Track Listing:

CD0401-2A
Total playing time: 64:12

1. Pandora - Exodus 10:49
2. In Front The Band - Merrytones 10:36
3. Mind Yuh Business - Panch 2000 8:52
4. Ah Home - Solo Pan Knights 10:44
5. Fire and Steel - PCS Starlift 10:40
6. Music in Meh Blood - BP Renegades Youth Orchestra 8:17
7. Pan Talent (reprise) - Calyps’ Atlantic 5:34

CD0401-2B
Total playing time: 60:39

1. Obeah Wedding - Solo Pan Knights 6:13
2. Tourist Leggo - Exodus 6:56
3. Music in Meh Blood - Birdsong 9:49
4. Pan Talent - BWIA Ebony 6:35
5. Iron Band - BP Renegades 10:06
6. Trini to The Bone - Success Stars Pan Sounds 8:45
7. Pandora (reprise) - Tropical Angel Harps 13:35

The Panorama Soundstage: Steel Orchestras of Trinidad and Tobago/Europe

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2 CD set
eCaroh Price: $29.95

Review
Change The Topic And Listen To The Panorama Soundstage CD

In the height of the 2004 Carnival season Sanch has released "The Panorama Soundstage". It is well timed. The current debate in steelband circles is about the merits, wisdom even, of selecting Panorama finalists through competitions by band size - small, medium and large. "The Panorama Soundstage" indirectly addresses the controversy by presenting a mix of band sizes playing 2003 Panorama and earlier tunes.

"The Panorama Soundstage" 2 CD set shows examples of steel orchestras working to produce a soundstage (the apparent physical size of a musical presentation) that is aesthetically pleasing and engaging, while simultaneously allowing the listener to discriminate among various members of each family of instruments. In just over two hours you can hear thirteen different orchestras led by Exodus playing their winning 2003 Panorama rendition Pandora.
[eCaroh/Ron - January 2004]