POUR LA TOUTE PREMIÈRE FOIS, MAXI PRIEST CHANTE EN FRANÇAIS préfigurant d'autres créations avec son collaborateur jamaïcain-québécois, Jonathan Emile. Alors que Maxi se connecte avec ses fondations roots reggae, il cherche à passer le flambeau à la prochaine génération sur un riddim composé par Emile et produit par Paul Cargnello. Cette ambiance révolutionnaire est une chanson puissante et prémonitoire qui est moderne mais assez familière à la tradition reggae. Faisant preuve de passion et d'étendue vocale, nous sentons l'esprit de la Jamaïque résonner dans le monde entier tout en exigeant justice.

SINGER-SONGWRITER JONATHAN EMILE HAS COLLABORATED with British-Jamaican reggae fusion vocalist Maxi Priest for a remix of his hauntingly prophetic ballad "Babylone s’effondre". The song reveals Maxi Priest's first utterances in French, while Emile flexes his diverse trilingual Jamaican-Canadian roots. The artists release the track today, via Emile and Cargnello's record label: Hell for Breakfast (distributed by Believe Distribution Services) & courtesy of MindPeaceLove. The single’s release will be followed by a remixed music video. The original version was distributed by Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong International.

The original song was released just as civil unrest gripped America and much of the world. The pair chose this time to launch the powerful remix about dismantling oppressive systems. The original version was included on Emile's 2020 album “Spaces-in-Between”. They began work on the project in January 2020 during Emile's promotional trip to NYC and planned from the inception to work on the French version.

As the pandemic set in, the trio worked remotely on the adaptation. Priest adds to the intro and the chorus with French vocals while Emile effortlessly “chants down” Babylon en français.

The remix art which features the now-iconic image of the Minneapolis Police Department's 3rd Precinct burning to the ground during a night of public outrage over George Floyd's murder, features a notable addition, Paul Cargnello, Montréal producer who worked on Emile’s “Spaces-in-Between” (2020). Cargnello and Emile are now in the full throes of recording a follow-up to the critically successful first effort.

"Fire a go bun pon your idiot plan... So you better understand, like a castle in the sand."

- Jonathan Emile - Babylone s'effondre

Credits:

Written, composed & performed by Jonathan Emile & Maxi Priest
French adaptation by Geneviève Allard & Jonathan Emile
Produced by Paul Cargnello
Recorded & Mixed by Fabrice Jean & Paul Cargnello
Vocals: Jonathan Emile & Maxi Priest
Bass, guitar & percussions: Paul Cargnello
Keys & drums: Chris Cargnello
℗© MindPeaceLove Inc.