iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
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Caribbean music, from the earliest recorded by notation and disc to digital, captures emotions and sounds that define a melting pot of influences and commonalities. This blog is a collection of critical appraisals of music performance and recordings from the Caribbean, and opinions on the business of music here.
iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
1M ago
Nigel Campbell joins host Dominic Kalipersad and operator Roger Lee as they have a discussion on the proliferation of Trinibad and zess music, its popularity, and the negative effects of the lifestyle associated with the relatively new genre from Trinidad and Tobago. A historical context, and a broader look at parallel genres like gangsta rap ..read more
iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
1M ago
An edited version of this article was published in the T&T Newsday entitled, “Hector Lewis on his role in Bob Marley: One Love“ Imagine if you will, that you are casually checking email after a concert on your 2022 West coast US music tour supporting your recent record, and see an email from Emmy Award-winning ..read more
iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
2M ago
An edited version of this article appeared in the TY&T Newsday as, “Etienne Charles celebrates road march history in concert“ Etienne Charles’s engagement with the Carnival and its music is ongoing — his albums Kaiso (2011) and Carnival: The Sound of a People, Vol. 1 (2017) and the subsequent live performances here, the evolution of ..read more
iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
2M ago
An edited version of this article was published in the T&T Newsday as “Stripped Carnival Magic was more spectacle than spectacular“ If a patron went to Teddyson John’s Stripped: Carnival Magic concert at NAPA last evening with no knowledge of the breadth of the advertised cast — seven stars in the soca/nu calypso pantheon, and ..read more
iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
2M ago
An edited version of this article appeared in the TY&T Newsday as, “Etienne Charles celebrates road march history in concert“ Etienne Charles’s engagement with the Carnival and its music is ongoing — his albums Kaiso (2011) and Carnival: The Sound of a People, Vol. 1 (2017) and the subsequent live performances here, the evolution of ..read more
iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
2M ago
An edited version of this article was published in the T&T Newsday as “Stripped Carnival Magic was more spectacle than spectacular“ If a patron went to Teddyson John’s Stripped: Carnival Magic concert at NAPA last evening with no knowledge of the breadth of the advertised cast — seven stars in the soca/nu calypso pantheon, and ..read more
iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
2M ago
An edited version of this article was published in the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday on 30 January 2024 Saint Lucian soca star Teddyson John returns to the Lord Kitchener Auditorium, NAPA on Wednesday 31 January, for the second consecutive year to deliver his unique grand soca cabaret concert Stripped: Carnival Magic to audiences here in ..read more
iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
3M ago
Take Two Sunday hosts Dominic Kalipersad speaks to Music Matters: The Caribbean Edition host Nigel A. Campbell and digital strategist on the ins and outs, and necessity of soca artists having a digital marketing strategy for their career and the music in general. As the 2024 Carnival season heats up in Trinidad, they look at ..read more
iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
3M ago
An edited version of this article appears in the November/December issue of Caribbean Beat magazine as “All Aboard, ship ahoyThe Deal”. Live music performance in the Caribbean over many years has evolved beyond what one Caribbean writer decades ago noted as, “[taking] pleasure in living up to the ideals of the tourist brochure.” Diverse island ..read more
iRADIO.tt Blog + Journal: Appraisal, Opinion, Information
5M ago
These reviews appear in the September/October 2023 issue of Caribbean Beat Magazine. The Lone Pilgrim Woods (Jamwax) Trinidadian Wilfred Trevor Woodley — “Woods” to his friends and associates — was a prolific composer, and innovative jazz musician, whose oeuvre was disappointingly never professionally recorded before his death in 2010. His life was one of pioneering creativity, and ..read more