(Pronounced taft-ka) Tftka- vocals, guitar, (bass, drums, winds,etc.)- known also as daggakarab ..
King D.-bass(drums, percussion)...
Influences
The record collection of Grandad-Ralston Webber (Sherwood Forest); the ambience of DadandMom- Greaves(Al & Lena, Catadupa and Buff Bay): CLARA WARD and the Famous Ward Singers, Millie Pace Trio, Brook Benton, Sam Cooke, Nat King Cole,HARRY BELAFONTE-Marshall Kelly, WALTER ARTIES, DOO WOP; ERROLL GARNER, Jim Reeves, Chet Atkins,ROGER MILLER, Willie Nelson;the Dixie Hummingbirds,Tom Jones, Tom Jobim,JAMES BROWN,Gamble and Huff, Stevie Wonder, the Impressions, CURTIS MAYFIELD, HIGHWAY QCs, 70s Funk and SOUL, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Third World, Aswad, Black Slate, Steel Pulse, Beatles, the Zombies,LOUIS ARMSRTONG,Bim sherman,Ron Carter, Ray Charles, DUKE ELLINGTON,HENRY MANCINI,COUNT BASIE, Joe Williams, BETTY CARTER,Abbey Lincoln, Carmen McCrae, Mel Torme, Sinatra, SUGAR MINOTT, , John Holt, Coleman Hawkins,Charlie Parker, Jon Hendricks, King Pleasure,Thelonious Monk, Brian Eno,Lonnie Liston Smith,Jimi Hedrix, Lightnin' Hopkins ... VOICE, Good RADIO ...so - called 'World Music',MENTO, SKA, POP, ROCK, BLUES, SOUL, FUNK, REGGAE, BOP,MODERN, CLASSICAL, GOSPEL, Country, PUNK, AMBIENT, music; and other loving spiritual people,ital livity (original), tao, zen, vegan culture,trees, Dead Can Dance, Gothic, DUB JAZZ, COOPERATION;art; ARVO PART; 'Non-Conformist 'composers; listening habits are eclectic, in other words... WILLIE DIXON, Sensational Nightingales; Joseph Hill's CULTURE; so many....
Sounds Like
Blues Reggae; Soul Rock; Jazz Dub; Ambient Ska... Eclectic melodies with grooves which encourage repeated listening /feeling: shape-shifting syncopations ...
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e-mail daggakarab@juno.com
Inspired By The ORIGINAL MUSIC of: Blues, Jazz, Soul, Reggae, Rock, postPunk, Experimental; myriad SOUNDS from around our planet.... Reading, Poetry , " THE CD In Light: Five Signs is available through CD Baby...http://cdbaby.com/cd/daggakarab
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Poet, musician, songwriter Tftka Dawidalle. Ska, Mento, and Rhythm $ Blues, and amalgamation of other world music, Tft learned to walk and talk in England (Trowbridge, London, Bath) where his Grandfather, Ralston Ferdinand Webber's ( Sherwood Forest) 45s / 33s records, and the telley, and radio exposed him to great singer songwriters such as Brook Benton, Nat King Cole, the Beatles, Jim Reeves, Sam Cooke, etc.
Emigrating to America with his parents, when R&B became Soul, Tft has been a devout respecter of the art of sound.
In 1985 Tftka assumed the moniker 'daggakarab', to be an easel from which to express - alone or with others- collective musical and dramatic intent. Love, nature, wholeness, personal transformation, are themes recurring.
guitar, often aid and abet this dreamer....
Many thanks indeed family for a love positive afritude good vibration Keep up great work Never give it up More exhilarating moment of success Hastily blessings More Jahful love rastafarI irie bless Ras Dumisani
Hey hows it going. Hope is well. I was wondering if you would like to have a free album? You can get it at http://www.megaupload.com/?f=3NNQTYF1 I would love to know what you think
Please check out the new Dubblestandart Album feat. Ari Up & Lee Scratch Perry!!
"Return from Planet DUB" is available as two-CD deluxe digipak set and comes also with the surprisingly and rare appearance by film director David Lynch, plus remixes by G-Corp, Rob Smith (both UK), and the US Subatomic Sound, and others on the second disc.
OUT NOW! Buy it on I-Tunes, Amazon or your local record shop!
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