Topic Tag: carnival music

Music, Reviews

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...

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Music, Reviews

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...

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Culture, Music, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Music, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Catching the Carnival Jumbie

Trinidad’s Kilimanjaro School Waving water pistols and flags, they race through the streets, scrambling against one another, covered...

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Music, Reviews

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....

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Music, Reviews, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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