World culture, contemporary cinema, the arts and geopolitics as seen from a Caribbean perspective: interviews, music, literature, art, cinema reviews, political analyses.
FANTASTIC 5 : Super heroes of traditional Carnival
Five super heroes of Trinidad & Tobago cultural history - Dexter "Dancing Jim Bill" Sobers(FIRE DANCE), Edgar Whiley(BAT MAN), Theresa Morilla Montano(MINSTREL LADY), Narie Approo(BLACK INDIAN) & Brian Honoré(ROBBER TALK) - expound on their icon tradional Carnival characters in excerpts from a documentary motion picture series directed by yAo Ramesar.
FIRE DANCE 00:00-12:20
BAT MAN 12:21 - 19:28
MINSTREL LADY 19:29 - 29:11
BLACK INDIAN 29:13 - 41:58
ROBBER TALK 41:59 - 56:26
7 Feb 2024
Man of Steel - Ellie Mannette
At the turn of the last century, steel pan pioneer Ellie Mannette was filmed in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the subject of a documentary, ‘Man of Steel’, by Caribbeing® founder, Yao Ramesar.
Mannette, who can justifiably lay claim to the title of father of the modern steel drum, provides here a revealing chronology of the invention and evolution of the modern steel pan in its birthplace of Trinidad.
Starting in 1930s Port of Spain when he first encountered Alexander's Ragtime Band, Mannette chronicles his myriad innovations, including turning the drums from convex to concave in 1941. He concludes with the quaduet, which he was working on at the time of this interview, a new solo instrument comprising four pans, with a near four octave range.
22 Jul 2023
Riffing with Philip Nanton : The Shake Keane Story
Caribbeing® founder yAo Ramesar caught up with Vincentian writer Philip Nanton on a beach in Barbados, where he resides, to down a couple beers & talk about his seminal biography of legendary Vincentian jazzman & poet, Shake Keane.
A reading from RIFF :
https://youtu.be/8Ftq0RQcm5I
Jazz & poetry by Shake Keane :
https://youtu.be/mFtbP1wQaAo
Launch of RIFF with Philip Nanton :
https://youtu.be/ANehsC28xoI
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