By Essiba Small ● Issue 101 (January/February 2010)
CD Reviews – January/February 2010
Karmageddon Karma The Bissambhar siblings, Nisha, Ravi and Anil, are at it again with a hot and peppery album that cleverly fuses the...
Culture, Music, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Essiba Small ● Issue 113 (January/February 2012)
Music for the mas
Soca singers are hardly putting out albums for Carnival – have you noticed? Instead they are churning out singles, via either radio...
Culture, Arts, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Essiba Small ● Issue 113 (January/February 2012)
Bands of the year
If you didn’t get the memo, it’s probably too late. Many Carnival bands have been sold out since last September (never mind some...
By Essiba Small ● Issue 109 (May/June 2011)
CD Reviews – May/June 2011
Big Yard Presents Shaggy and Friends The Jamerican dancehall toaster, born Orville Richard Burrell, shoots and scores on this latest disc,...
By Essiba Small ● Issue 111 (September/October 2011)
CD Reviews (September/October 2011)
Loud Rihanna Rihanna is not the Beyoncé lookalike we met four albums ago. She’s not a soundalike, either. In fact it’s hard to put the...
By Debbie Jacob, Roxan Kinas, Essiba Small and Nazma Muller ● Issue 23 (January/February 1997)
New Music from the Caribbean
CALYPSO A Tribute To The Mighty Spoiler, Vol. 1 Various artists The Mighty Spoiler was one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most beloved...