{"id":5383,"date":"2023-02-10T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2023-02-10T10:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T10:01:50","slug":"elihu-morris-looks-into-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=5383","title":{"rendered":"Elihu Morris Looks into Your Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never one to stick with one sound, Elihu Morris maintains his penchant for experimenting with <strong><em>\u2018Your Eyes\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a Nyahbinghi song that was recently released. It is co-produced by the Boston-based singer and Andrew \u201cAndrew Bassie\u201d Campbell, his longtime collaborator.<\/p>\n<p>Describing reggae as world beat music, Morris spoke to the importance of reinvention to an artist\u2019s career. \u201cIt\u2019s the kind of music that we are putting out there that inspires freshness, knowing that we are not just doing reggae, but we are doing world reggae, something out of the box,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>To stay outside that box, Morris again works with Campbell, his colleague of over 30 years. He said they share a similar approach to music production and the preservation of quality reggae.<\/p>\n<p>They have worked together on several of his recent songs including <strong><em>\u2018Any Little Man\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and<strong><em> \u2018On Your Side of Town<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, urban ballads that appeal to the working-class man. Songs with that type of message, he reasoned, are in danger of becoming lost to the dancehall generation which makes \u2018Your Eyes\u2019 even more relevant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMi enjoy some of dem (dancehall music) but a lotta dem need a lot of work, things to teach people something and feed dem souls spiritually,\u201d said Morris. \u201cI don\u2019t bash no music; I appreciate all music but I think di youths dem need to take a leaf from di foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica\u2019s capital. The rugged nature of his upbringing in Craig Town &#8212; a community near Trench Town &#8212; influenced him to pursue a music career that has produced a number of songs, albums and an EP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never one to stick with one sound, Elihu Morris maintains his penchant for experimenting with \u2018Your Eyes\u2019, a Nyahbinghi song that was recently released. It is co-produced by the Boston-based singer and Andrew \u201cAndrew Bassie\u201d Campbell, his longtime collaborator. Describing reggae as world beat music, Morris spoke to the importance of reinvention to an artist\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5384,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions\/5384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}