By Various Contributors ● Issue 92 (July/August 2008)
CD reviews (July/August 2008)
Good music in any language Handed a clutch of Putumayo CDs for review earlier this year, I was excited, as Putumayo has a reputation for...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 89 (January/February 2008)
CD reviews (January/February 2008)
TRINI GOLD Soca, Calypso, Rapso & More – The Best of Trinidad Music of the Past 15 Years! Rituals Music The cover of Trini Gold...
Culture, Music, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Kim Johnson ● Issue 85 (May/June 2007)
West Indian Rhythm: “The real native music”
West Indian Rhythm: Trinidad Calypsos on world and local events featuring the censored recordings 1938-1940 Various Artists (Bear Family...
Culture, Music, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 77 (January/February 2006)
New wave of Trinidad music
THEIR TIME NOW Even calypso purists know — with their brains, that is — that as Carnival’s social context changes, so must the music...
Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 75 (September/October 2005)
Lyrics man: David Rudder
I was talking music with my good friend Victor the other day. Victor, you should know, is Trini to de bone — a walking encyclopedia of...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 59 (January/February 2003)
Catching the Carnival Jumbie
Trinidad’s Kilimanjaro School Waving water pistols and flags, they race through the streets, scrambling against one another, covered...
By Georgia Popplewell and Michael Goodwin ● Issue 56 (July/August 2002)
New music from the Caribbean (July/August 2002)
SOCA A Thread of Hope Chalkdust (Juba) Chalkdust (real name: Hollis Liverpool, Ph.D.) and Black Stalin (real name: Leroy Calliste, no Ph.D....
Music, Reviews, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
By Jeremy Taylor, Georgia Popplewell and Michael Goodwin ● Issue 55 (May/June 2002)
New music from the Caribbean (May/June 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH The Soca Switch 8: The Stars of Soca Various Artists (JW Productions, jwcl238 ) Soca Colours 4 Various Artists (JW...