If we took the best calypso musicians from New York and Toronto and then from St .Thomas right down through the Caribbean into Trinidad and then to Guyana -- could we produce a CALYPSO EQUIVALENT of that show?
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We have the artists, and we have talented people capable of fantastic productions if given the opportunity.
The problem is, like with panorama videos for example, we think profit before anything else, including quality.
We do not see such productions as promotional, and as investments in the culture , but as vehicles for immediate profit
Plus , it seems that the ones with the capabilities of such productions are unwilling to make the necessary investments.
Exactly Glenroy, D Trini mentality is the spend small money and look for BIG profit. This does not mean that they don't have the talent to produce something good.
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Well, I have the utmost confidence in the global marketability of CALYPSO MUSIC ... once it is polished for FOREIGN APPRECIATION. You know, I can almost hear the R&B flavoured CALYPSO HORNS blasting from that stage.
Here is another project that was very well produced outside of the studio... Just great vision and excellent musicianship...
We started the song with Carlos Varela in Havana and it features over 75 Cuban musicians around the world, from Havana and Santiago to Miami, Barcelona and Tokyo. We recorded and produced this track with Jackson Browne, who explains that "traveling with Playing For Change across Cuba was one of the most rewarding and inspiring musical experiences of my life."
Might just be the best music video I have ever seen. I have to think about it!!! At least, it is the MOST SOULFUL!!!
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/gauntanamera-guantanamera.html#ixzz3u...
Guantanamera
[Estribillo:]
Guantanamera, guajira guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera
Yo soy un hombre sincero, de donde crece la palma
Yo soy un hombre sincero, de donde crece la palma
Y antes de morir yo quiero cantar mis versos del alma
[Estribillo]
Cultivo una rosa blanca, en julio como en enero
Cultivo una rosa blanca, en julio como en enero
Para el amigo sincero, que me da su mano franca
[Estribillo] (2x)
Mi verso es de un verde claro, y de un carmín encendido
Mi verso es de un verde claro, y de un carmín encendido
Mi verso es un ciervo herido, que busca en el monte amparo
[Estribillo] (2x)
Guantanamera
Chorus))
Guantanamera, guajira* (Peasant) guantanamera
Guantanamera, guajira, guantanamera
I'm a sincere man , I'm from where growing palm (leaf), I'm a sincere man , I'm from where growing palm leaf
and before I die I want to sing my verses of my soul
Chorus
I cultivate a white rose, in july as well as January
I cultivate a white rose in july as well as january,
to my sincere friend, who give me sincerity
(2 x)
My verse is like a light green colour and also carmine
My verse is like a light green colour and also carmine
My verse is an injured serf which looks for refuge/protection
Chorus 2x))
the lyrics to the song relate to a woman from Guantánamo, with whom he had a romantic relationship, and who eventually left him. The alleged real story behind these lyrics is that she did not have a romantic interest in him, but merely a platonic one. If the details are to be believed, she had brought him a steak sandwich one day as a present to the radio station where he worked. He stared at some other woman (and attempted to flirt with her) while eating the sandwich, and his friend yanked it out of his hands in disgust, cursed him and left. He never saw her again. These words are rarely sung today
Another history behind the chorus and its lyrics ("Guantanamera … / Guajira Guantanamera …") is similar: he was at a street corner with a group of friends and made a courteous pass (a polite pick-up line, like "your mother made you good" or "you came from a star", piropo in Spanish) to a woman (who also happened to be from Guantánamo) who walked by the group. She answered back rather harshly, offended by the pass. Stunned, he could not take his mind off her reaction while his friends made fun of him; later that day, sitting at a piano with his friends near him, he wrote the song's main refrain.
Claude here are some brass men and woman who hit their notes every time. A look at what great live calypso production could be.
Claude that Tribute was a FIRST CLASS PRODUCTION with state of the art equipment. True professionals at work.
I doubt Shelia E would accept anything LESS. We are NOT there YET. IF you find an investor/promoter willing to spend the MONEY to make it a reality I'll be the FIRST to buy my ticket or DVD of the show. Where will that show to be held, not at NAPA or Moka?
No disrespect to our famous musicians of CLASS Ron, Clarence, Joey, Diaz, Ray Sylvester, Roy Cape, Ellie Matt and the many others not mention. Eddie Grant tried something but we still playing catch-up...
ODW I agree with you. It is about the minimum standards that people are willing to have their names associated with.
Trini do not produce for global consumption, but I believe we have people with talent to match anyone. We are looking at them with foreign eyes. Trini man thinking Boot Leg allyuh thinkin state of the art.
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