Ras Indio’s latest CD looks at political events

He is one of the most active musicians on the Belizean scene, both in terms of the product he creates and his advocacy for local artists. And this week Ras Indio is out pushing his latest release. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has a preview.

Ras Indio, Musician
?Right now, the ?Push Up The Fire Vibes? was wonderful. Me love the people, they expressed a lot of love. True they say a prophet is never recognised in his own home, well in Belize I feel recognised and the people they show me the love every single day.?

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
But will Ras Indio?s latest release ?Stay Positive? be just as popular with the public? The CD features fifteen tracks and basically encourages people to stay positive despite the many challenges the country faces. The liner notes feature colour snapshots of the recent riot and the violence that occurred.

Ras Indio
?The CD represents all of the events that took place the other day and it represents my personal situation right now in the music industry and the only thing that I can come up with is to stay positive. Each and everybody right now in this time, stay positive.?

Stay Positive is not the well-known artist?s first production, but it?s the first time that he has attempted to protect his work from being illegally copied.

Ras Indio
?Burning of CDs has been a common trait amongst the world, so what we have right now is a programme to protects CDs from being burnt. And I took my time to put it on each individual CD, so that the public out there could really appreciate and can go out and spend their money to support one of the CDs you know.?

?And I have to big up Enigma, DJ Frisco, one of the hardest out there who took his time to re-master the entire project, so that every song have the quality that we di look for in music.?

Stay Positive is available at all leading record stores for twenty dollars. Jacqueline Woods for News Five.