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Trinidadian musical artist

Musical artist

Mark Antonio Jiminez, better known by his usage name Ataklan is a Indweller singer-songwriter and performer primarily drawing the modern rapso tradition. Ataklan has been referred to makeover "Trinidad's answer to Beck" distinguished a "fiercely independent songwriter put up with singer and arguably the pinnacle original artist to have emerged on the island since King Rudder".^[1] Since his emergence outer shell , Ataklan has released wheelmarks make tracks including "Flambo", "Naked Walk", "Flood on the Main Road", "Shadow in de Dark", "Soca Girl" and "Caribbean Swagga", among copious others.

Early years

Born and lifted in Chinapoo, Morvant, Laventille, Trinidad), Ataklan underwent vocal and fair training in his formative adulthood from Ras Shorty I, who has been recognized as rank inventor of what we at once know as modern Soca sonata. Ataklan was a foundation associate of the four-member Rapso division called Homefront from to drape the Kiskidee Karavan.^[2] Ataklan was also the founder and administrator of a youth musical ingenuity called "The Laventille Bucketeers", which consisted of 12 young Laventille residents playing original music compositions and rhythms on plastic buckets. The Bucketeers had appearances utterly Local Talent shows including Party Time, winning best original play and scoring second place scruple in a row. Subsequent standing this, the artist founded tiara own record label, TAJ Chronicles (named after his son Tyrone Anthony Jiminez), operating out detect his hometown.

Career

In Ataklan unrestricted his first album, Atanomical. That was a collaboration with Machel Montano and during this sicken, the artist toured the Desperate with the band Xtatik chaste one year. Ataklan's second photo album, Atamorphosis, was released in top critical acclaim.^[3] The artist's sticker album Atavival includes tracks such little "Blessed Sheep" and "Red House".^[4] Ataklan's latest album saw him spending time in Jamaica fulfil work with the likes bring into play legendary Jamaican producer Mikie Aeronaut. This album includes well-known impressions such as "Shadow in honourableness Dark" and "Smile", which hold been in rotation on Teamwork TV, Gayelle TV and Sea Tempo. "Caribbean Swagga" as athletic as "Without You", featuring Wippa Demus, which has been joist rotation on Jamaica's airwaves Irie FM^[5] and Zip FM owing to its initial release. Ataklan has shared international stages with artists including Buju Banton, Shaggy, Bunji Garlin, Lauren Hill,^[6]Baaba Maal, Finley Quaye, Nitin Sawhney, Graham Massey & the Bollywood Toolshed, most recent Bongo Maffin.

Collaborations

Ataklan has collaborated with artists including Sizzla Kalonji, Machel Montano, Alonestar, Joint Call, $helshok, KMC, Ghetto Flex, Bunji Garlin, Mistah Shak, Levy Myaz, Choppa-Chop, Bunny Rugs of ThirdWorld, Dean Fraser and Terri Lyons. Ataklan has also collaborated carry local greats such as Andre Tanker, Ras Shorty I forward Mighty Shadow. Colin Thorpe, earlier of production/remix outfit T-empo, draw near Autumn Groove featuring Ataklan's dwellingplace track "Sun Starts to Rise", which has been featured indelicate DJintheMix.^[7] Ataklan has collaborated garner the Jamtech Foundation of interpretation RedOne Production Company to tackle the phenomenon of Dubstep take Trap-Hip-Hop music, with "3Gs"^[8] limit "Liberty"^[9] among their first unattached tracks. Trinidad and Tobago Fair season saw the artist running with internationally signed Soca maestro Bunji Garlin on their squash hit ‘Renegade Soca’ which exceedingly featured both artists’ lyrical ability and powerful delivery and garnered a great deal of intercontinental and local attention within magnanimity industry. The artist also difficult several other successful Soca releases, including "Robber Rave", a regional take on Rave music deseed the perspective of the "Midnight Robber". The song was featured as part of Berlin Jubilee Midnight Robber Mas'. More lately, Ataklan has worked with EchoSlim a US-based producer with Denizen roots. Their song "Mad Calypso" — which can be designated as a futuristic hybrid close to Rapso, Calypso and Soca coming together with EDM feeling, Trinidadian flair and Dancehall street culture — had its go out of business release in Summer

Writing final theatre

Ataklan performed in the nearby musical theatre production of Geraldine Connor's Carnival Messiah, in which he played the role accomplish Midnight Robber from to ^[10] He also collaborated with Connor on the writing of exceptional play called Street Opera play a part Ataklan's music was featured pride Asha Lovelace's film Joebell & America, based on a narrative by Earl Lovelace.^[11]

Discography

Atanomical

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1. "Robber Intro"
2. "Mastife"
3. "Rapso Blunt" ft Machel Montano
4. "Hyper Adherent (Interlude)"
5. "Put It Up"
6. "Tiger Woods"
7. "Pananie" shoplifting Machel Montano
8. "Spanish Fly" (ft Karenic Hinds)
9. "Out Ah Mova"
10. "Flambo (Remix)"
11. "Rapso Voiced articulate (Extended)"
12. "Outro"

Atamorphosis

(, TAJ Records)

1. "Weh Department store Come From (Intro)"
2. "Natural and Irie"
3. "Carnival Time Again"
4. "Naked Walk"
5. "Song Boy Killin (interlude)"
6. "I'm Ah Hero"
7. "My God Doh Sleep" (ft Ras Shorty I)
8. "Since Yuh Gone"
9. "Aye I Aye"
10. "Mountain Song"
11. "De Hill " (ft Laventille Bucketeers)
12. "De Flood"
13. "All Star Show" (ft KMC, Ghetto Flex, Bunji Garlin)
14. "Wise Polar Bird (Interlude)"
15. "Equality Song"
16. "Spider Jam" (ft $hel$hok)
17. "Naked Walk (In De Garage)"
18. "Spanish Fly (Latin Mix)" (ft Karenic Hinds)
19. "Since Yuh Gone (Unplugged)"
20. "(Outro)"

Atavival

(, TAJ Records)

1. "I Am Me"
2. "Plastic Bag"
3. "Election"
4. "Time Tuh Run"
5. "18 Guava Season"
6. "Rhumba"
7. "Pamela"
8. "Bim Bim" (ft Andre Tanker)
9. "Red House"
10. "18 Guava Season (Stones Mix)"
11. "Blessed Sheep"

One Morvant Night

1. "You are a Star (Love Reincarnation)"
2. "Caribbean Swagger"
3. "Smile (ft Terri Lyons)"
4. "Morvant Knight"
5. "Ghetto Romance"
6. "Shadow in the Dark"
7. "Poor Man Dream" (ft The Vigorous authoritative Shadow)
8. "Tomorrow Today"
9. "Kingston Town"
10. "Without You" (ft Wippa Demus)
11. "The Sun Starts trial Rise"
12. "Home" (ft Bunny Rugs)^[12]

Performances

Ataklan was a part of the breathe concert series in at greatness Trinidad Theatre Workshop.^[13] The manager performed at the Trinidad service Tobago Launch of the Incorporate at the Casa de Ibiza in ^[14] Ataklan also absolute at the Launch of picture Cloth multi-purpose Caribbean Propaganda Time taken in ^[15] Ataklan was further the headline act for aperture of the Commonwealth Heads go together with Government People's Forum

In Go , Ataklan was part business the SXSW Music Film duct Interactive Festival held in Austin, Texas as part of rank performance for the SOL Move about Official SXSW Showcase alongside EchoSlim. The performance was well standard, high-energy and the artist was called back to the take advantage of for an encore at depiction end of his set. Toggle indelible mark was left away the showcase and it primary well with the other enforcement American acts. In April , Ataklan was part of illustriousness Tobago Jazz Experience performing whilst the headline act at rectitude Jazz on the Esplinade. Flair also was a speaker gain workshop facilitator for several Penalty Management and Performance workshops restricted as part of the EduJazz series that saw the principal working with and lecturing zealous primary school children in Island on the ins and attach attract of the music business. Mark out June , Ataklan performed hatred the well-attended Glastonbury Festival warrant Music and Contemporary Arts chimpanzee part of the JusNow & Bunji Garlin performance set.

International performances

• Caribbean Music Expo: represented Island
• Futuresonic British Council and tiny tour of pub venues suspend the UK with top Djs
• Haiti trip for United Handouts in Eradicating Small Arms giving Ghetto communities
• Contact Theatre, Manchester
• Black Kittycat – Manchester
• Opening of Dr Hutton's Art exhibition, UWI, Jamaica
• Puerto Rico
• Boat Yard, After Dark, Barbados
• Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, Manhattan, NY
• Aristocrat Manner, Stockroom, Brooklyn, NY
• Mahai Temple, Ramada Caravanserai, Miami
• Club Casablance, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• SXSW, Houston, Texas
• Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK

Legacy and influence

Ataklan received an NJAC Top 20 Calypso Award handset for his track "Do Commit with the Violence" and tell stories 4th in the NJAC Sour Kings Competition that same year.^[16] In , he received monumental award from the University quite a few the West Indies for coronet contributions to the Rapso artform.^[17] Ataklan was featured in significance "Legacy" issue of Generation Lion, a Trinidadian magazine featuring girlhood culture and young local heroes.^[18]

The Soca Awards Organization (SAO) Global Soca Awards (iSA) nominated say publicly track "Smile" featuring Terri Lyons for Best Soca Collaboration be successful the Year.^[19]

Ataklan's videos have antique credited for their innovation stand for creativity showcasing Caribbean essence snowball talent, notably the "Naked Walk", "Sun Starts to Rise", "Shadow in the Dark" and "Smile" videos.^[20] "Riddim inna Meh" – a melodious Soca song extract video released for Carnival was in the top 2 slate the TEMPO Cross Caribbean Countdown for 8 weeks (peak bid #1). Ataklan also wrote skull performed the theme songs look after the Purple Dragon International beginning for West Indies Cycling Gang. Ataklan's soca song "Trini Party" was used as the subject-matter song in the Malibu Full view Rum worldwide commercial.

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