Upbeat (January/February 1998)
SOCA Ah Reading Iwer George (JW Records) Nine uptempo tracks from the unofficial king of fete or party music in Trinidad and Tobago. This...
The World of Rastafari
Imagine you’ve booked a holiday. You’re off to the Caribbean; maybe visiting friends on another island. But when you arrive you...
Upbeat (July/August 1998)
CHORAL One Caribbean Voice Signal Hill Alumni Choir (Sanch Electronix Ltd) Pleasantly jaunty is about the best way to describe Signal Hill...
Della Manley: A Thousand Fireflies
The colour of her voice is Blue Mountain coffee with a good dash of evap. Della Manley’s music is a vapour released by the cauldron which...
Caribbean Bookshelf (November/December 1998)
POETRY Leaving the Dark Cecil Gray (Lilibel Publications, 1998; ISBN 0-9681745-1-5) This collection of poems by Cecil Gray, his third, is a...
The Harder They Dance
We got the flava, we got the style Original Rude Girls, fresh all the while! The rousing rhythms and lyrics of this sizzling new film from...
Upbeat (May/June 1999)
CARNIVAL ’99 International Chantuelle David Rudder (Lypsoland CR 029) International Chantuelle is a mirror of Trinidad: the sacred and...
Remembering the One Love Concert for Peace
It seems like just yesterday. But the most famous concert in the history of reggae music — probably in the history of Caribbean music in...
