{"id":818,"date":"2023-05-08T10:17:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T10:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/?p=818"},"modified":"2023-05-08T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T10:17:40","slug":"jah-shaka-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/archives\/818","title":{"rendered":"Jah Shaka R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For many of us the first time we saw Jah Shaka was in the climactic soundclash scene in Babylon. It was sad to hear that he had passed away recently at the age of 69. Like a lot of people, the scene in the film led me to check out his records and attend his dances over many years. An education in itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many tributes have followed the tragic news, but I was especially struck by this lovely artwork in Stockwell by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CrgmpcGoxtv\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">owe1.art<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CrfTpMCIQkt\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">nando_rampageproductionmachine<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.05.06.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.05.06-1024x765.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.05.06-1024x765.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.05.06-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.05.06-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.05.06-401x300.png 401w, https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.05.06.png 1314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>owe1.art has previously captured Shaka in the film also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.13.36-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.13.36-1-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.13.36-1-1024x767.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.13.36-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.13.36-1-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.13.36-1-401x300.png 401w, https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-08-at-11.13.36-1.png 1327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jah Shaka Sound System -  Babylon\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GS0DoZrJ28w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us the first time we saw Jah Shaka was in the climactic soundclash scene in Babylon. It was sad to hear that he had passed away recently at the age of 69. Like a lot of people, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/archives\/818\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}