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Caribbean Free Radio #51 – 3canal: Dreaming of India (L to R) Fashion designer Robert Young of The Cloth with Wendell Manwarren and Roger Roberts of Trinidad and Tobago rapso band 3canal. Wendell and Roger are wearing jackets Robert designed for their upcoming tour of India. Caribbean Free Radio #51 is a command performance of sorts recorded at Little House, home of 2/3 of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Audiobooing I’ve had the iPhone application Audioboo for some time, but it was only today that I finally got around to using it for the first time. It’s a slick little microblogging app that lets you use the iPhone to record audio files of up to three minutes and publish them to the Audioboo web site, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #6 - brain and bamsee is one Wendell Manwarren, Jeffrey Chock, Stanton Kewley and Roger Roberts in front of Jeffrey’s house on Clifford Street, Belmont, Trinidad Episode #6 arrives a day late courtesy of the carnival week frenzy, which is not to say the show is without substance. Au contraire: in the final episode in the cut+clear carnival 2009 series, the members of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #5 - carnival is woman Trust the cut+clear carnival podcast’s most freewheeling and raucous show to date to be the one featuring women (it’s also the first CFR episode to feature explicit language!). In episode #5 the members of 3canal and I sit down backstage at Queen’s Hall with Cecilia Salazar, Dionne McNicol and Elisha Bartels, three key members of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #5 - carnival is woman Trust the cut+clear carnival podcast’s most freewheeling and raucous show to date to be the one featuring women (it’s also the first CFR episode to feature explicit language!). In episode #5 the members of 3canal and I sit down backstage at Queen’s Hall with Cecilia Salazar, Dionne McNicol and Elisha Bartels, three key members of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #4 - Bees in Belmont cut+clear carnival episode #4 takes us to Belmont, a community rich in carnival history, where we visit with Glendon Morris at the Belmont Jewels mas’ camp for a chat about the ups and downs of making traditional, hand-crafted mas’ in an age of mass production, the allure of playing fancy sailor and working with his late father, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #4 - Bees in Belmont cut+clear carnival episode #4 takes us to Belmont, a community rich in carnival history, where we visit with Glendon Morris at the Belmont Jewels mas’ camp for a chat about the ups and downs of making traditional, hand-crafted mas’ in an age of mass production, the allure of playing fancy sailor and working with his late father, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #3 - pelham & pan Stanton Kewley, Pelham Goddard and Wendell Manwarren at Pelham’s home in St. James, Trinidad In cut+clear carnival episode #3 we visit veteran producer and steel orchestra arranger, Pelham Goddard, at his home in St. James for a chat about the evolution of music for steel orchestras and 3canal’s foray into the steel band arena with Pelham [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #3 - pelham & pan Stanton Kewley, Pelham Goddard and Wendell Manwarren at Pelham’s home in St. James, Trinidad In cut+clear carnival episode #3 we visit veteran producer and steel orchestra arranger, Pelham Goddard, at his home in St. James for a chat about the evolution of music for steel orchestras and 3canal’s foray into the steel band arena with Pelham [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #2 - hosts & promoters (L to R) Curtis Popplewell, Stanton Kewley, Walt Lovelace, Wendell Manwarren, Roger Roberts in front of cut+clear productions HQ, Woodbrook, Trinidad On episode #2 of the cut+clear carnival podcast 3canal and I chat with Curtis “C*POP” Popplewell and Walt Lovelace, the men behind the Beach House Carnival fête and some of the country’s most original music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #2 - hosts & promoters (L to R) Curtis Popplewell, Stanton Kewley, Walt Lovelace, Wendell Manwarren, Roger Roberts in front of cut+clear productions HQ, Woodbrook, Trinidad On episode #2 of the cut+clear carnival podcast 3canal and I chat with Curtis “C*POP” Popplewell and Walt Lovelace, the men behind the Beach House Carnival fête and some of the country’s most original music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #1 - pilot For the 2009 carnival season I’ve teamed up with 3canal to produce a series of down and dirty (dutty?) podcasts called cut+clear carnival. We’re keeping it deliberately simple and free-flowing: the plan is for us to meet on Mondays, riff for 15 or so minutes on things carnival-related, preferably with a guest, then have the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | cut+clear carnival #1 - pilot For the 2009 carnival season I’ve teamed up with 3canal to produce a series of down and dirty (dutty?) podcasts called cut+clear carnival. We’re keeping it deliberately simple and free-flowing: the plan is for us to meet on Mondays, riff for 15 or so minutes on things carnival-related, preferably with a guest, then have the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #50 - Boom Up History Stanton Kewley, Wendell Manwarren and Roger Roberts of rapso group 3canal at cut+clear productions, Woodbrook, Trinidad Nearly four years later, CFR finally hits the half-century. For show #50 I return to the place where it all began—cut+clear productions, headquarters of CFR’s “house band”, 3canal, for a leisurely chat with Wendell, Roger and Stanton about “Boom [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #50 - Boom Up History Stanton Kewley, Wendell Manwarren and Roger Roberts of rapso group 3canal at cut+clear productions, Woodbrook, Trinidad Nearly four years later, CFR finally hits the half-century. For show #50 I return to the place where it all began—cut+clear productions, headquarters of CFR’s “house band”, 3canal, for a leisurely chat with Wendell, Roger and Stanton about “Boom [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #49 - Trinidad Noir In this long overdue show, which was recorded way back in June, I interview Lisa Allen-Agostini, co-editor, with Jeanne Mason, of Trinidad Noir, the latest in the Noir series published by Akashic Books. Lisa Allen-Agostini, writer and co-editor of Trinidad Noir Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #49 - Trinidad Noir In this long overdue show, which was recorded way back in June, I interview Lisa Allen-Agostini, co-editor, with Jeanne Mason, of Trinidad Noir, the latest in the Noir series published by Akashic Books. Lisa Allen-Agostini, writer and co-editor of Trinidad Noir Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #49 - Trinidad Noir In this long overdue show, which was recorded way back in June, I interview Lisa Allen-Agostini, co-editor, with Jeanne Mason, of Trinidad Noir, the latest in the Noir series published by Akashic Books. Lisa Allen-Agostini, writer and co-editor of Trinidad Noir Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #48 - Calabash Literary Festival 2008 Yes — a podcast. In CFR’s 48th show, a collaboration with Antilles and the Caribbean Review of Books (CRB) recorded in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, my gin and tonic-lubricated friends Annie Paul, Nicholas Laughlin, Jonathan Ali, Kei Miller, Alastair Bird and I review the first day-and-a-half of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Apologies to Chris Abani and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | [Video] Belmont Click on the image above or one of these: Quicktime | Flash Here I go again attempting to make something out of material gathered with no particular purpose in mind. Under other circumstances I’d have used a tripod and locked the shot, but the 9 still images which make up this presentation were taken hand-held. The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #47 - 3canal: Womex or bust! 3canal at the ReThePublic concert, September 2007. Photo by Jason Hagley In episode #47 I drop in on CFR’s house band, 3canal, to chat with Roger Roberts and Wendell Manwarren about last week’s ReThePublic concert; the band’s upcoming appearance at the WOMEX world music festival in Seville, Spain; and how 3canal learned to stop worrying and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bracing for Dean Click To Play play_blip_movie_348120(); These were the scenes this morning in Diego Martin, Trinidad, around 930am. Hurricane Dean isn’t even within spitting distance of us, so imagine what it must feel like in the islands further north, some of which - Dominica and Martinique, for instance - have already taken a beating, and where hurricane warnings and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #46 - A talk with Kei Miller For episode #46 CFR joins forces with Antilles, the weblog of The Caribbean Review of Books (CRB), to bring you Jamaican poet and novelist Kei Miller in conversation with CRB editor Nicholas Laughlin. You’ll also have a chance to hear Kei read two poems from his upcoming collection, There Is an Anger That Moves, which [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #46 - A talk with Kei Miller For episode #46 CFR joins forces with Antilles, the weblog of The Caribbean Review of Books (CRB), to bring you Jamaican poet and novelist Kei Miller in conversation with CRB editor Nicholas Laughlin. You’ll also have a chance to hear Kei read two poems from his upcoming collection, There Is an Anger That Moves, which [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #45 - Saved by The 3canal Show 3canal in rehearsal, March 15, 2007Dare we say that CFR the podcast is back? Episode #45 arrives complete with cheap gimmickry and, fortunately, a bit of substance provided by the members of CFR’s house band, 3canal, whom we visit during a rehearsal of the repeat performance of this year’s edition of The 3canal Show at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #45 - Saved by The 3canal Show 3canal in rehearsal, March 15, 2007 Dare we say that CFR the podcast is back? Episode #45 arrives complete with cheap gimmickry and, fortunately, a bit of substance provided by the members of CFR’s house band, 3canal, whom we visit during a rehearsal of the repeat performance of this year’s edition of The 3canal Show at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Global Voices Show #4 You people are right — I need to do more podcasts. Earlier this evening I uploaded the fourth edition of The Global Voices Show. The damn thing took me almost the entire weekend to produce. Nor would I describe it as a technical masterpiece. My podcasting muscles have turned to mush. Here it is anyway, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Global Voices Show #4 You people are right— I need to do more podcasts. Earlier this evening I uploaded the fourth edition of The Global Voices Show. The damn thing took me almost the entire weekend to produce. Nor would I describe it as a technical masterpiece. My podcasting muscles have turned to mush.Here it is anyway, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wikitravel Want visitors to have accurate information about your country? Then why not help update the Caribbean page at Wikitravel (and learn about wikis in the process). Read more about Wikitravel at the Creative Commons web site. Technorati Tags: wikis, wikitravel, creative commons, travel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Global Voices Show #3 Download GV Show #3 (AAC)Download GV Show #3 (MP3)I’ve just uploaded the third episode of the Global Voices Show over at the Global Voices site. You can listen to both versions (MP3 and Enhanced AAC) of the show by using the embedded player above, but for show notes and links please check out the post [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Global Voices Show #3 Download GV Show #3 (AAC)Download GV Show #3 (MP3)I’ve just uploaded the third episode of the Global Voices Show over at the Global Voices site. You can listen to both versions (MP3 and Enhanced AAC) of the show by using the embedded player above, but for show notes and links please check out the post [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Global Voices Show #2 Just in case there’s somebody out there who’s not watching the World Cup, I posted the second episode of the Global Voices Show in the wee hours of this morning. Off not to prepare for today’s event…. Update: Forgot to mention that this episode of the GV Show is available in two flavours, MP3 and enhanced AAC [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Global Voices Podcast Depending on the kind of CFR listener you are, the following may or may not constitute good news: Global Voices now has an “official” podcast, of which I am the host/producer (at least for now). On one hand, this could mean that CFR has become even more of a cobbler’s child. On the other, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #42 - Germany 2006 preview with Wendell Manwarren This album is powered by BubbleShareCFR is back! And what better way to celebrate my return to podcasting than by paying a visit to cut+clear productions, headquarters of 3canal, CFR’s“house band”.This time the topic isn’t the band but rather band member Wendell Manwarren, who was in Germany a few weeks ago appearing in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Haitian Bleu Finally cracked out the package of Haitian Bleu beans my dear cousin Christiana brought me this Christmas, in somewhat belated response to an appeal put out by Delphine way back in February 2005. My partner in caffeinated crime, Mark Franco, christened the Bleu by himself yesterday evening (as I can’t do coffee after 5pm), but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #39 - A Taste of Parang When the Christmas season rolls around, English-speaking Trinidad starts singing in Spanish. Episode #39 explains - briefly - the whys and wherefores of the musical form known as parang and offers a sampling of parang tunes by Los Parranderos de UWI. Play this episode using this link: Powered by Castpost Or access CFR using any of these methods: Download [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Global Voices webcast&IRC Just reminding you that the Global Voices Summit‘05 is being webcast via this link.There’s also an internet relay chat (IRC) for those who wish to participate in the discussion - instructions at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/?page_id=78.technorati tags: global voices, globalvoices, global voices london summit‘5 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #37 - 3canal premieres “Rise” Dropped in at 3canal headquarters this afternoon and next thing I knew a mini-podcast was in the offing! In down-and-dirty episode #37, CFR’s“house band” premieres“Rise”, their first single for the 2006 Carnival season, and talks about drawing inspiration from the Trinidad& Tobago football team’s recent qualification for the 2006 World Cup, their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New Caribbean Free Radio Promo! Here, at last, is CFR’s new promo. (In fact, it’s part PSA-part promo).Play it using either of these links:MP3¦ Online PlayerOr subscribe to CFR using any of these methods:RSS¦ Subscribe via iTunes¦ Subscribe via OdeoLet me know what you think, and by all means, heed its message. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Caribbean Beat Blog is live! For the past few weeks, members of the editorial team of the magazine Caribbean Beat (yours truly among them) have been testing and shaping a weblog for the magazine. Today the thing finally went“live”, and I think it’s going to be good.Check it out here, get the RSS feed here, and make sure and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bomb blast report from CNC TV It’s almost certainly a copyright violation, but I managed to make a very lousy recording of part of CNC news’s on the spot report on the bomb blast at Smokey and Bunty’s. Listen to it here.Since I recorded this CNC is reporting that five people injured,“situation very grave”.Technorati Tags: trinidad+tobago, bomb+blast, caribbeanTechnorati Tags: bomb [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #32 - Calling London In which I get on Skype with my colleague and buddy Simon Lee, erstwhile Trinidad-based journalist now back in London, and shoot the breeze on topics ranging from this year’s Notting Hill Carnival to the recent production of Derek Walcott’s“Steel” in Trinidad and the demise of the bricks-and-mortar version of Rhyner’s Record Store; and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CFR#31 download trouble/alternative link Have had several reports about download problems with the latest show and it does appear that Libsyn (the place I host my audio files) is having some difficulties.For those of you who are desperate for your CFR fix, however, I’ve uploaded another copy of the show to another server, so feel free to take a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #30 - The Comeback Show A short one just to say I’m alive, well and swamped with work, and also to thank you all for supporting CFR with donations and t-shirt purchases, with special thanks to Dave Slusher for mentioning his CFR t-shirt purchase on the Evil Genius Chronicles. I also play a PSA with info about one of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #29 - Death of a Gouti Another instalment in CFR’s Video Chronicles series (which just got established as I wrote this, by the way), in which I invite my friend and colleague Danielle Dieffenthaller to help me tell the story of the video shoot which spelt the end for one unfortunate member of the species Dasyprocta leporina. Sorry we couldn’t put [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #28 - Zero-budget videomaking, Caribbean-style This episode takes you behind the scenes of a music video shoot for rapso artist Ataklan’s“Shadow in the Dark”. Listen in as I rove the streets of Trinidad annoying the crew with endless queries as to“Where to next?” and“What’s the plan?”, talk to street vendors, babble on about various topics and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #27 - The Time is Now July was a month of shortish shows and #27 is no exception. This episode includes musings on yesterday’s power outage¦ a thank you to new listeners¦ a reminder to buy t-shirts¦ thoughts on subscribing via Odeo¦ congratulations to the Trinidad& Tobago Computer Society on being the producers of the Caribbean’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #26 - Emily Update #3. . . and more Another Emily update (with apologies to the nation of Grenada for omitting to mention that they had also taken a bit of a beating), plus musings on Trinidad and Tobago’s being featured on the Wikipedia front page¦ CFR’s scandalous omission from the iTunes podcast directory¦ Bicyclemark’s much-appreciated support¦ CFR’s alleged appearance on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #25 - Emily Update #2 Update recorded at 1:22pm(ish): I get on Skype with Janine Mendes-Franco and discuss the upgrading of Emily (hurricane warning for Tobago; hurricane watch for Trinidad), the calm in Tobago and that the Prime Minister had advised everybody to be home by 12:30pm.Weather sites:WeatherCaribNational Hurricane CenterYou can listen to this podcast in any of the following [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #24 - Tropical Storm Emily Update #1 Seems it’s all about Skype these days on CFR. With Tropical Storm Emily headed our way this morning, I get on the phone with my buddy (and favourite armchair weatherman/surfer) Walt Lovelace to discuss the weather.Walt recommends the WeatherCarib web site for all your hurricane info. The Pod Weather podcast is also carrying updates.You [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #23 - The ExplosiveEdition CFR’s first Skype hookup, in which I discuss this afternoon’s explosion in Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city, the hurricane season, the London bombings and more with my friend Janine Mendes-Franco.You can listen to this podcast in any of the following ways:MP3¦ Online Player¦ RSS FeedLinks mentioned in this podcast:Consumerwrites.com - [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #22 - Aboriginality Another dispatch from the garden, in which I talk about:The addition of the CLR James papers to the Memory of the World Register¦ Amerindian names of the Caribbean islands¦ Andy Palacio& the Garifuna in Belize¦ interview with Andy Palacio at Global HitsYou can listen to this podcast in any of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #21 - Garden State of Mind An endless series of interruptions drives me into my garden for this freewheeling episode (apologies in advance for iffy sound quality and general raggedness), in which I talk about:Why long weekends and public holidays don’t do it for me¦ Labour Day in Trinidad and Tobago and Tubal Uriah“Buzz” Butler¦ Mangoes¦ Anthuriums¦ [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CFR Special Edition - A Trinidadian in Ireland In this special edition of Caribbean Free Radio, the intrepid and erudite Nicholas Laughlin, last heard on CFR’s soundseeing tour of Mount St Benedict, takes us on a visit to the burial site of poet W. B. Yeats in the village of Drumcliff in Sligo, Ireland.As this isn’t a Caribbean subject, I didn’t want to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #18 - Back to my Roots After a series of fancy-schmancy theme shows, I revert in this episode to the good ol’ CFR formula of talk-music-talk–and I mention those other roots as well.This podcast was edited using Propaganda, by MixMeister Technology. Stay tuned for a review of my experience with Propaganda!It’s a new month, which means the voting starts from scratch [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #17 - 12 Special In which I feature music by the Trinidad& Tobago band 12 and interview 12’s front man Sheldon Holder.It’s almost the end of the month, but not too late to Vote for Caribbean Free Radio at Podcast Alley. Help us end the month in the Top 50!This podcast was edited using Propaganda, by MixMeister Technology. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #16 - Master&Commander (St. Barts Harbour Tour) In this episode Bruno Gréaux, the Harbourmaster of Gustavia, the capital of St. Barts, takes me on a tour of his domain.Photos from the tour are viewable here.You can listen to this podcast in any of the following ways:MP3¦ Online Player¦ RSS FeedLinks:Tortuga Rum Company - our sponsor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #15 - A Visit from the Beeb In this episode I turn the tables on the BBC Caribbean Service’s Franka Philip, who came to interview me on Friday. Hear the inside story on one of the few World Service stations with an increasing listenership, plus a couple of tunes on the side.You can listen to this podcast in any of the following [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caribbean Free Radio #14 - Fire In the City In which I tour the section of Port of Spain destroyed by fire on April 9, 2005 in the company of architect Mark Franco, and ponder the past, present and future of Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city.Click here to see photos of the area both during and after the incident. Thanks to Horace Ové for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |