yesterday it was fun to see the rough cut of surabhis new film on the music of the caribbean and our relationship to it. the film had some great music, brilliant performers and some thoroughly interesting people talking about it from reggae musicians and dancehall divas in jamaica to chutney musicians, bihari migrants and calypso singers in trinidad. and the music was about everything that popular music can be about- youth, rebellion, peace and harmony, love and sex.. lots of sex. raunchy and fabulous- some of the performers were not to be missed.
and then there was remo trying hard to compose some sort of fusion music with the variety of performers impromptu with sometimes good and sometimes not so good results. it was good to see a film about music; about the act of making it, its role in our lives and about how it reclaims and reimagines identity.
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