{"id":7287,"date":"2026-02-09T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riddim.world\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:06:16","slug":"chronixx-music-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riddim.world\/mystaging01\/chronixx-music-for-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronixx \u2013 Music For Service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar when it comes to his art \u2013 an enig\u00adma. After keep\u00ading a low pro\u00adfile for five years, releas\u00ading scarce\u00adly any\u00adthing under his own name and play\u00ading only a hand\u00adful of shows, he sud\u00adden\u00adly drops an album with almost no warn\u00ading: a record that pays homage to reg\u00adgae tra\u00addi\u00adtion, stands shoul\u00adder to shoul\u00adder with the greats, and still man\u00adages to rethink the genre. But instead of pro\u00admot\u00ading it to the hilt, he grants almost no inter\u00adviews, doesn\u2019t go on tour, and oth\u00ader\u00adwise con\u00adtin\u00adues to keep his dis\u00adtance from the pub\u00adlic eye. To give \u201dExile\u201d the appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion it deserves, Ellen K\u00f6h\u00adlings and Pete Lil\u00adly combed through past inter\u00adviews and sub\u00adject\u00aded Chronixx\u2019s songs to a close read\u00ading. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text: Ellen K\u00f6h\u00adlings & Pete Lil\u00adly \/\/\/ Pho\u00adtos: William Richards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201dMusic is not a man made thing. It wasn\u2019t a man who bring music into this dimen\u00adsion. It\u2019s a God giv\u00aden thing. It\u2019s like your inspi\u00adra\u00adtion, it\u2019s like sight. Me know music is just anoth\u00ader sense.<\/em>\u201d (Chronixx 2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

When The Tides Were So High And Strong<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Not long ago, the lush land\u00adscape here glowed in vibrant green. Bright\u00adly paint\u00aded wood\u00aden huts added splash\u00ades of colour, and even the small\u00adest vil\u00adlages buzzed with activ\u00adi\u00adty. Now, as far as the eye can see, stretch\u00ades a grey-brown waste\u00adland lit\u00adtered with bare branch\u00ades, top\u00adpled pow\u00ader poles, uproot\u00aded trees, roofs torn off, walls col\u00adlapsed, win\u00addows shat\u00adtered, house\u00adhold belong\u00adings scat\u00adtered about\u2026 Des\u00ado\u00adlate scenes, under\u00adscored by con\u00adsol\u00ading words and heal\u00ading music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reels like these, doc\u00adu\u00adment\u00ading the cat\u00ada\u00adstro\u00adphe, move from one Chronixx track to the next. The rapid pulse of the dig\u00adi\u00adtal feed is slowed by the pull of an ana\u00adlogue pro\u00adduc\u00adtion and a famil\u00adiar voice \u2013 one that hasn\u2019t been this present in years, yet now seems to be the life\u00adline an entire nation is grasp\u00ading for. The apoc\u00ada\u00adlyp\u00adtic scale of the dev\u00adas\u00adta\u00adtion, the sheer suf\u00adfer\u00ading of the peo\u00adple, cries out for a coun\u00adter\u00adbal\u00adance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201dWhen the tides were so high and strong
You gave me shel\u00adter from the rain
On an open and rag\u00ading sea
You res\u00adcued me<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>
(\u201dHur\u00adri\u00adcane\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On Octo\u00adber 28, the Cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adry 5 mon\u00adster Melis\u00adsa made land\u00adfall on Jamaica\u2019s south coast with extreme wind speeds of over 300 kilo\u00adme\u00adters per hour and a min\u00adi\u00admum cen\u00adtral pres\u00adsure of bare\u00adly 900 hec\u00adtopas\u00adcals, mak\u00ading it one of the strongest hur\u00adri\u00adcanes ever record\u00aded in the Atlantic. Two and a half weeks ear\u00adli\u00ader, on Octo\u00adber 10 \u2013 his 33rd birth\u00adday \u2013 Chronixx had released \u201dExile,\u201d his sec\u00adond album, a 17-track fol\u00adlow-up to his debut \u201dChronol\u00ado\u00adgy\u201d. Chronixx seems to pos\u00adsess a prophet\u00adic gift: unwit\u00adting\u00adly, he has cre\u00adat\u00aded the heal\u00ading sound\u00adtrack to the most mas\u00adsive, human-made nat\u00adur\u00adal dis\u00adas\u00adter ever to strike Jamaica. His prayer\u00adful track \u201dHur\u00adri\u00adcane\u201d plays on an end\u00adless loop across Insta\u00adgram feeds. Inter\u00adspersed are \u201dResilient,\u201d<\/a> a call to inner strength wrapped in a love song, the sur\u00advival anthem \u201dSur\u00advivor,\u201d<\/a> and the uplift\u00ading, hope-bear\u00ading \u201dKeep On Ris\u00ading.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201dAnd you inspired the best in me
So I could stand for what I believe
Gave me peace that sur\u00adpas\u00adseth all
Eter\u00adni\u00adty<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>
(\u201dHur\u00adri\u00adcane\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There is some\u00adthing prophet\u00adic even in the album cov\u00ader, if you fol\u00adlow the singer\u2019s far-sight\u00aded gaze into the dis\u00adtance. His grainy pro\u00adfile occu\u00adpies half of the earth-toned art\u00adwork. To the left, a dirt road; above it, a sun\u00adset beneath a cloud\u00aded sky \u2013 no title, no artist name, noth\u00ading to dis\u00adtract. In keep\u00ading with the music, the pho\u00adto\u00adgraph, too, car\u00adries a sense of calm.<\/p>

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Before the release, Chronixx said that \u201dExile\u201d was made for Jamaica. At the time, no one on the island could have imag\u00adined just how deeply they would come to need the album\u2019s sooth\u00ading, uplift\u00ading, and poet\u00adic words, or its warm\u00adly com\u00adfort\u00ading ana\u00adlogue sound. The Jamaican pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader Sabriya Simon wrote the fol\u00adlow\u00ading about the album in a com\u00admen\u00adtary on Insta\u00adgram: \u201dMay many now over\u00adstand that this is part\u00adly what sacred devo\u00adtion and sacred ser\u00advice \u2013 to one\u00adSelf, to fam\u00adi\u00adly, to the earth, to love, to pur\u00adpose and to the Almighty \u2013 look, sound and feel like \u2013 all in divine time. May the light med\u00adi\u00adcine of this offer\u00ading be received in a mighty way by all who need it.\u201d Right now many seem to need this med\u00adi\u00adcine. Kaba\u00adka Pyra\u00admid calls \u201dExile\u201d \u201dmusic for a true vibra\u00adtional shift, for souls and not the indus\u00adtry.\u201d Roy\u00adal Blu attests that Chronixx\u2018 music makes God smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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