Chronixx: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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- Sept. 27, 2017 | Abby O'Neill -- Reggae has long been the most vivid musical escape for me. Its soul-cleansing riddims always feel familiar and cozy, like rushing into your lover's arms after a significant time away. This is especially true for roots reggae, whose staccato guitar licks, billowing bass, and sonic splashes on a canvas of negative space, are like salve for the soul. The mid-tempo pulse varnishes heads with Kool-Aid grins and daydreams of living beachside amid nature's unrestricted beauty.
Given all that, you can understand why I've been obsessed with Chronixx lately. At a time when dancehall has been dominating the Jamaican soundscape, its refreshing to hear the man born Jamar McNaughton carrying the roots-revival torch for a younger generation and expanding upon the footprint left by his world-renowned predecessors.
Chronixx and his band Zincfence Redemption paid a long-awaited visit to the Tiny Desk to perform three songs from his sophomore album, Chronology.
Set List:
"Skankin' Sweet"
"Majesty"
"Spanish Town Rocking"
Musicians:
Jamar McNaughton "Chronixx" (vocals); Evan Mason (keys); Stephen Coore (guitar); N'Namdi Robinson (guitar); Hector Lewis (percussion); Adrian Henry (bass); Oliver Thompson (drums)
Credits:
Producers: Abby O'Neill, Niki Walker, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Niki Walker, Tsering Bista, Morgan Noelle Smith, Bronson Arcuri; Production Assistant: Jenna Li; Photo: Claire Harbage/NPR.
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The guy in the background with the percussion and doing backgroung vocals is a G: playing, singing, smiling and dancing!
Rasta Hector Lewis! He's awesome!
He’s amazing
He’s rocking it 🔥🔥
he is really an enrichment! I am so jealous of his nice teeth too^^
Yesssssss!🔥🔥🔥
Chronixx needs to come back outside in 2024
The world misses him
Yes!
YES SIR
The guy with the dreadlocks really killed it
Lol
😂💯 Best comment lol 💫✨
They all got dread locks
@@PureWater3950 dude hahaha comedy
Lol! All of dem! 😎🙏❤️
The backing vocal dude understood the assignment!!!! Majesty!!!
Such a sweet voice and energy. Cool.
For sure
Swears 💯
Perfectly the dude chroniixx need...such a talent is rare
Coulnt have said it better!! hahah What a king!! All of them tho!!! How to describe feel?? ..play this song
dude in the back is mad dedicated, playin like 5 instruments and doin vocals! he killin it! and his energy dope af
U shud see Hector dance! He is amazing!
zinc fence redemption..... BOOM!
Bless up for the love King
Energy is dope! My fav part of this video. His smile warms my soul 😎✌😍😍
I guess they're all dedicated😄..
this video should be showed to everyone who live on the earth including animals and trees
lol this made me laugh
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
and fish??
Yes lawd.
And UFO's??
Who out there "Skankin Sweet" in 2020?
I wish 😌
2021
The background vocalist is so joyful & happy. I literally admire him. This is what harmony looks like.
Lovee his smile
tht dude on the bongos is angelic af
Public Candles hahahahahaa Hell yeah!!
Right😍😂
Angelic AF! For real
Hector Lewis. Love Chronixx, and I would love to see Hector take the lead someday. I will be watching.
Big part of what was happening.
Still hits 5 years later :)
even 6 years later.. (:
Dad : stop that music
Me : why dad ?
Dad : Go and bring the speakers..
Me : why dad ?!
Dad : Go bring the blunt from the car.
@@tomadams3528 easy skankin :)
@@grandsmo23 true true.
I need to take it easy:) kaya kaya ,
Got to have kaya now , kaya kaya.
papa go and bring the boom box
❤️❤️❤️❤️😂😂😂😂😂
The beautiful shades of our blackness is well represented.
I love raggae and african heritage mother land love from Mexico city
It's all about music here! why alway color must be involved? and black people go cry for equality, and they're the most recist people on Earth!! BTW I'm black, before you start attacking white people!
@@hakimelhaj8998 hush 🤫
@@b.w4969 thank you 😂
As a Jamaican this puts such a huge smile on my face to see artist like Chronixx featured on NPR. This brother’s music is a breath of fresh air. The band and back up singer is also on a whole other level. Nuff respect family.
Dude in the background is amazing 😩😭😭✨
❤❤❤
Dude dancing w the funny faces on percussion and back vocals stole the show
nope. ur just infatuated with him.
Cool Dr Money salt
Grant Bevan that’s Hector, my bro from high school. Always been like this
Grant Bevan
Hector is AWESOME
Haha epic nice one, these guys loving life, skanking sweet!! Praise Jah Jah
It’s my birthday and I’m celebrating all by myself. This made me start dancing all alone
easygardenia happy birthday
ptah thank you, so much
More life mines April 19❤️
Happy birthday
Mines was March 14...... couldn't go nowhere so I had a drink and listened to tiny desk performances
Black Algorithmist 000 same af! Happy Birthday!
The guy in the background singing and playing drum is everything for me
the bongo guy totally stole the show. I would watch a tiny desk of just that guy smiling
Chronixx is Boss but that percussionist STEALS THE SHOW BWOY! 😍😎
Jubal John the best!!!!
Jubal John his name is Hector, very good dude, great energy
Jubal John Yesssss!
Jubal John I couldn’t stop watching him lol. I thought man that dude should be in the front, he stole the show
He was sknkin sweet
Came for Chronixx, but the background singer made me watch the whole session..
Too much 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
+254 Kenya representing 🇰🇪
Same here!
tuko wengi manze
That’s the Great Hector aka Roots Percussionist
Warasta woteee
🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
Spanish town gives me goosebumps every time I hear the track. Big up puppa Chronixx
me too. my grandfather was from there........
not everybody in Jamaica smoke weed and there is no need to. Growing the dread is to show your commitment to the movement. I hate when foreigners try to make everything we do about smoking weed. I just dilutes the effort of a true artists
I mean.... his name IS Chronixx.
@@ibieiniid4240 named after his dad Chronicle. Nothing to do with weed
raggae culture was built up on smoking weed, once Rastafarianism fused with it. its been that way since drop.
albert Lees chromic has never smoked a day in his life. He steams. Neither does he drink.
@@yazimme5141 he drank beer b4.. even though he said in an interview that he haven't drink a day in his life. I've been around Chronixx duh hush yuh believe everything u heard or saw in the media mouth
Yeeeeeeees
Tiny Desk staff has eexcellent tastes seriously.
ayanada06 absolutely amazing
No really?!? They be on it!
80658382818789
Couldn't agree more!
The guy on the piano is crazy underrated
The guy playing percussion in the background has out-smiled the rest of the guys
The guy on the keyboard is the epitome of chill. The little bounce he has while playing is everything.
This is the most amazing aspect to Tiny Desk Concerts, it allows you to discover new music in the most scaled down, organically raw way. Chronix will now be in rotation on my playlist. I’m now a new fan!
Kayshauna Price the first time I heard him a few yrs back i became an instant fan.
Welcome to the club
Kayshauna Price seen him live twice now...his concert with mellow mood was awesome! Welcome to irie !
Skankin sweet
Great to see a new reggae music fan, you should check all Jamaican artists they are awesome , feel the vibes
Roots reggae is Ital food for the soul.....
I find myself listening to the Tiny Desk versions over album versions now... Tiny Desk is legendary
Me too. It's so rich ❤
Anyone else still can't get enough of this in 2020?
I’ve been a chronix fan FOREVER 💕💕
🙋🏾♀️
🔥🔥🔥
This was pure garbage
@@DewnetteReid "easy Natty Dread... take it away Zinc Fence" your Mom like it!!! That's right isn't it Mami? "Yass Fyah"! She say she like it! Told you!
Chronixx sounds great as always but can we take a moment to appreciate the falsetto the BGV has 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Jay W Yes! That background vocal adds a necessary complexity! It's delicate and delicious. This entire performance is making Tuesday morning beautiful rn.
Good lion is chronixx
Feeling arie!!!!give thanks.Bona vibra a tothom!
Anyone else get distracted by the pit-stains on the bongo player? Grey shirts = pits at risk. Nevertheless, great songs.
yessss
Normally Chronixx hits those high notes himself but his voice is clearly not 100% during this performance.... his percussionist really stepped up for him!!
Yes, his voice was sort of gone, he was drinking something for it
Agreed
He seems perplexed by it why he keeps rubbing his chin.
Is it just me or his voice almost always ruff live?
Totally right? He seems sick or not at his 100% on his voice so still he did it amazing
I feel so blessed as a Jamaican to see Another Jamaican being great🇯🇲🇯🇲💪🏾🔥. It brings me great joy to see Chronixx and Jr gong Marley performing on NPR💪🏾🇯🇲ONE LOVE🇯🇲OUT OF MANY ONE PEOPLE 🇯🇲💪🏾❤️
I am Nigerian, I loooove reggae music, I loooove Jamaica. Reggae music touches the soul, and the patois is most interesting.
I respect that
@JayoJay loved her performance
We always up in the comments flying our flag 🇯🇲
Caribbean people are proud! 💪👏Together! Madinina.
Jamaicans are royals to the Ashanti(Akan) tribe Ghana. One love❤️
woww thats new info!! to me at least. thanks
I was just saying to myself a few of them including Chronixx looks Ghanaian
We were taught that in school in Jamaica , we all know this....There are some tribes from Benin and Nigeria , so can see the difference in the way they behave..
❤❤❤
Mainly Akan and Igbo. The Coromantee spirit has never left us!!
I found reggae to be the most difficult music to play. The irony is the melody is so simple but soul and feeling are necessary for all the elements to come together and make sense... peace to these brothas for killing this jam sess...
you white..???..they not jammin thats their original music...what kind of...thats roots earthy vibes going on there...is either you have it or you dont.
Reggae is da Heartbeat
So true
I Hear you J W
Reggae is just jazz with Jam and vibe
One of the best and most influential culture in the world
JayoJay and where do you think hip hop got it's influences from? Do your homework before you open your mouth. No one in NY would of heard nothing if it wasn't for Jamaican sound system culture
JayoJay but the main comment said nothing about hip hop he was referring to reggae music but who cares its all good music just don't confuse reggae with hip hop
Ras tafari is the future of life, love, unity, health, nature, prosperety, unity ,.....
Blessed love idren and sistren😍
EDM too. Started in Jamaica.
Even when they're talking normally, they sound like they're still vibing
So I didn't know of chronixx until I spent some time in Jamaica. This guy is an absolute legend. From his skill, to his style, to discovering and building up Koffee. Best talent Jamaica has seen since Bob. Respect
The only music that plays to the heart and not the brain. The sounds of reggae is the music of the Devine. It will comfort and uplift the oppressed around the world. In the end, it will show that reggae music has been the soundtrack of liberation from evil. Blessings to my country man Chornixx.
Hector is killing it in the background!!
Salute to the now solo artist 👑 Hector Roots Lewis 🌟
who else scroll down to see comments on the guy in yhe corner?
Me lol
The man doing background is mvp
I love this but that man in the corner is the best. He makes it better lol.
Q Boo you realized that too, he’s awesome 👏🏿
Hector!!
Q Boo what is your Instagram, I hate to ask over the Internet but you are beautiful
yes yes yes yes !!!!!!!!
Bless up for the love, Queen
so beautiful and effortless
yeah "no sweat"
sorry
raretrick m
Perfect definition of this concert.
lol
420 ith like.. guess ill roll up a blunt 2 tha tunes
3 years later and this is still one of my favs. That background singer is everything. Just everything.
♥️♥️♥️
I can't even see the lead singer, even though he's in focus and in the center of the frame... All I can focus on is how much fun percussion/backup vocals is having.
To see one of my fellow Caribbean bredren on this makes me so proud
I started video and I said "Nah... I don't want to listen reggae right now, maybe later..."
I couldn't close the tab, I'm still listening.
You can't not be in the mood for reggae, even if you think you don't want it you definitely can't refuse it.
You got muscled into feelin' Irie... 😜
Dude, it's been a year already, stop listening 😁
me asf rn
Reggae is like a spear penetrating through the heart with a wonderful sensation
Who's still listening to this with me 2023
2024
2024
Listening to these acoustic versions of chronixx is like surfing in a wave of good vibes, his voice sosimple and powerful.
DOPE never heard of him, now downloading his work
blacsheep19 check out protoje ft chronixx - who knows. So good
You won't regret it, I promise!!!
He'll be in Trinidad on the 24th November...2017.....yayyyy
Hardcore (remix) - Jah9 feat. Chronixx
How can a person dislikes this music???
DeJuana Marie badmind ago kill them
Right
It’s not very hard actually.. there’s a dislike button.. they just have to click on it 😆
clickmiss i think
The hector(the percussion guy) is a legend for this, talk about commitment, playing all em instruments and doing background vocals
The backing singer/percussionist is absolutely everything!! ❤
🔥agree!
Ive discovered so many great artists thanks to Tiny Desk Concerts.
the back up vocalist enjoyed himself
his vocal control is so sublime, love how heswitching flows and cadence..still here
2024
Great Music.... But the cat in the gray shirt on bongos and Backup Vocals...Dude's havin a blast!!!
ilove it!
🇯🇲 🇯🇲🇯🇲
I wish the set list included " I Can" and "Black is Beautiful" my faves from the album.
Go deh puppa Chronixx!
Kandice T I can!!!!! Those lyrics...
Maybe on the next one 🙏
Yes !
God I love “I can”!!! I wished it was there too.
When I come across new music that I like, regardless of the colour of the skin on the people playing it, I just listen to it. I find the visual tag of the musicians often tags them to genres, and that, I think, has had a negative effect upon the music itself. America has coined a phrase that I find deeply offensive, I think it's called, "Cultural Misappropriation". If it's misappropriated, then presumably you can't hear any difference between donor Culture and receiving (other cultural) misapprpriator.
The greatest blues musicians of the early 1950's would turn in their graves to hear musicians argue ownership of a musical style or, genre, or type of sound.
There are musicians in all ethnic races, and all ethnic races have musicians with interest in the music of others. Those who play a type of music best, will inevitably float to the top. That's just music, it's not cultural, its just difficult. It (i.e. Music) sounds shit if a bad player slaughters it and it sounds like a window to heaven when played by an adept.
Also, refering to colours as beautiful is misappropriation of colour. Black is the absence or antithesis of colour. What it certainly isn't (in a colour setting rather than as a skin-tone) is "Beautiful". People are never black as far as I can see, and differentiating them is usuallu hapless at best and down-right racist at worst. People have names, so why refer to them as a (often very imprecise) skin colour?
Chronixx!!! Yuh LARGE! Tiny desk di man reach! Nice to see a Jamaican on the international stage like this! Big ups.
Jhan-Michael Lyons This is nothing new .Jamaicans been on the international stage long time
Brushy one string also represented here
Its the back up vocals for me! I should've trusted CZcams when it recommended this to me all year long
love how they all have dreadlocks 😭😭😭❤️❤️I love being black
Chronixx....
I just had to open it up as soon as I saw the notification.
Kyle May chronixx
Himar
More Reggae...
Peanutbutter jellyfish
More Herb's 🚬🌿😵
Need to get koffee on tiny desk asap !!!
Just saw her on it! Amazing
She’s there!!!!
Just like that she appears
I saw her and she was awesome.
Omg yeees
Honestly these are all really great musicians. Nobdoy was mentionin that enough. The lead singers doing really cool stuff i been signing to thils video a lot. The drum set, keys, guitars, hand percussion..
This whole bands real tight
The falsetto of the background vocalist. Beautiful. Bring me a Corona and a lounge chair. Love!!!!!
so many beautiful black dreadheaded men on one tiny stage. 😍
#locdlife
YES LAWD!
Just beautiful people. They aint one of em blick, an dat be darm strait! Has u evva see dem blu dudes! So few ugly blue types on da one stage, but who gives a flyin plop bout dat. Dem blue, dem not Everton, but dem damn good at de blue dude sounds...
I aint goin a kik off. Scouser I mite furchhin beee, burri dont care. Teams be in rred, blue, or white but you wont neva ear me talkin dat colour referrence shite. Referin to wat clodes dey woz born wiv. Givin us white ugly musos a bad complex wiv the blick chat. So many good foooot-ballerz in one city. Some of em even play for tranmere, burri dan even give a shite abarrit da neiver.
Ize reliably informed dat me spellin is shite. And dat dee head doos is locks
Eddie Redmond Profile picture checks out
@@eddieredmond7674 like she said beautiful black men. Get outta here.
@@eddieredmond7674 shut up 🤷🏾
That percussionist has the purest energy 🙏
My favorite Tiny Desk Concert! The percussionist is a total legend! Dancing, playing several instruments with his million dollar smile! Good vibes!
Fantastic feature! Chronixx working that mic and Hector working that camera!
JayoJay yep Son of Cat Coore of Third World
those sessions always sound better than their studio stuff
howlinwolf0320 live music is the best
The studio stuff wicked same way yeh
Yea i agree. It feels more personal and natural.
Shankin' sweet. It's a soul-cleansing song. Genius.
Yes. It is!!
Just discovered Chronixx a week ago, hooked!
I saw him live. He’s amazing
Awesome to see Chronixx doing it big on NPR. Patiently awaiting the arrival of Protoje.
Yes Protoje forward!
Jesse royal! 💕
Kabaka Pyramid
Yo protoje would be an absolute legend one day, hear me out world
So... we all remember reggae music, right? Chronixx, I Wayne and some other few still doing real reggae, with da real message.
Rembember: from a little island called Jamaica reggae music and Rasta culture was spread to the world. This music arrived in every corner of the planet and everybody learn to skunk. Now it's time to learn the mean of ONE LOVE concept. World need it. World need us.
Irie!
Ah wich island unnu ah call lickle!!!!???? JAMAICA IS AH BIG BIGGER BIGEST ISLAND when you talking about island!!!!!
...And we nuh ah SKUNK...we ah SKANK..!
Thanks.
Big up to all addi Jamaican dem spreading di love
Plenty of people still doing real reggae
Big up the entire band and a special hail to hector ..1 man doing like 5 things at once and his vocal support …unmatched
Da yute deh weh a do d percussion and bak up vocals is fully inlove wit wat he does. Big up Jamar everytime👍👍
Yesss! Chronixx on NPR! Much love to NPR for this. Im vibing. Love ❤️💛💚
This sound is so therapeutic it’s unimaginable
Jamaican Jazz - the sound that tickles your heart and kisses your soul. ❤️ Love it!
I cannot wait to see chronixx in may 23 citysplashfest. Hes the reason im going. I. Live in south london and hes my favourite artists ❤️
This is a reason to fly from switzerland to london. LineUp looks great
mate im going too, will be my first time at a festival, and to see my favorite artist ever. i cannot wait
Such a raw sound ;so beautiful!!
ViviAnne Barnett like u so beautiful. .. damn mommy hit me up
@@alphagamerx1010 thirsty rass
If reggae soul is a genre this is it
For sure, for sure 👌🏾
God let me raise a son like this. I need to meet his parents.
Truth!!!!
Wow I feel where this is coming from. Here here.
Agreed. ❤️🔥
hello queen His father is a roots reggae singer named Chronicle! Find his music and check it out!
Don't we all! 😄
I'm not Jamaican but Love the culture, food and most of all the music and Chronixx is my favorite reggae artist its always a positive message in every song
Same and I love visiting there always an irie time
The recording crew at NPR are absolute wizards
dope backing vocals, chronixx fire as usual
Does anyone else feel like musicians from Jamaica are just... better than anywhere else?
just watching the guy at the background...pure energy
Chronixx is my artist but dang that ras doing background vocals got me skankin sweet. 😍
Hector Lewis, is a gift to us all, we are barely worthy
rightttttttt
I'm mad that I'm just now discovering his music!
TheAndres411 you should jump in on this one too then
m.czcams.com/video/4QodtsR0XKw/video.html
Skankin Sweet never gets old!! 😮💨
i watch this daily
Still here 😂❤
Chronixx to the world! Special shout out to Hector...always jamming!
Patricia Clay Hector is amazing
Every time I listen to this it instantly fixes my mood, and helps me feel better! Thank you Chronixx
same here.....Jah 9 too
Me too!
Best Tiny Desk Performance to date!
Spanish Town Rockin hit different. 🔥🤙🏽
Food for the soul
Chronixx is so talented, amazing song writer, can sing and rap in his own style so proficiently, this is a rare thing in all genres, he is a living legend -- everything flows so naturally. He's one of my favorite artists right now and Reggae isn't even my main style of music, but it is a strong spiritual root to my music consciousness. Thanks for bringing Chronixx, great lion heart. True reggae music is so special.
The guy in the back doing it all!!. That smile though.love it