March 29, 2024

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Bagga Case hailed as ‘most prolific vinyl album designer in the world’ | Entertainment

There is definitely an aspect of pre-future in the reality that a guy with the surname ‘Case’ would make his livelihood by making situations for vinyl albums and CDs. From the times of physical lower-and-paste and when new music was packaged and sold as albums, with every single one particular clothed in its special ‘jacket’, as it was known as, Orville Situation has been the go-to guy for protect designs in the new music small business in Jamaica. Enter the era of CDs, and jackets ended up even now deemed a huge detail, and while noticeably diminished in dimensions, they dropped none of their value, and Situation even now acquired a bag of operate.

In new music circles, the graphics guru who has also distinguished himself as the direct singer for the reggae and R&B team, Dwelling T (formerly Dwelling T four), is regarded as ‘Bagga Case’, with a pronunciation that completely ignores the area concerning the two phrases. But he is great with that. As a make a difference of reality, there is barely just about anything that ruffles Bagga Situation, as very long as he is working, he is just great.

“I just can’t prevent working. I have been working suitable as a result of the evening for thirty-odd a long time. If I experienced to are living my everyday living all about once more, I would are living it the specific exact way. But future time, I would try out to make some income,” Bagga Situation, who is becoming recognised for his contribution to the new music market, explained to The Gleaner.

His pal, Frankie Campbell of Fab 5, is overjoyed that Bagga Situation is the receiver of the Gregory Isaacs Basis Award at the 2021 Jamaica Reggae Marketplace Affiliation (JaRIA) ceremony. Campbell hailed him as “the most prolific, graphic vinyl album/ CD designer in Jamaica and the earth … and we hope that one particular working day quickly we will be able to see an exhibition with some of all those fantastic items of our preferred new music, art and historical past, as a result of his album jackets”.

Bagga almost blushed.

“I observed Frankie’s tribute, and I am humbled. I seriously really feel superior about this award. It is given by my friends, and they realize. It comes from the heart. I have been given other awards in the previous, but this one particular is exclusive,” he reported.

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Campbell, in his tribute, noted that “Orville ‘Bagga’ Situation, in his 45 a long time of accomplishing album jackets, has accomplished about 5,000 first jackets for almost just about every Jamaican singer and deejay, like Gregory Isaacs, Bunny Wailer, Dennis Brown, Yellow Guy, John Holt, Ken Boothe, Marcia Griffiths, Rita Marley, Bob Andy, Buju Banton, Beres Hammond, Dwelling T, Fab 5, Chalice, Tiger, Gem Myers, Third World, Derrick Harriott and the Mighty Diamonds. He did albums for most report producers and studios, like VP, Dynamics, Sly and Robbie, Anchor, Federal, Jammys, Tuff Gong, Sonic Seems, Harry J, Penthouse, Grafton, Stage and Bobby Electronic.”

Bagga Situation reminisced that his pretty first album jacket was Leroy Smart’s Get Smart, which he was commissioned to do by report producer Gussie Clarke of New music Operates/Anchor. However, he has not stored count of the selection of jackets and fliers he has produced given that he started off in the mid-70s.

“I see Frankie put 5,000, but it could be extra, or it could be a lot less. I labored with VP [Data] for 14 a long time and Dynamics for fifteen. I also did operate for Island Data and for Gussie, and acquired to satisfy so several singers. Which is a wonderful aspect of this job. As an entertainer, you predominantly see your colleagues backstage at a concert, but I experienced the pleasure of interacting with 90 for every cent of the singers mainly because I was accomplishing their album and CD addresses. It has been a excellent journey,” he said.

Gregory Isaacs’ widow, June, explained to The Gleaner that “Bagga Situation is extra than deserving of this award” and that her late partner would certainly have been delighted.

“Gregory is often offering, and he would be pretty delighted to know that this award is from him to an individual who has contributed to the market in a important way other than singing. That is the conditions for the award. For case in point, it can be a dancer, a photographer or a designer,” Isaacs reported.

Bagga Situation is one of a kind in that he is both of those at the rear of and in front of the scene. He joined Dwelling T four in 1973, not very long soon after leaving Kingston Specialized Large College and sending up supplications for a singing occupation. “I prayed to the Father to allow me to begin recording, and soon soon after, I was invited to a listening session by some good friends. I explained to them, ‘oonu audio superior, but oonu have to have a direct singer’. They reported, ‘That’s why we call yuh,’” he shared.

The team did their first music, Mister Hearth, in 1974 and the uncovered important achievement in the ‘80s (as Dwelling T) with Who She Love (with Cocoa Tea and Shabba Ranks), Really don’t Toss It All Away, and Mek The Xmas Ketch Yuh In A Fantastic Temper. Bagga Situation continues to report and has out a new EP titled Bagga Situation: Mr Banjo Guy. And, sure, he designed the case.

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