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Music for the Masses: Soca Bacchanal 2024
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Hosted by Neva E. Wartell.
How de music sweet so! Labor Day weekend is the time for "liming" with family and friends, so mek wi party – West Indian style! In this broadcast we feature a fresh selection of carnival soca from (mostly) Trinidad & Tobago and invite you to join the bacchanal, fête, jump-up – whatever you choose to call it, it's a celebration of Mas (masquerade), from Port of Spain, Trinidad to Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.
"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid globe-hopper and armchair traveler alike. You might want to pack a map and a sandwich. Catskill resident "DJ Neva" is an ethnomusicologist, producer, and long-time cultural activist, specializing in music from the entire African continent, as well as the Caribbean and Latin America, the Maghreb and Middle East, and the Roma (Gypsy) diaspora. Formerly the producer of "Continental Drift" on WBAI-FM and New York International on Haitian community station Radio Soleil in NYC. The show is broadcast live from Catskill, NY.
Playlist:
- Take Your Time (Do It Right) / S.O.S. Band
- IzWE / Kes
- Calypso / V'ghn
- The Meeting Place / Hugh Masekela
- Mid Section / Freetown Collective
- The Spirit / Machel Montano
- Jam Of The Year / Nailah Blackman
- To My Ex / Nessa Preppy
- Mind Yuh Business / Raymond Ramnarine
- Today / Bunji Garlin
- Gimme D' Road (feat. Destra) / Calypso Rose
- Something Special / Fay-Ann Lyons
- D N A / Mical Teja
- Gimme d Ting / Rae
- Beatin Road (Remix) / Preedy
- In the Center / GBMNutron feat. Farmer Nappy
- Nice Man / Hurricane
- Foreigner (feat. Edday) / Carlyn XP
- Keep Jammin' On / DJ Private Ryan
- One ah Dem / Shal Marshall, Keith Currency, Imani Ray, Problem Child
- Meet We Down Dey / Patrice Roberts
- Ah Love It Here / Ricardo Drue
- Impossible / Problem Child
- Soca Legislation / Teddyson John
- Carnival Contract / Bunji Garlin
- Tabanca / Etienne Charles, Terri Lyons
- Everytime / Nadia Batson
- Life Is a Beach / Problem Child
- Soca Eden / Destra