Pan Sweet Pan

Track Listing

Woman on the Bass – Neal & Massy Trinidad All Stars
Play My Music – Exodus
Pan In A Rage _ Amoco Renegades
Toco Band _- Rising Stars
In My House – PCS Nitrogen Starlift
Trini Know How – Birdsong
Carnival Is We - Fonclaire

PAN SWEET PAN
Steelbands Of The Caribbean

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Pan Sweet Pan

Panorama Hits In A Cool Tempo Seventy Eight Minutes Of Music Showcasing Pan's Symphonic Elements

Caribbean Steelbands

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PANORAMA

Panorama is a unique steelband competition indigenous to the culture of Trinidad and Tobago, inaugurated during the Carnival Season of 1963. Steel orchestras consisting of between 20 and 120 members playing Panorama Music compete before a panel of judges for the title of Panorama Champions. The competition is usually held in three phases- preliminary, semi-finals and finals.

Panorama Music is a ten-minute steelband arrangement of the melody of a calypso, which is originally about ninety seconds to two minutes long. These arrangements when fully exploited are varied, interesting and challenging. The structure of a typical arrangement includes an introduction, statement of the melody, harmonic and melodic developments, changes of key, changes of rhythm, modulations, improvisations and a finale.

This album is a compilation of Panorama compositions played at reduced tempo, and recorded live at steelband panyards in Trinidad and Tobago and St. Thomas. It is intended to demonstrate the principles of sound-staging as applied to large steelband ensembles. Panorama Music is intrinsically sweeter when played at coasting speed and this allows the listener to understand more clearly how these complex arrangements are structured.

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THE STRUCTURE OF A TYPICAL PANORAMA ARRANGEMENT

Calypso – Pan in a Rage

Composer – Winston Scarborough (de Fosto)

Calypsonian – de Fosto

Publisher – Sanch Music

Orchestra – Amoco Renegades led by George Duncan

Arranger – Jit Samaroo

Musicians – 34 Tenors, 6 Double-tenors, 16 Double-seconds, 6 Double-guitars, 7 Triple-cellos, 8 Four-cellos, 5 Quadrophonics, 4 Four-tenor basses, 6 Six-tenor basses, 6 Six-basses, 4 Nine-basses, 18 Rhythm section. Total 120

Recording date – 16/17 February, 1996. 10.00pm – 3.30am

Venue – Panyard, 138 Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad

Engineer – Simeon L. Sandiford

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REAL TIME MUSICAL STATUS

min	sec
0	00	Panyard ambiance.
0	14	"Count" and Introduction in A flat.
0	48	Crescendo.
0	55	Verse.
1	35	First part of chorus.
2	13	Second part of chorus.
2	28	Third part of chorus.
2	39	Variation on de Fosto’s original "bridge". Cellos play melody.
2	58	Reharmonization of verse. Tenors take lead. Background pans play counter melody.
3	09	Cellos play melody. Tenors solo on verse.
3	39	Variation on first part of chorus. Tenors play melody.
3	49	Tenors play chromatic "run". Basses play melody.
3	58	Double-seconds, Double-tenors and Four-pans play melody.
4	18	Variation on second part of chorus. Basses play melody.
4	26	Tenors and Double-tenors play descending chromatic "run".
4	33	Tenors play variation on melody.
4	43	First "bridge" to change to second key. E flat.
5	00	Double-seconds solo on melody.
5	42	Cellos solo. Tenors accompany.
6	17	Chromatic "run".
6	21	"Jam". Basses play melody.
6	35	Double-seconds, Double-tenors play unison passage.
6	37	Basses solo.
7	01	Second "bridge" to change to third key. G.
7	16	Tenors, Double-tenors solo on verse.
7	58	Crescendo to change to fourth key, E minor.
8	11	"Chutney" variation on first part of chorus.
8	41	Variation continues on third part of chorus. Tenors, Double-tenors and Four-cellos simulate tassa drums.
9	09	Modulation to change key back to G.
9	12	"Jam" on first part of chorus.
9	39	Crescendo.
9	42	"Jam" on second part of chorus.
9	49	Double-seconds, Double-tenors, Cellos play unison passage.
9	52	"Jam" continues on second part of chorus. Basses play melody.
9	57	Entire orchestra plays third part of chorus.
10	04	de Fosto’s original introduction. Cellos and Double-tenors play melody. Tenors "run" in semi-quavers.
10	25	Modulation to change to original key, A flat.
10	35	Double-tenors and Four-cellos play melody. Tenors "run" in semi-quavers.
10	55	Reharmonization of verse.
11	36	Jam in "dub" on second "bridge".
11	51	Drum solo.
11	56	Chorus.
13	07	de Fosto’s original "jam".
13	17	Tenors, Double-tenors and Four-cellos play unison passage.
13	22	Finale.

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PANORAMA

Panorama es una única competencia de bandas de acero indígena a la cultura de Trinidad y Tobago, inaugurada durante la Epoca de Carnaval de 1963. Orquestas de acero consistiendo entre 20 y 120 miembros tocando la Música de Panorama compiten ante un jurado de jueces por el título de Campeones de Panorama. Normalmente la competencia tiene lugar en tres etapas - preliminares, semi-finales y finales.

La Música de Panorama es una adaptación de diez minutos de la melodia de un calipso que es originalmente de noventa segundos a dos minutos. Estas adaptaciones, plenamente explotadas son variadas, interesantes y estimulantes. La estructura de una adaptación típica incluye una introducción, afirmación de la melodia, desarrollos armónicos y melódicos, cambios de tonos, cambios de ritmo, modulaciones, improvisaciones y un final.

Este álbum es una compilación de composiciones de Panorama tocadas a un ritmo reducido, y grabadas en vivo en las casas de bandas de acero en Trinidad y Tobago y San Tomás. Tiene la finalidad de demostrar los principios de sound-staging, aplicados a los grandes conjuntos de bandas de acero. La Música de Panorama es mucho más dulce siendo tocada a coasting speed y esto permite que el oyente entienda más claramente cómo son estructuradas estas adaptaciones complejas.

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Review

CD sweetens pan's future
By Wayne Bowman

HERE is an opportunity to contribute to the development of pan, while enjoying music created and performed on the instrument.

The Pan Sweet Pan CD collection is a revenue-generating project, embarked upon by the Sanch recording label on behalf of the Pan Development Fund.

Monies raised for the fund will be invested in technological research and development, as well as promoting the pan and its music on an international level.

The seven-track CD offers a running time of over 78 minutes, during which you will be entertained by some of the world's top steel orchestras.

You'll enjoy some of the most loved Pan-orama selections of 1999. Listeners will even be taken back almost two decades, to enjoy a performance of one of the most loved pan tunes ever composed.

Simeon Sandiford, who has made significant contributions to the development of the local recording industry by introducing new techniques in production and engineering, serves as the project's producer.

Sandiford carefully selected the pieces, intent on giving the consumer value for money, even if he were simply purchasing the CD to help the cause.

The opening track brings with it nostalgia, as the Neal and Massy Trinidad All Stars perform the classic Scrunter number, "Woman On The Bass". That familiar melody awakens the spirit, as cherished memories of that era come alive.

More reflections of days gone by as track two kicks off, and the Exodus Steel Orchestra performs the Mighty Sparrow's, "Play My Music". Jit Samaroo then shares centre-stage with his Renegades for a rendition of DeFosto's, "Pan In A Rage".

Even a band known as The Rising Stars, based in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, got in on the action, offering its interpretation of Kitchener's, "Toco Band". Veteran band PCS Starlift delivers an exciting 14-minute rendition of Oba Sy-nette's, "In My House" as arranged by Annise Hadeed.

The groovy mood is maintained as Tunapuna based Birdsong Steel performs "Trini Know How To Party". Fonclaire brings the pan party to a close with the last arrangement done for the band by Ken 'Professor' Phil-more, "Carnival Is We".

Pan Sweet Pan has been recorded using a newly developed 24-bit HDCD recording pro-cess. Even the packaging has received special attention. Artist Ken Scott created a lovely piece that was used for the inner sleeve.

Pan Sweet Pan looks sweet, sounds sweeter, and through your patronage, will sweeten the future of Trinidad and Tobago's national instrument.

Track Listing

PAN SWEET PAN Steelbands Of The Caribbean

PANORAMA

THE STRUCTURE OF A TYPICAL PANORAMA ARRANGEMENT

REAL TIME MUSICAL STATUS

Review

CD sweetens pan's future By Wayne Bowman

PAN SWEET PAN
Steelbands Of The Caribbean

CD sweetens pan's future
By Wayne Bowman