Solo Steel pan - Dave Reynolds @ the Pan Explosion Festival, Nelson Mandela Bay

Cape Town Calypso by Dave Reynolds. "Calypso" is the native music of the island of Trinidad where the steelpan was created by people of mixed heritage, many of African descent. "Cape Town" is the Mother City of South Africa where people of mixed heritage have been playing music in the streets for hundreds of years surrounded by sea, mountains and all sorts of craziness mostly of a human kind. This tune, performed for the first time at the Pan Explosion Festival is an offering to the fathers of our global collective mess. Although we may struggle to forgive them, they threw us together and forced us into new ways of making music.

Dave Reynolds plays double seconds created by Steve Lawrie steve@stevelawrie.net and tuned by Dave Parkin paninc@live.co.za

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[AfricanABC]

Lovely piece of music!

[cavemansouthafrica]

thanks ABC - we're still waiting for your new treehouse stories CD ... christmas is coming (LOL) ....!

[decozac59]

great Dave. Is there a title to your tune? ZAC

[kylexwiel]

this sounds so good

[thepancafe]

The pan cafe loves this !!!!!!!

[Panstyx]

I need some gigs in Africa too Bro!!!

[MzansiStyle]

mine eyes see only two mallets, mine ears hear one voice playing a tune, another grooving underneath - pure magic ...