by Dalton Narine
Global - If, as DJs have circulated, Carnival 2013 was regaled by some 4,000 festival songs, then the dream of the whole lot has been Sapna, a bit of cross-genre music in which our culture is courted by a love story and treated with lavish respect and due regard. It is a mashup that evolved from many minds.
Subtitled the Dream, the chutney soca ballad, sung by Gerelle Forbes, and composed by Ray Holman and Fazad “Joe” Shageer, awakens the senses with a dose of reality. It alludes to a progressive shift in the political and cultural sensibility while digging out retro indifference or attitude to the realism of our times.
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Mr Narine, you surely have a gift of putting words together, pan and pan people can only benefit from your work.
Cecil:
One of the pleasures of being a writer is that his or her work is appreciated by the reader.
Not that the stringer of words and sentences should be concerned about the story reaching everyone in the same way at any level, be it educationally, truthfully, or otherwise, but that it moves him or her as art in the act of informing.
In that regard, grateful I am to receive your note. Extremely satisfying.
All the best.
Dalton
Cecil: Put some words together and tell us about your TRIP TO TRINIDAD!