Words & Music ESN1

The Music Within

We’ve made it to the year 2018, and I do sincerely wish you all a Happy and prosperous never-ending life of joy.

Included in this Blog: The Music Within, Album/CD Track List below and Web Links.

Finally, the album, MY POCOMANIAN GIRL was completed and released for purchase and distributed to the worldwide public on, November 15, 2017. My desire going forward is for everyone to own a copy for self and as a gift for friends and loved ones.

I am agnostic to any one genre of music. On the other hand, Jazz, Reggae, Funk and Afro-World music is my core.

Initially, when I started out recording my fourth full CD project, I had a previous purpose in mind. However, as time progressed, this title, “My Pocomanian Girl” came as a surprise, it was a departure from the original intent, a second thought. You see, I was intensely in the process of working on a project to feature mostly a future generation such as one of my sons making modern music. He Raps very well and to include my granddaughter who loves to sing and tell stories would’ve been a bonus.

Invariably, what happened to me personally was a spiritual awakening. After visiting my native ancestral land, Jamaica, where I had my transformational experience meeting family members past and present, known and unknown had ignited my interest wish ultimately redirected my focus on songwriting and producing a new CD and meeting my objectives for the year.

The trip started out with me and other members of my known family who journey to the Island. Further, we shared many great moments together reminiscing on a daily basis. Not only did we have a wonderful time but also reflected on our many joys and ups and downs growing up on the Island. Notwithstanding, and most importantly, we as a family living in the Diaspora visited the country to take care of and support the passing of a family member. Other activities were included and also, some unfinished personal business. Evidently, instead, I was transformed by an extraordinary experience from my past. Besides, I had an encounter that triggered my most profound memories during a period of solitude at one of my ancestral homes.

For twelve months, I’ve dedicated some time to writing specifically a blog each month throughout 2017. I had chosen the theme, Words & Music. During this period, my writings were primarily on words that express thoughts from my past that triggered the present state of mind to wonder and marveled at the endless ideas percolated during those early years. Further, and how I’ve become currently digesting the moment that made me come alive from deep within my soul for future storytelling through my musical compositions in any genre (jazz, reggae, world, alternative, and so on).

Secondly, music has always been the core of my abstract thinking. From a perspective of innate and philosophical views expressing myself through stories aided by the words in poetic verses or prose to reflect my speech within space and time and my mood around people, place, and things. In any event, I used these tools so others can visualize my abstract and innate musical thoughts. That’s how I’ve customarily expressed my most profound intent, in notation to reproduce sounds design through the imagination of my consciousness. Thus, through the faculties transcribed to a medium as a composition to illustrate musically, the experiences painted on a sonic canvas from the invention of the creative mind.

After passing through the Christmas and holiday season, and as the year 2017 has come to a close, it only fits for me to say thanks to all those who’ve read my blogs and supported my musical career throughout the years. On the other hand, to be quite honest, my blogs were not written as a quick read. They mostly intended therapy to satisfy my soul and bring closure to many of my missing links.

Anyone who’ve spent the time to read all or even some my Words & Music blogs, especially the ones posted as ES-9,10,11 and 11-CD would have realized that the “My Pocomanian Girl” album tell a personal story. Thus, I am summing up what I’ve accomplished thus far by transitioning from authoring a novel to producing. Also writing and performing my poetries, and writing songs, composing independent music not merely an ordinary task to accomplish but as one who loves to create, write and tell stories, or to follow through arranging instrumental and vocal recordings, I can only report that it was a joy achieving it all.

Honestly, I do believe that everything is within itself. A tree stored in its seed, and the fruit contained the seeds and so is life is within life. What it means to me is this, whenever an idea comes to me and reveal itself, that’s the time for its discovery and me to recognize what was always hidden deep in my subconscious memory as a whole. But as an unintended consequence, the journey to Jamaica invariably induced a paradigm shift from the original title, “Am Pocomanian.” I’ve continued through as a songwriter and as a musician to extrapolate from personal and imagined experiences for this album. Thus, I was able to fulfill a particular goal that took me closer than ever before to my Jamaican ancestral roots.

One of the reasons many people, including myself, are sometimes afraid to tell stories is the fear of self-exposure. It was for this reason that I continued to write. Once, I can remember making a conscious decision not to take my professional DSLR camera on my Jamaican visit. But instead, I chose to carry a few notepads to journal daily. Thus, I began writing more descriptively and never missed my taking a digital photograph except for a few friendly ones with my cell phone.

The reasoning could merely be that because we’re nervous that they will reveal so much of what is right about ourselves. For example, when I started writing my first blog, I had not planned on traveling to the Island or anywhere for that matter. As a published writer, recording artist and musician, it was personal and meant a lot for me to follow through on a promise I made to myself. I wanted to check off another item from off my bucket list.

I cannot help but say that the music within me is a living organism that never goes away. Even when I am not thinking of it, something will always remind me of a sonic experience. It could be a color, a tapestry, texture or a story from a painting. No matter what it is, music resides in the secret places of my soul waiting to be discovered by my physical senses. It’s the spirit that flows through my entire being that ultimately exposes to the world whatever was once hidden will be brought into the light.

Whenever I set a deadline to accomplished an objective, I am focused like a laser beam vectored on its targeted goals. That’s one of the reasons I’ve had to have accountability by discussing with my business mentor and getting honest and constructive feedback while differentiating the emotional from the logistical such that I am always helped by counsel to keep me on target.

In conclusion, the release of the album to the worldwide public dropped November 15TH, 2017. It’s now available online via digital download, streaming and on physical media for purchase mostly via stores such as CDBaby®, Amazon®, iTunes®, and others where music is sold and streamed internationally.

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Album/CD Track List below:

The songs on this album tell a story about my past, present, and future of a life deeply felt by my Pocomanian experience. It’s poetic, musical and prosaic. As a child, growing up in the Caribbean, on the Island of Jamaica, the message of love, peace, and happiness are given by the creator for humanity to honor and share for generations to come and provide hope is still alive. Affiliation: BMI ®

Publisher: NedGJean International Inc.

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Title: My Pocomanian Girl

Artist: Neddy Smith

Songwriter: Lester G Neddy Smith

Message: Love, peace, and happiness throughout the world.

Genre: Dance-Reggae

14-Tracks – Total playing time: 49:38

Track: Title: CD-Text:

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My Pocomanian Girl

Message: The title song is a dedication to his mother and generations to come. (Dance/Caribbean/Revival)

Title: Am Pocomanian

Message: Am proclamation from a higher consciousness mirroring of prior experiences and relationships attending mother’s Pocomanian meetings. (Dance/Revival)

Live as One

Message: An invitation to all peoples of the world to come together and make this world a better place for the good of humanity. (Reggae)

Love Peace and Happiness

Message: It is given to everyone to have human rights and equal rights and to respect each other together in love peace and happiness. (Reggae)

Title: Am Looking Out

Message: This song is a declaration to the human family to reach out to each other and know that there is a higher power looking out for us all (Dance/Revival/Ska)

When I Go Home

Message: This song is for people living in the diaspora longing to taste their native home-grown foods. (Reggae)

Trouble

Message: No matter where you go in this world today, there is trouble. (Reggae)

How Many Times

Message: A young man asked a question reaching out to his girlfriend or wife who refuses to acknowledge his apologies while seeking her attention. (Retro/Dance)

A Pocomanian Cry

Message: A revivalist expressing her crying pain with joy with harmonic and rhythmic shouts circling as the spirit directed her movements. (Pocomanian-dance-groove)

The Hands of Time

Message: Time waits for no one. The hands of time are continuously moving forward. (Reggae)

When Will It End

Message: People are crying, hurting and dying everywhere in this world, the question is, “when will it end?” (Reggae).

Searching for Love

Message: A lovely young lady kept searching for love from someone she hardly knew the first time their eyes met. (Ska/Pop/Reggae)

She Swims Like a Fish

Message: “She swims like a fish” is dedicated to my granddaughter, Gabrielle, competing at one of her swim-meet events. Dance/Caribbean/Reggae)

Tropical Groove

Message: Neddy’s musical vibe is an adaptation of his Jamaican roots, his visit to Puerto Rico, with his wife was a “Tropical groove.” (Caribbean/Dance)

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Web Links to obtain the CD/Album: