Hello everyone,
What do you think is the most significant piece of pan music we have recorded? Music I should be able to source on a record....
I am looking for our equivalent of Beethoven's Ode to Joy. Something timeless, iconic, makes you stop and listen, makes you remember what you were doing when you first heard it ... (Pan in A Minor Renegades 1987?? perhaps?)
All suggestions welcome, thanks.
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Sir: The melody "Caldera's Mambo" was composed in 1955 and played on the road Carnival Monday and Tuesday by the “Syncopators Steel Band” the same year. It is understood, it was the only composition of a steel band tune composed and played by a steel band man (Caldera) at the time. The music is displayed on www.panonthenet.com Caldera Caraballo
PS: A jazzy version of the melody of Caldera's mambo can be heard on the attachment.
caldera-mambo.jpg
Caldera's mambo fast.mp3
North Stars - "Voices of Spring"
Sliver Stars - "Elizabethan Serenade"
Hello ODW.....just heard Voices of Spring ....so glad you responded to my suggestion....I did not even know that a copy of that still existed except in the annals of Radio Trinidad and they are probably not around anymore....lol.Much appreciated man....took me back quite a few years....now I have it til I pass on....thanks again man.
I suggest NLCB Fonclaire's "Pan By Storm" as arranged by Ken " Professor " Philmore; sung by Designer ... most electrifying performance.
Fonclaire "Pan by Storm" by Ken "Professor" Philmore
I would offer up Voices of Spring by the old Pan Am North Stars....going back a ways but classic...
Pan Am North Stars "Voices of Spring" (1962)
I have always liked Phase II Pan Grove "Pan Rising" and Carib Tokyo "My Band".
Pan Rising' by Phase II Pan Groove
DESTINATION TOKYO "MY BAND"
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