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Zionomi’s 2011 Shade Red album is a 13 track compilation that is reminiscent of his self-released 2008 Love of Reality EP and features remixes of “Wherever You Are” featuring Jamaican artist Indian also “Love How You Whining So” featuring Bobby Bling. Each track paints a different shade of red, a color that is psychologically evocative and powerful. Red can have different meanings to various persons. Tracks like “Guns Like These” echo the rise in crime and violence that is bloodshed in the streets. Creole songs “Cah-Wey (Living the Rich Life)” and “Kon Sa” meaning ‘Like That’ speaks of the sacrifices that the less fortunate and hungry have to bear because the powers that be made it ‘like that’. They vividly depict the daily sacrifices of the poverty-stricken living in the inner-cities and ghettoes while the privileged revel (‘paint the town red’) in their prosperity. Red also signifies passionate love as is evoked in the tracks “Come and Love Me (Emergency)”, “Wherever You Are” and “Just A Friend”. On the highly infectious Ragga-Soca song “Love How You Whining So” he asks the seductively attractive woman who has stole the spotlight, “… every man wanna know ‘Who are You?’” She must be the ‘lady in Red’ because she stirs up a curiosity on the dancefloor, “… where di gal from no one don’t know, but when she reach up pon di floor” as she brings the heat with her persuasive moves, “… whining up fast and whining slow, set di whole place on fire!” His 2010 international hit song
