Here is a bit of interesting news for your reading pleasure. The National Public Radio from the United State has posted their top 100 favorite songs for 2013. In that listing are two songs done by artists from Trinidad and Tobago. Both Machel Montano and Bunji Garlin's songs are listed. If you visit the NPR site you will see the songs listed alphabetically.
It is interesting to note that Machel Montano's song entitled "The Fog" was criticized as 'trash' in many circles and especially on islandmix.com Soca threads. It goes to show that Machel and his crew did something right! The other song listed on the chart is Ian "Bunji Garlin" Alvarez's Differentology. This song is creating a stir all over North America and Europe. Congratulations are extended to these very talented artists - it goes to show that hard work and perseverance pays off in the end.
Official NPR Music's 100 Favorite Songs Of 2013 article below:
"What do you have to do, as a song, to win our hearts? You have to sink in. You have to stop someone dead in her tracks. You need to cause that man to act a fool. Scrunch a nose, tense a shoulder, drop an ass.
We compile our 100 Favorite Songs much like we do the work on our 50 Favorite Albums list, but the job done by a three-minute slow jam — or, say, a bracing piece for solo flute — is not the same as two sides of an LP or even a tightly curated collection of stories. A song's function, when we hear it apart from its siblings (which is almost always, given shuffle, mixes, all the streaming services, DJs and commercials), is to snatch you, drag you around for a few moments and then get out. So when we considered what songs mattered to us this year, we asked which ones achieve the most in the brief space our technology has allotted them. Which ones take an idea and express it fully. Which notice a sore spot in our recent history and twist the knife just so. Which are stamped with memories or reliably turn the temperature up or put a smile on our face every single time.
These are the songs that stood out. Quick hits of bliss, frustration, triumph, regret, you name it. All in together now."
I copied the notes for both songs on favorite 100 songs - "Differentology" and "The Fog" from the NPR Radio web page for your perusal... all rights reserved to National Public Radio!
Bunji Garlin, "Differentology"
Yes, this Carnival breakdown celebrates going to "24 parties in a row," but its complex construction and electronic elements prove that Garlin is serious about taking Soca forward.
Machel Montano, "The Fog"
Listen to this Trinidadian jam every morning while brushing your teeth, and we guarantee your hips will be looser in 40 days.
via www.nprradio.org
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