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Planet Jam
Reggae / Ska / Dub

World Roots Rock Reggae



Tucson, Arizona
United States

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Member Since2/19/2007
Band Websitewww.planetjam.tv
Band Members

Planet Jam - "It's Open" Live at The Tribal Visions Festival in Taos NM 07-2009


Planet Jam " Defiant " Live at The Tucson Earth First Benefit in May 2009

Marius Todirita -Guitar and Vocals
Marius


Kacy Todirita - Bass and Vocals
Kacy


Kini Wade - Drums
Kini


Stevie Abramson - Keyboards and Vocals
Stevieman


Cecil Carter - Percussion
Sesi

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Planet Jam brings the world to its shows
November 26, 2008 Tucson Arizona
OTTO ROSS
Tucson Citizen

The members of the local "world jam reggae" band, Planet Jam, come from different backgrounds and cultures but all share one powerful passion: music.

Guitarist/vocalist Marius Todirita, bass/vocalist Kacy Todirita, drummer Kini Wade and keyboardist/vocalist Stevie Abramson will share their eclectic global backgrounds in an international fusion of cultural music and worldly awareness this Friday at The Hut.

In a recent e-mail interview, Todirita discusses the band's roots, its University of Arizona connection and how he outsmarted censors in Romania.

Q: What got you into playing music and when did you start?

A: I started playing guitar and singing when I was 10 years old in the Socialist Republic of Romania. Communist political screening censored most music, and there was some contraband music smuggled in from the West, but not enough for my demand, so I provided my own uncensored music by playing my guitar. We usually had to show our lyrics to some comrade before we could play anything on stage. I was persecuted for breaking the rule and playing AC/DC and Rolling Stones tunes at my last high school dance. We generally played a lot of instrumentals.

How did your band come together?

When the Berlin Wall came down, I was finally able to travel. I went west to Italy and was busking in the streets of Bologna where I met Kacy, who was also traveling with a guitar. We fell in love and we've made music together ever since. She's been playing bass since 1999, when we put out our first CD, "Tribal Healing." We've been jamming in this configuration since September 2007 when Kini Wade joined on drums and Steven Abramson playing keyboards.

From where do you draw your inspiration?

We are a multinational, multiethnic, multiracial group, so we draw from that diversity and try to remain as objective and universal in our unifying approach. We listen to a lot of diverse music. I try to put a positive, transcendental outlook on subjects that most people can relate to in current society. It's important to be aware, and music is a vehicle for awareness to become instantly contagious on a mass scale.

How would you describe your style of music?

Concisely, I would call it world jam reggae. We use roots elements like ancient Romanian Gypsy riffs with traditional roots reggae beats and take it all into a dub infused electric jam.

Where did the name Planet Jam come from?

The name came at a time when we had a more geographically diverse show in 1999, when the point of the performance was to sing in as many languages as possible and musically travel around the planet on a genuine cultural experience.

How did you end up in Tucson?

I married Kacy, our bass player, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1993. She's a UA architecture graduate who has a lot of friends here. We now have two children, so we settled in the warmer side of our previous nomadic route.

Where do you most like to play music?

I like to play outdoors. There's a revolutionary aspect in our message and it feels good to bring it to the street like in California's summer music festivals. I loved playing on the beach on the Romanian Black Sea coast last summer, too. Here in Tucson, we like to play at The Hut on Fourth Avenue.

Money? Fame? Fortune? What are your goals for the future?

I'm going to keep writing music and share my gift with the people because it's my calling. Money is what's needed to produce and deliver music. Fame is what brings people to the show. Fortune is needed for magical elements to fall into place and provide catalytic support for the ignition and launch of unique time and space moments into the multidimensional universe when consciousness accelerates friction-free for leap years in a second. We intend to keep the new music flowing in and to keep performing, make some nice videos and book some good shows.

InfluencesBob Marley, Midnite, Israel Vibes, Easy Allstars, Zappa, Santana, Goran Bregovic, Traditional Romanian music
Sounds LikeGypsy Ska, Dub, and Roots Reggae
Here's our Live in Romania CD at CDBaby.com:



Marius and Mae Ploy's Seven Generations CD:
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Here's a podcast link for Planet Jam's Live Radio Show on Community Supported KXCI.ORG 91.3 FM Tucson from 9/28/2009 : http://www.kxci.org/localsonly/podcast/podcast-09282009.mp3

-- Planet Jam - The Riot - N E W 2008 V I D E O
About the 1989 Revolution in Romania - - - ON TV IN ROMANIA




Planet Jam's Short How did it Start Story:
For a few years in the nineties, when Marius Todirita was an illegal alien in Italy, Kacy Armstrong was hitchiking, working, and then driving across Europe in an English ambulance with a sketchpad, a guitar, a few human friends and an Irish Wolfhound named Monte, so space was tight but there was written on the ceiling: "There's always room and never a problem."
They had met before while busking in the streets of other Italian towns, both being guitarists claiming to be from Arizona. After an eclipse of the moon in Rome, they began to make beautiful music together.
Years later in Tucson Arizona, it's a fusion of Eastern and Western music and culture called Planet Jam. Reggae rhythms and Gypsy licks, dubby and tight, rock with ancient tap roots.
Planet Jam lyrics are about experiences that Marius had in the Romanian Army as a draftee Private during that country's 1989 revolution and concepts like seven generation awareness, freedom of expression and illegal alien issues.
In September 2007, Kini Wade joined the band on the drums, and Steven Abramson (from Living Earth and Woody Harelson) on the keyboards. Highly skilled on their instruments, they add another half a century of music experience to the mix.



THE PRESS :

Saturday, October 11th 2008,
Tucson Weekly
"Tucson's finest straight-up reggae band ...
...Traditional, with a social conscience."

Wednesday, July 9th 2008,
RENASTEREA BANATEANA, Nr. 5623 TIMISOARA ROMANIA

"From Arizona, to Timisoara"

..."Planet Jam is considered to be emblamatic of the new fusion between eastern and western cultures."

Monday, July 14th 2008, AGENDA TIMISOARA - ROMANIA (in Romanian) http://www.agenda.ro/news/print/9072/ritmuri-reggae-cu-planet-jam.html

Reggae Rhythms with Planet Jam

"Saturday night on the terrace of the Cafe Papillon, music lovers and the people that just happened to be passing by had the opportunity to enjoy a very special event: The music of American band Planet Jam, with a mix of roots reggae combined with Balcanic sounds and other goodies.
Above all, one of the most surprising things which everyone could see was the ease with which the band came before the audience. The fussiness and other such things which unfortunately are often present at the shows played by Romanian musicians, were completely absent.
The band has its roots in our country and their music represents a fusion between east and west with reggae, gypsy, rock and roots influences.
... It was an interesting and very special concert which left a question hanging in the air - Why don't we have any other reggae bands in our country?"


LUPAMEA.RO
Weekly newspaper from CRAIOVA ROMANIA

http://www.lupamea.ro/articole.php?numar=2&rubrica=1&id=2249

Planet Jam: Reggae and Dub - Romanian American Version
Fans of Jamaica straight from Arizona Live at Play
by Cosmin Stoian

"Sunday night is a discouraging moment for the people that have to go to work the next day. But Play organised a concert, sticking to trouble just like velcro would on the hair of the singer.
The 13th is an unlucky day for old women who believe in superstitions, but not for the customers of Play,to whom reggae band Planet Jam induced a wonderful state of optimism and relaxation, 'cause that how reggae is. A joint was missing for the recipe to be complete. The song "Jamming" by Bob Marley, covered by Planet Jam arrived just like a full tank of gas when you have no money but you want to go to the beach. It put an automatic smile on everybody's faces...


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8 MINUTES TO BURN

8 MINUTES TO BURN



Nov 6 2009 10:29 PM

Key Ingredients of African Soul

Key Ingredients of African Soul



Nov 5 2009 3:14 AM

This Saturday at The Hut with SKITN
 
Mutant Bass

Mutant Bass



Nov 5 2009 12:11 AM

whut up!!! how's everything in here? hope all is well with life and music!

it's been a while!

hope your finding time to yourself! take it easy!

---posido
www.mutantbass.com
Alexander Khodchenko

Alexander Khodchenko



Oct 30 2009 1:00 AM

Greetings from Kiev Psychedelic!
Greenhouse Productions

Greenhouse Productions



Oct 29 2009 3:42 PM



Hey now!

This Saturday night we are throwing a Halloween Party at the Orpheum with Yin Yang and Zen Some. Sedona superfreaks Yin Yang and Zen Some know how to throw a party. Its actually impossible to convince them not to dress up in costumes during the 364 days of the year that are not Halloween. That's why we thought that they would be a particularly appropriate band to play Halloween. YYZS plays a an eclectic mix of music, focusing on 80s songs that don't suck (think New Wave, Talking Heads, etc...). So put on your freakiest outfit and come down to the Orpheum to dance. Bwahahahahaha!

The show is all ages, ONLY $5, and starts at 9pm.

Also coming up soon:
11/4 Minus the Bear with The Antlers and Twin Tiger @ Orpheum-All Ages
11/14 An Evening with Hot Buttered Rum @ Orpheum-All Ages (A GREENBUILD GREENSTREETS Event see www.usgbcaz.org/northern/greenstreets for more information. )
11/17 Misfits with Hour of the Wolf, Moonlight Howlers, and Awaken the Nightmare @ Orpheum-All Ages
12/2 Voodoo Glow Skulls with Fayuca @ Downtown Greenhouse-All Ages
1/17 John Gorka @ Coconino Center for the Arts-All Ages
2/15 Badfish, a Tribute to Sublime @ Orpheum-All Ages
4/23 Greg Brown @ Orpehum-All Ages

For more info visit us at www.greenhouseproductions.net

See you at the Show!
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Oct 27 2009 8:42 PM





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Oct 27 2009 6:53 PM

Yes please stop by Wednesday and we can chat/meet in person!

-tim
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Oct 21 2009 7:44 AM

The NextDoor - Ne mai gandim (in premiera pe apropo.ro)


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Delroy Washington

Delroy Washington



Oct 20 2009 11:30 PM

Divine Greetings: Keep faithful Keep in touch. My new music will uplift
you. I absolutely guarantee that you will not be disappointed. In fact
I seriously believe that you will be utterly surprised. I have been
testing some of the songs out playing them to almost everyone I have
come in touch with and...(no hype) everyone gave me the most positive
response. So keep holding on a little more. The strategy has to be
right. This music must be given time to breathe. I will be launching
things real soon. A little different but thunderous. Are you ready to
dance? Waith for it. Reggae rules OK. One Love. Spread the word...wait
for it! Do you Love Reggae? Keep on Loving it.
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Oct 10 2009 5:31 PM

It's a great honor for us to open the show for the internationally-renowned Toubab Krewe at Plush on Wednesday, October 14 with special guest Adama Dembele.


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Oct 9 2009 9:27 AM

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Oct 7 2009 4:10 PM

Greetings! Thanks for the ideas and support. I was thinking all his friends could write some memories and send to me, and I will post them in the blog. Photos too, also the songs you did with him. Much Love, Nancy
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Sep 30 2009 10:35 AM





Planet Jam

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Sep 30 2009 12:25 AM

Here's a podcast link for our Live Radio Show on KXCI.ORG 91.3 FM Tucson from 9/28/2009 :    http://www.kxci.org/localsonly/podcast/podcast-09282009.mp3
SKITN

SKITN



Sep 29 2009 7:55 AM

Hey guys (and gal), 

Caught you on KXCI tonight. Nice work and interesting stories. Also saw you at The Hut last weekend. Keep doin' what you love. Tucson scene needs more reggae and groove influenced rock!! Take it easy, and Keep it SKITN!!!!
8 MINUTES TO BURN

8 MINUTES TO BURN



Sep 23 2009 5:14 AM

Still digging those gypsy reggae serenades. Keep it up, Big up.
Kevin
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Sep 22 2009 2:50 PM

Thank you for the friendship!

Hope all is wonderful and

well in your world. Please

take good care and

enjoy ...
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King Roach and His Pests!!!777



Sep 19 2009 3:41 AM

SOON COME

JAH BLESS!!!777
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The Cellar {Where All Bands Get Paid!}



Sep 4 2009 11:07 PM

Here is the flyer for "the Cellar" show

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Sep 2 2009 8:53 PM

BLESSED
Project Bluebird

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Aug 12 2009 2:47 AM

ahh so nice to hear you. i am determined to make a myspace page for rey. i gotta turn the cd to mp3.do you have mp3s of him? i can run the page if you want. it would be niice. that agave drum btw helped me out a great deal lately. with love, nancy
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Bassirima Soro



Aug 9 2009 6:34 AM

We're looking forward for Friday at The Hut
ONE LOVE FESTIVAL

ONE LOVE FESTIVAL



Jul 30 2009 8:38 AM

Give thanks, and have a blessed time in ro :)
Brum Conspiracy

Brum Conspiracy



Jun 22 2009 8:04 AM

hello :)
we're waiting for you guys!
lots of love

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