Veteran designer and mas-maker Peter Minshall was celebrated and honoured on Dimanche Gras (Carnival Sunday) as an icon among other artists. On Carnival Tuesday, his post-nuclear sailor mas, Spiritus Mundi (World Spirit)—meshing together Mary Shelley-like elements of classic robber mas and classic sailor mas was ignominiously deleted from the airwaves during the live coverage of the parade of bands and was replaced with a pre-recorded feed of North American Indian like an Orwellian erasure.
It had a devastating effect on Minshall emotionally.
In stark contrast to the “pretty mas” that preceded his band onstage, his dystopian sailor mas came on in deathly silence accompanied by Exodus Steel Orchestra with grotesque phantom heads and skulls and white banners with gaping mouths and empty sockets in silent screams, trailing suckered tentacles in their wake to resemble a bombed-out post-apocalyptic world.
Minshall said the band was meant to make an anti-nuclear statement to show the folly of nuclear proliferation and how the world had become a more dangerous place in the age of US President Donald Trump.
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Is it possible, that some technician , the person resposible for selecting the feed at the station, thought , that the silence meant that something was wrong with the sound, and tried to fix it while showing something else while doing so? Just wondering? In which case, it would not have been and intended slight, just ignorance and incompetence.
"in the Trinidad Carnival it was all turned backwards to you like some offering animal and it was done with such gracious delight."
A whole book could be written off that one sentence from Minshall!!!
Today it looks like everything is "turned backwards" in Trinidad.
Stop the politicization of Carnival with stupid references to US politics with such diatribe.
Let's keep making mas for enjoyment and gaiety
Just another take.
The volume of inefficiency in the overall pictorial delivery of Carnival (mas) 2017 was overwhelming. What to say, no heads will roll, and those who do de stupidness, and others in authority, will say, that is nothing, it was the Greatest.
sad
he needs to know this has been happening before and thats a reason he got out
i guess this will be in the post mortem of 2017 carnival
great article by martin daly summarises it well
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Was it recorded by any other source? If not-why not? Was a film crew embedded with the band? If not-why not?