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🐦💔 BREAKING: THE BIRD HAS FLOWN — BUT HIS SONG WILL NEVER DIE! 💔🐦

*RIP MIGHTY SPARROW — SLINGER FRANCISCO — 1935 - FOREVER* 🇹🇹👑

Tonight, at *Panyard Desk — Panyard Universe — Railway Road, Siparia — Ellis Knights Pan Complex — THE CONCERT CAPITAL OF THE COMMUNITY* — where the tracks ended and the future began — we did not just play a song.

We taught a HISTORY LESSON.

We played his composition *"SLAVE"* — and if you never listened properly, LISTEN NOW. 🚨

*"SLAVE" IS NOT A SONG. IT IS OUR JOURNEY.*

*1. THE PLANTATION* 🪓⛓️
Sugar cane cutting our ancestors' hands. Congo to Trinidad. Shackled. Beaten. Sold.
Sparrow sang: _"You think it was easy? You think we forget?"_ NO!

*2. THE REVOLT* 🔥🥁
They banned our drums! We beat BAMBOO! 🎋
They banned bamboo! We beat STEEL! 🛢️➡️🎶
The tamboo bamboo became the steelpan — TRASH became NATIONAL INSTRUMENT! REVOLT!

*3. THE REBELLION* ✊🏾🗣️
Sparrow became the REBEL VOICE — he told the Massa, he told the Government, he told the world — with a SMILE and a DOUBLE ENTENDRE! Humor as weapon!

*4. THE LIBERATION* 🕊️🧠
Mind! Body! Soul! EVOLUTION!
Liberation is not when chains come off feet — it's when chains come off MIND!
Sparrow freed our minds!

Tonight's Panyard Desk trio:

🥁 *CHE BRITTON — DRUMS* — The Ancestral Pulse — The Plantation Drum That Survived
🎤 *CAROLYN CALLENDER — VOCALS* — The Soul — The Voice That Refused To Be Silent
✨ *AKINOLA SENNON — STEELPAN* — The Revolution & Liberation — Mind, Body, Soul Evolution

*Steelpan at the epicentre.* Not entertainment. *EVOLUTION.* Employing that which is Indigenous. 🚀

Sparrow said it all in SLAVE. One song. 400 years of history.

*BIRDIE, YOU DID YOUR JOB. NOW WE WILL DO OURS. WE WILL NOT LET THEM FORGET.* 🙏🏾

Where the tracks ended, the future began. Panyard Universe.

*RIP BIRDIE. FLIGHT DONE. SONG NEVER DONE.* 🕊️🇹🇹

Drop a 🐦👑 if Sparrow ever taught you something.

*LISTEN TO SLAVE TODAY. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN.*

#MightySparrow #RIPSparrow #SlingerFrancisco #Slave #TrinidadAndTobago Calypso HistoryLesson Plantatio

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What a wonderful concert! 🎶👏 Musicians from Germany 🇩🇪 and Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 coming together, united by the universal language of music! 🎼💛
Bravo 👏@akinola_sennon @bacaorsb @keshavtrinidad

Steelpan has truly won my heart! 💓 Just listen to these sounds.. 🎶 There’s something so special and magical about this instrument. I’m looking forward to learning more about its history, discovering its rich cultural roots, and perhaps even trying my hand at playing it one day! 🦋

This performance is a real source of inspiration! Thank you very much 🙏
@akinola_sennon
@bacaorsb
@keshavtrinidad
@wajangdiskotheque
@djshortdrop
@tillahji

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This Sunday we are Over Easy! 🍳🥂🎶

Join us for a handpicked selection of groovy vinyl and a delicious local & boozy brunch, à la carte. Let’s lime, take in some good music and enjoy the vibes.

Sunday, September 27 at Toucan.

🍳 Brunch & Vinyl vibes: 11 AM – 4 PM
🎶 Music by Lbee & Wajang Diskoteque

@djlbee
@wajangdiskotheque

No entry fee.

📍 @toucantrinidad
67A Ariapita Ave, Port of Spain

#vinyl #eclectic #groovy #brunch

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The @nts_radio Kaiso Power Show is available to listen to now 🇹🇹🔊

Selected by @wajangdiskotheque, the compilers of ‘Kaiso Power: Sound Revolution In Trinidad 1970-1980’.

The tracklist explores the music of 1970s Trinidad as an archive of the shift in consciousness that followed the Black Power Movement. Expect gems from iconic Trinidadian musicians including Andre Tanker, Michael Boothman, Clive Zanda, Ella Andall and Lancelot Layne, alongside poetry from Delano Abdul Malik Decoteau and drumming from Mansa Musa, who were both incarcerated as instigators of the 1970s protests.

In Trinidad and Tobago, Carnival has never been just about the party. Beneath the colour and celebration is a long history of anti-colonial resistance, dating back to the 1830s and the end of enslavement. Music has remained at the heart of movements for self-determination and nation-building, giving rise to globally significant sounds including steelpan, calypso, soca, chutney and rapso.

‘Kaiso Power: Sound Revolution In Trinidad 1970-1980’ is available on vinyl via the Soundway store and selected retailers, and on all streaming platforms.

#soundwayrecords #vinyl #trinidadandtobago #calypso #compilation

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🌞🐽🌞Funk im Trunk - Freiluft Spektakel
Sa. 8.08. ab 15.00
am Hochwasserbassin Hammerbrook
(Da hinterm Südpol)
* Dancemoveoperation * Funk im Trunk Poster & Tshirt (!!!) Sale * Flohmarkt * Food * Drinks * Takraw * Funtimes * Parken

DJ Sets by:
Annito (Soundshack/Hannover)
Shortdrop (Wajang Diskotheque)
Max Gyver
Zwegi

Poster: @superspray

Komm parken. Bring Freunde. Bring Familie. Bring Flohmarktstand (Tonträger, Fashion, Magazines, Kunst)(Wenn Du Stand machen willst-> DM). Bring Sonnencreme. Bring Bock.

All ages, sizes, genders, heritages welcome. Please stay human but go bananas. Bis später.

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Kaiso Power - Sound Revolution in Trinidad 1970-1980 ⚫️

Simmering songs of joy and rebellion. Superb stuff from Soundway as usual.

@soundwayrecords | @wajangdiskotheque

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When the marches ended for the night in Port of Spain, the revolution moved to the Carnival fetes and steelband yards.

Soundway and Trinidad’s Wajang Diskotheque dig deep into that world. Rare jazz, calypso and percussion from the politically conscious 70s generation, from artists who were teachers and community workers as much as musicians.

Opens with Clive Zanda and Michael Boothman back to back. That should tell you enough. Essential comp!

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OUT TODAY: Kaiso Power: Sound Revolution in Trinidad 1970 – 1980 🇹🇹

Ten rare calypso, jazz and percussive selections from the early 70s and 80s. Compiled by @wajangdiskotheque.

Kaiso Power opens a window into the revolution unfolding in Trinidad & Tobago during the 1970s - 1980s, when music was created to raise consciousness, challenge the system and reclaim power for the people.

Musicians like Lancelot Layne, Abdul Malik de Coteau, Andre Tanker, Clive Zanda and Mansa Musa used music as a tool for change 🎵

Lancelot Layne - Umbawa is a track featured on the compilation.

Lancelot Layne was a leading voice in the movement for change, active in marches and community events across Trinidad. As protests peaked in 1970, his song Blow’ Way became an unexpected anthem for a society confronting itself. Layne continued pushing radio stations to make space for a new sound rooted in Trinidad’s national language, using music to educate and empower. A key voice in the fight for an Emancipation holiday, he also scored the first reenactment of the Canboulay Riots in 1984, a year before Trinidad’s first official Emancipation Day. As told in this interview with the late Lutalo Masimba, known in the music world as Brother Resistance, Lancelot Layne played a central role in influencing the sound that became known as rapso.

Get the vinyl now via the Soundway store & selected stores and on all streaming platforms.

Interview footage from Merten Kaatz & Wajang Diskotheque.

#soundwayrecords #vinyl #trinidadandtobago #calypso #compilation

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Kaiso Power: Sound Revolution in Trinidad 1970 –1980 is officially out on May 29th 🇹🇹

A selection of rare jazz, calypso and percussive sounds from Trinidad & Tobago’s revolutionary generation of the 1970s-1980s. Music made to awaken minds, demand justice and restore power to the people.

Compiled by @wajangdiskotheque

Pre-order the vinyl with the obi strip now via the Soundway store, selected stores and on streaming platforms.

#soundwayrecords #vinyl #trinidadandtobago #calypso #compilation

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Kaiso Power: Sound Revolution In Trinidad 1970-1980 🇹🇹

Sensational Roots’ track ‘Calypso Zest’ is featured on the compilation 🎵

In the mid-1970s, the curfews had been lifted and political prisoners were released, but the echoes of Black Power were still felt in the music.

Calypso had moved past simply being the music of Carnival, it was reinvigorated with an urgent new desire for a deeper kind of storytelling that could still rock the dancefloor. Sensational Roots led by Pelham Goddard channelled those core rhythms of the people from Trinidad to the music they created both for live audiences and in studios.

By the 80s, Sensational Roots became Charlie’s Roots, a big-band sound on the Caribbean music scene that launched the career of one of the most prolific and beloved Kaisonians, David Michael Rudder.

Vinyl LP + full Digital album out May 29th. Pre-order via the Soundway Records link in our bio 🔗

Interview with Pelham Goddard courtesy Merten Kaatz/ @wajangdiskotheque #kaisopower #compilation #sensationalroots #80s #trinidadandtobago

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Kaiso Power: Sound Revolution In Trinidad 1970-1980 🇹🇹

Michael Boothman’s Family Tree track ‘Tabu’ is featured on the compilation.

@michael.boothman tells the story of his early group, Family Tree.

Family Tree represented a new generation rediscovering Trinidadian folk music forms and giving them a contemporary treatment. They were also the first to experiment with the steel pan, fusing it with the standard instrumentation of the day.

Family Tree consisted of the Boothman brothers, Michael on Guitar and David on the Keyboards, Wayne ‘Barney’ Bonaparte on bass, Dennis Thomas on drums, Earl ‘Biter’ Edwards on African drums, Allan Nightingale on percussion and Rawle Mitchell on steelpan. Rawle Mitchell was succeeded by Len ‘Boogsie’ Sharp, then a 16-year-old pan prodigy who went on to become one of Trinidad’s foremost steelpan players and composers. Andre Tanker, who plays the flute on ‘Tabu’, was another of the musicians who had made the transition from the more conservative mainstream pop music sound to embracing Trinidad’s folk forms, inspired by African, Indian and Indigenous antecedents.

Vinyl LP + full Digital album out May 29th. Pre-order via the Soundway Records link in our bio 🔗

Footage courtesy Banyan, with special thanks. #calypso #trinidad #michaelboothman #70s #compilation

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RANGELA 2026 - T&T’s 1st Desi Arrival Day Cooler Party @calabashgarden is coming up soon on Friday May 29th!

PHYSICAL TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT
@naveli_ltd - San Juan
@naveli_ltd - Coffee St. San Fernando
@india_heights - Montrose, Chaguanas
@theobliqueimperative - Tragarete Rd, POS
@toucantrinidad - Ariapita Ave, POS.

$250
Limited Early birds @ $180

#bollywood #indianarrivalday #trinidad #desi #dance

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