Damo The Dub -.Up Front

.Hell And Barbados.. new album by Damien Dempsey

Review By Paul McCann
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Producer & Presenter -
Craic With Mc –
.Irish Radio -Highland FM -
P.O. Box 214 , Bowral , 2576
NSW , Australia

Review By Paul McCann – .
Producer & Presenter - Craic With Mc –
.Irish Radio -Highland FM -
P.O. Box 214 , Bowral , 2576

Damiens Dempesy’s has had some explosive songs on his previous albums Shots and The Contender .

His latest album entitled Hell And Barbados is brilliant . A lot more dynamite has been packed into the lyrical content on this latest offering from Damo .The songs on the album says a lot about being Irish in an unjust world ..
.. There is something beautifully .proudly about this artist and his work .
.Thanks Damo we need to hear more of the same from people today in the music business .
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Track 1 - Massai - Freedom is the key here and Damo's vocals rise above charimatically . There is a lot of spirituality pouring out from Massai .
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Track 2 - .Kilburn Stroll . Soulful and very much a story of the young victim
of love in a hard place . A good line for a song ..Summer In My Heart and the .title track . I'll have another listen to the album later .

Track .3. I like the message and the feel of this one. How Strange . The song lyrics rolls . from the edge of Damos .tongue like a whip cracking the strokes of justice for mans injustice . Its confronting greed and provocations seed planted by huge corporations tions that bleed the poor and innocent dry . There is a passion in this number that gives insight to why we the Irish can relate to the suffering of others in this world because of our very own ethos sand identity in our history.
Track 4 .This piece Chase The Light is a song of hope and encouragement in the darkness that can surround us in this life .

Track 5- You Pretty Smile - Here is a smart number . Somewhere I get a feeling of madness and innocene wearing a disguise . There is a warm presence of Damo reaching out to grab you here . .imagry ..nice touch Back streets and low life.

Track 6 - Wow ..This track is really Serious . Up we go heading fast downhill all the way to the pit on this one .Who else but the brave Damo could have put such strength to the serious issue that has riddled the world with the manic and paranoic effects of hard drugs . The devil has cursed todays young innocent society with a quagmire of sick fruits rotting away in the heads of his .victims where there is no .escape , But in the song Damo has a. message of hope in the intervention and. plea for angelic intervention .

Track 7- Teachers 3.Yes indeed Bob Marley must have been Irish ! Damo's ability to swing an Irish Reggae number is unique and never before done . Brilliant .

Track 8- Summers In My Heart - This is a beautiful song about lifes journey -Love is alive and off we go on the train together . I love the thinking on this one - . A song to be soaked up entirely into the corners of the soul.. Relax and know summers in the heart and soul forever . Damo's soulful and emotive singing lends a strength only a true romantic could ever achieve .

Track. 9 The Title track - Most powerfully a modern classic and the best track I've heard as yet on the album .The number travels between the highs and lows of the desperate situations .. suffering exiles and lost souls have had to endure on that road back home to hell or Barbados .To Belfast or Bust . To heaven or hell .. whereever we have been hurled in this world of turmoil.and strife.. indeed this song cuts through the chains of slavery only the hurt and oppressed have endured .
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Track 10- On the final track on this album Damo runs along the wide and even wild side of the. techno City ..kicking and screaming every step of the way in a mix of potent lyrics rapping madly on the door of tomorrow ..echoes of yesterday still resounding in the threshold as the song cries its goodbye fade away to where we are going .in a future City somehwere in transit between hell and Barbados .'
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By Paul McCann

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