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<i>Kaiso Stories</i>

Kaiso Stories

2011 studio album by Other Dimensions In Music

Kaiso Stories is an album by free jazz collective quartet Other Dimensions In Music featuring vocalist Fay Victor, which was recorded in 2010 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. The album is a collection of improvised pieces with classic Calypso lyrics from Trinidad and Tobago. Kaiso is the precursor to the modern Calypso.[1]

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The JazzTimes review by Lloyd Sachs notes that Fay Victor "reawakens cultural history, addressing political and religious topics as well as boy-girl and life-and-death themes with manic chants, raspy shouts and patois-inflected spoken recitations."[3]

Stanley Zappa of The Free Jazz Collective wrote: "In a civilized world with a forward thinking music industry and curious listenership, in a culture a where Art was as valued as everyone likes to say it is, Kaiso Stories would be a cross-over sensation, charting for months and finding a grateful audience that no Improvised music had found before. Until such time, it is one for the initiated to treasure."[2]

The New York City Jazz Record included the album on their "Best of 2011 / Albums of the Year" list.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Maryanne Revisited" - 13:33
  2. "Three Friends Advised" - 15:24
  3. "Kitch Goes Home"- 7:36
  4. "Saltfish Refried" - 10:46
  5. "John Gilman Wants Tobacco" - 1:57
  6. "An Open Letter" - 10:02
  7. "De Night A De Wake"- 6:45
  8. "We Is We Trini" - 8:24

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    Kaiso Stories at Silkheart Records
  2. [2]
    Zappa, Stanley (April 4, 2011). "Other Dimensions In Music: Kaiso Stories". The Free Jazz Collective. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  3. [3]
    Sachs, Lloyd. Kaiso Stories review at JazzTimes
  4. [4]
    "Best of 2011". The New York City Jazz Record. January 2012. p. 27.
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