Various Artists, Calypso Calaloo - 42m 41s

Tracks & Durations

1. Trinidad Carnival	2:47
2. La impresion	3:11
3. Buddy Abraham	2:39
4. African War call	2:54
5. Lis Camille	2:03
6. Petrol	3:11
7. Yaraba Shango	3:04
8. Uncle Jo' Gimme Mo	3:11
9. The lajobless	2:42
10. Legnum Vital	3:02
11. Back to my West Inida Home	3:22
12. Rum and Coca Cola	4:16
13. Introduction of steelsbandsmen	0:29
14. Last train to San Fernando	2:24
15. L'anne Passee	0:26
16. Walter Winchell	2:49

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Review

Rounder Records deserves much praise for brightening up the often dull and familiar American pop musicscape with a flurry of releases that challenge our stereotypical view of "island music." This is particularly true of the music of Trinidad and Tobago, identified in the American popular mind with the synthetic Calypso-meets-disco sound of soca. While soca is a more complex and worthy genre than some opine, it's associated less with Calypso's social protest and hilariously witty innuendo than with less-graceful expressions like popular soca artist Arrow's sexual request in "Winey Winey" to "winey winey 'pon your pum-pum." This fascinating CD puts the gleam on the fine old wood of the earliest Calypso songs, featuring wonderfully baroque orchestrations from the finest T&T Calypso orchestras from 1914 to the '50s, with elegant keyboard passages, swooning strings, snaking horns, exotic male choruses with African overtones, and the sublime vocals of seminal Calypsonians such as Lionel Belasco, Roaring Lion, Babb and Williams, Houdini, Lord Executor, and Lord Invader. This collection of treasures from the Smithsonian, other archives, and commercial studios transformed a series of tracks by the set's producers into a heady taste of carnival through the decades. Calypso Calaloo is actually the aural accompaniment to Donald R. Hill's written volume Calypso Calaloo: Early Carnival Music in Trinidad, a fascinating account of that island's music pioneers, its world-famous annual carnival, and the culture that spawned it. --Elena Oumano

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