a short story, the one-shot comic book FOLLOW chronicles Philip’s life as a Duppy Conqueror. ZOOLOOK A direct descendant of the Jamaican Maroons, Philip’s lineage traces back to the Ashanti people of the Gold Coast of Africa, present-day Ghana. Featured Single The Cultural Anthropologist is a local legend in the rural areas on Jamaica’s island. When darkness falls, he is often called upon to perform a Duppy Conqueror’s duties and cast out evil spirits. The locals refer to him as ‘fo-yeyed’ (four-eyed). Like his son, Drew, Philip McIntosh was gifted with second sight. When he came into the world, he was born with a caul over his face. Many people believe that a child born this way possesses the extraordinary power to see into the spirit world. Such a child not only can see spirits but can also converse with them. Trod January 6, 2019 Philip’s gift (and curse) earned him the name Duppy Conqueror. For Philip, benevolent and malevolent WEBSITE spirits, including the spirits of the dead, continuously inhabited his world. dreadandalive.com Philip’s use of Myal focused on the connection between humans and the spirit world. But like the Obeah Man, he also operated in the same sphere of spiritual and herbal knowledge. IRIEMAG.COM SYNOPSIS Seven-year-old Drew McIntosh is awaken by a late-night call to his famous father, local legend and Duppy Conqueror, Philip McIntosh. A young girl named Brandy is being FOLLOW held captive by a malicious duppy and ZOOLOOK Philip McIntosh is the only one who can save her. Release Date: February 6, 2021 Imprint: ComiXstand Format: Full Color, 32 pages; One Shot (includes mp3 and 18 x 12 Foldout Poster) Genre: Supernatural Horror ISBN: 978-0-9830637-8-0 Cover Price: $10.00 IRIE invites you to pre-order your copy of Dread & Alive: Duppy Conqueror from our MERCH store today. WEBSITE dreadandalive.com IRIEMAG.COM USA ROCK. BLACK ARTISTS FUND AMPLIFYING BLACK ARTISTS IRIEMAG.COM ROCK. BLACK ARTISTS FUND AMPLIFYING BLACK ARTISTS The Black Artists Fund was started by Sacramento Black creatives to address inequity in arts funding. Through micro and small grant-giving, Black Artists Fund’s goal is to close the gap that Black artists face DONATE in beginning and sustaining their art careers. Black Artists Fund With funding, Black artists can expound on their creative practice with new ideas, larger-scale works, innovative experimentation, community projects, and overall, an increased capacity to produce culturally relevant work. Donations are collected from patrons of the arts, organizations, philanthropists, collectors, and anyone else that understands the value in establishing and sustaining an environment for Black creative production. Black Artists Fund was launched by Faith McKinnie, a local independent art collector and curator on June 11, 2020 with an initial goal of $10,000. Within a few days, the fund exceeded its goal and has received over $25,000 in donations from over 250 individuals. As the founding director of Black Artists Fund, Faith’s work is rooted in the prioritization and centering of artists from the margins. As a community engagement coordinator at Crocker Art Museum, an art consultant, independent curator, and patron, she believes in the transformative power of diverse, WEBSITE equitable, accessible, and inclusive art. blackartistsfund.org On December 4, 2020, Black Artists Fund awarded $22,000 to 26 Black artists in its second round of funding. See the full list of Winter 2020 Grantees: https://www.blackartistsfund.org/winter2020grantees IRIEMAG.COM LIST OF GRANTS Sower $2,000+ aims to support Sacramento-based Black artists whose work exhibits exceptional power and potential and help further their artistic practice, including developing new ideas, starting a new project, and/or completing an existing project. Cultivation $750-$1,000 aims to support Sacramento-based Black artists who demonstrate exceptional FOLLOW creative ability and potential with marketing/publicity costs, supplies/materials needed for the execution Black Artists Fund of a project and direct administrative expenses. Branch $500 aims to support Black artists based outside Sacramento who demonstrate exceptional creative ability and potential with marketing/publicity costs, supplies/materials needed for the execution of a project and direct administrative expenses. Seed (up to $500) aims to support Sacramento-based Black artists at an early stage of their career development and continue their important work. Germination $100 aims to support Sacramento-based Black youth artists under the age of 18 develop new work or complete an existing art project. IRIE Magazine supports Black Artists Fund and encourages fine, applied, and creative artists using all mediums to apply. IRIE also invites you to support Black Artists Fund with a donation by visiting their GoFundMe page at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/blackartistsfund WEBSITE blackartistsfund.org FOLLOW BLACK ARTISTS FUND IRIEMAG.COM MERCH. ‘I’fficial Dread & Alive Logo Tee Available at https://www.iriemag.com/dread-and-alive/ GBR REGGAE. MAD PROFESSOR 40 YEARS OF DUB IRIEMAG.COM REGGAE. MAD PROFESSOR 40 YEARS OF DUB Photography by: Richard Aldred So, just how sane is the Mad Professor? On the content of his character and the results of his recordings, he is one of the sanest record producers. To understand the sanity of Mad Professor, we have to go back to FOLLOW his early childhood. Mad Professor Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser (1955) was born in Guyana, a small country in the northern part of South America. As a child, there wasn’t’ much technology around. The only thing in his house with technology Featured Album was a light bulb and a radio. One day Neil asked his mother, “how does the light bulb work?” She said she didn’t know and that he should go to the library and get a book, which he did. Neil went to the library and got a book. He then asked her what is the man doing inside the radio? She said there’s no man inside the radio. Neil replied, yes, there is. Sometimes he talks, and sometimes he sings. She said, “Look, there’s no man in the radio.” So one day, when she went to work, Neil took a screwdriver and went to the back of the radio and opened it up and said, “Oh, she was right. There’s no man in the radio.” Instead, there were resistors, capacitors and 40 Years of Dub dials, and all sorts of things. When she returned home, the back was still off the radio, so she told him to go October 15, 2020 to the library and learn about the radio. So Neil went to the library and got a book, and he taught himself WEBSITE electronics and built a radio before the age of 11. ariwa.com Neil would earn his nickname, Mad Professor, from his friends at school, amazed by the experiments he carried out as a youth. You could say that his curiosity as a child set him on a path to Dub Madness! IRIEMAG.COM Having built a radio and telephone system at the age of 10 years, it was no surprise that his interest and subsequent career in electronics, along with a love of Motown, Philadelphia International, Treasure Isle, and music of all types, propelled him onward.