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Trinidad Steel Combo - Steel Drums from the Caribbean Islands (1995)
Posted by Sisca Cute Love U in *Music*, *South and Central America*, Caribbeans, Trinidad and Tobago on Friday, January 9, 2009
«The Steel Drum, or Pan, is a unique instrument, and one of the most recently invented. It is a skillfully hammered 55-gallon oil drum which has been carefully tuned to produce tones. The Steel Drum carries the full chromatic range of notes, and can produce just about any type of music you can think of! During British Colonial rule of Trinidad in the 1800's, hand drums were used as a call for
Putumayo Presents Carnival (2001)
Posted by Sisca Cute Love U in *Africa*, *Music*, *North America*, *South and Central America*, Barbados, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S.A., Venezuela on Tuesday, February 5, 2008
«Carnival, the ecstatic release of carnal desire in the days leading up to Lent, has a long history. With its roots firmly buried in the Dionysian festivities of ancient Greece, the celebration was appropriated by the Romans for their Bacchanalian homage and then adapted by Roman Catholics to fit pre-Ash Wednesday festivities. Celebrated by Catholics and Bacchanalians alike, contemporary carnival
