Chronixx Introduces Team Behind ‘Same Prayer’ Ft Kabaka Pyramid
Reggae luminary Chronixx has released new visuals for Same Prayer and took to Instagram live to introduce us to the team behind the music.
The visuals arrive less than a week since the digital release, the second single in the forthcoming Dela Splash album, which is surprisingly only the second full album from the 27-year-old Jamar Mcnaughton better known as Chronixx.
Chronologically following a consistent stream of epic and exciting, high budget movie-style videos, at first glimpse Same Prayer could be a slight disappointment.
The handheld style video opens with scenic mountainscape views of Jamaica as the track intros featuring the prominent sound of Nyabinghi Drumming, courtesy of Hector Lewis, the roots percussionist. Chronixx chants out “I I Nyabinghi Order” (The most Incient mansion of RasTafari named after an east african queen, legend, and tradition it is said to mean “death to black and white oppressors” today).
Yesterday, on the live stream with Chronixx, Hector explained how his style and approach is to bring that indigenous cultural and spiritual sound into the modern production, this particular song being produced by St Croix’s “Zion I Kings” and Teflon Zincfence.
The video remains very simple showing two main scenes, with a fresh outfit for each and some cool video FX by Ivor Mcray who edited and gave artistic direction to the video.
We see Chrondadda skanking, performing to the camera as he delivers this heartfelt
musical prayer, which is truly a psalm of the times, reflecting Reggae music as the true gospel of RasTafari.
“I have no fear for anything ,
You give me all the strength I need
To make it through this world I was born in
Rastafari is my peace of mind
Jah thank you for your love and kindness”.
Chronixx also introduced us to “Oshane Love” hailing from St James Jamaica, the saxophonist on the record, another highly talented young musician recording with the likes of Shaggy and Stephen Marley.
“The closest of friends will deceive you badly, I learned that Rastafari is my family.” In conversation with “Drew Keys,” the pianist on the record Chronixx spoke about the universal family bond of the RasTafari community worldwide and the power it has as an all-encompassing movement of all ethnicities and people from every nation.
Kabaka appears on the screen in a very different scene as he begins his verse in a melodic (Chronixx Guided) smooth vocal take. The scene soon switches, and he joins Chronixx on the same scenic mountain road though socially distanced…
Regarding the new release, Kabaka wrote on his Instagram: “It seems only a divine power can help humanity at this point. This song is a call to reach deeply with oneself to find that power and ask it to guide and protect against the unknown elements along the way. So many things happening in realms we are not yet able to perceive with our limited senses. Until we reach that stage we must trust the process with faith and determination. Give thanks for this work of art @chronixxmusic I’m glad to lend some smooooth vocals to it.”
He added, yesterday, with a clip of the music video. “This One just Feels like an absolute classic, a lie?”
All in all, the simplicity of the video has the feel that it is intended more as an enhancement to the song than a project in itself, as we have seen with the previous videos. The song truly is a masterpiece in a time where we are all trying to master peace and the serene mountains of jamaica is the perfect location for this visual representation of the song.
Words by Conah Dalton.