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Mystic Bowie in action - Contributed
The crowd was not large but the impact created among the mix of locals and visitors with the fusion of the media was sufficient to execute a rather impressive album launch for Mystic Bowie, a roots singer who believes that all he really need in life is his music.
The Rasta man who hails from Lacovia in St Elizabeth is highly travelled and wants to return home but not without a new album. Hence, he launched it at the Negril Escape, One Love Boulevard Negril and what an event it was.
His new album which happens to be his second is titled Nevah Kiss And Tell and this title track is complimented by 15 other solidly arranged and performed pieces which are all more of the cultural roots flavour bringing out the mind of this artiste. His first album was Rebirth. They are all available for digital downloads.
The launch saw Mystic Bowie performing several songs from the album, including the title track Nevah Kiss And Tell, Mama, Drug Of Choice and Free which featured Professor Nuts in the recording.
The performance of Mystic Bowie was backed by Sane Band and before doing Drug of Choice, he explains that he lives what he teaches in this song. "Music is my drug of choice, so I need nothing else," the singer said.
For this album, Mystic Bowie teamed up with other recognised artistes for some of the songs. These include Professor Nuts and Jah Screw Driver from Jamaica, also Jen Durkin and Christine Tambakis of the United States. These guest performers featured on the album are working with Bowie on his Funky Ska Music Label.
He travelled from the United States for the album launch with a large contingent of stakeholders in his career and among them was his manager, Jay Stollman, who himself is a singer of Funk and R&B. In fact, Mystic Bowie said that he discovered Stollman, he (Stollman) was singing at a club.
Stollman is the singer of the theme song for Sex in the City shown on HBO but spends a lot of time now promoting and producing Mystic Bowie who he says has a positive impact on the overseas audience.
He explains that Mystic Bowie is a man of kindness who always give back to society, saying that he always give a hundred per cent of himself. "If he gets back a fraction of what he gives, he would be a very successful man," Stollman said, adding the importance of launching the album in Jamaica where Bowie is from.
Born in Lacovia, he is a direct descendant from a Maroon tribe and while he was named Fitzroy Alexander Campbell, the elders of the tribe named him Mystic Bowie based on powers they discerned in him.
He started writing songs, performing and recording at age seven and when he was 13, he made his overseas debut and despite his many travels, he never departed from his core tribal values which include no alcohol, drugs nor impurities which pollute the body.
Mystic Bowie has been appearing on big stages in the United States and Canada and the standard of his performances has earned him a role in a short film which is being done to enter the Okanagan Film Festival. He will be heading off to British Columbia, Canada, to shoot this film, starting December 1.
