A quickie update from St Barts, where I’m attending the St Barth Film Festival, including an interview with Guadeloupean filmmaker Janluk Stanislas. Thanks to Le Square Restaurant at Le Carré d’Or in Gustavia for the Wi-Fi hookup.

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A mini-cast recorded at Gate D24 at Dulles Airport in Washington DC. More talk than usual, mainly about upcoming podcasts, upcoming travels and Delphine; and less music than usual.

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Links:
Delphine’s blog | St Barth Film Festival | Peter Doig Studio Film Club show at the Museum Ludwig Koln, Germany | Roosevelt in Trinidad by Atilla @ Amazon.com

Your friendly CFR host is featured again today on one of our favourite podcasts, Bicyclemark’s Audiocommuniqué. I’m answering a Q&A and sounding a bit like I’d partaken of the holy herb (which I assure you I had not). Do I always sound like that? No wonder people have been describing CFR lately as “relaxing”.

Foreign language buffs will also want to check out Bicyclemark’s April 14th podcast, which he does in Portuguese. So what if you don’t understand a word? It’s just cool to hear somebody speak another language, and he plays some great music too.

Another episode of CFR coming soon . . .

Listen to your host being interviewed–and talking a mile a minute, as usual–on the very cool Small World Podcast, whose host, Bazooka Joe, kindly invited me to be a guest on his show. We talked via Skype, so my part of the audio is a bit muffled, which I hope will help obscure some of the wrong information I give on various subjects.

In Part Two of our interview, Roger, Stanton and Wendell remember the group’s fourth member, the late, great John Isaacs; and I attempt to get Delphine a guest gig on their 2006 album–plus much, much more!

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3Canal’s web site | 3canal CDs on Amazon.com | short article on 3Canal from Caribbean Beat | Some recent 3Canal photos

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On our tenth ‘cast CFR visits again with Roger Roberts, Stanton Kewley and Wendell Manwarren of 3canal and plays some of the group’s more “off the beaten path” tunes. This is Part One of a two-part interview.

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3Canal’s web site | 3canal CDs on Amazon.com

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Listen to Delphine sing.

Woke up this morning feeling there was a podcast in me waiting to be let out: this is it. A bit of a runt, I’m afraid, but with the usual talk and music, including my own two cents’ on the value of this thing we do.

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The Internet Archive | Balún at The Internet Archive | Richard Morse & Ram | Ram’s Puritan Vodou @ Amazon.com | 12 - the band

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A mini-podcast this one, because let’s face it, the sound quality of the music on the last podcast was beyond appalling. So, to be fair to Chi Chi Peralta and The John Michael Hersey Band, here are their tracks again, served on a bed of the usual ramblings from your host.

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Links:
Bicyclemark’s Audiocommuniqué - great podcast by a young Portuguese-American living the life in Amsterdam, and the one who occasioned this entire podcast
Caribbeancricket.com & The West Indies Cricket Blog - your sources for the good, the bad & the ugly re: West Indies cricket
Official site of the West Indies Cricket Board
Cricinfo - South Africa in the West Indies 2004-2005
Amor Narcótico by Chi Chi Peralta & Son Familia - free download @ Amazon.com
The John Michael Hersey Band Official Home Page

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Just listened to the latest entry from Barry A Dobyn’s Nothing To Declare, one of the podcasts I listen to. In this one Barry raises the provocative topic of how podcasters seems to have fallen into a sort of mutual admiration tailspin, and one of the examples he cites is the fact that CFR was mentioned on both Adam Curry’s and Dave Slusher’s podcasts (he forgot to mention Dawn & Drew, whose link has netted me scores of hits as well). His post also links to both CFR and 3canal, which I find kind of nice and ironic and very post-modern. But what Barry said got me a-thinking about all sorts of things, and I was compelled to post this comment, which you should probably come back and read after you’ve listened to his podcast:

Hi Barry:

Catching up on my podcast-listening for the week so only now getting around to listening to your latest. Thanks for the mention and for running the promo–unfortunately I didn’t hear it before doing my last show, in which I thanked a couple of people for recent mentions.

You’re absolutely right about the tail-chasing that’s going on in the podcasting community. This seems to me to be such an ingrained feature of the media in general (ie podcasting, broadcast media, print media etc), however, that one wonders how it could ever be fixed. The majority of consumers seem content to be told what they should listen to/watch/read by the dominant forces, rather than go looking for potentially interesting new and mind-expanding products. I guess that in the podcasting context, being championed by people like Adam Curry, Dawn & Drew and Dave Slusher might be considered the equivalent of having your film picked up by Warner Bros, your book published by Time/Warner etc. (without the money part, of course).

Coming from country that’s a pinprick (okay, two pinpricks) on the world map, however, what I find interesting in my particular case is the fact that a podcast which would normally be considered a niche product or at least not mainstream, has been able to receive the kind of attention it has (which, let it be said, is still not Daily Source Code-level). This, one has to admit, is not something that would have ever been possible in any of the traditional media, for all sorts of reasons: but, thanks to podcasting, here I am, and here is 3canal, Sheldon Blackman, Asheba, Beethova Obas and a host of other relatively unknown Caribbean artists.

So yes, we podcasters have in a sense settled into a mutual admiration society of sorts, but at least we have *the option* of also admiring things not made in our own image. Whether we choose to exercise that option is, as you say, completely up to us.

Thanks again for your always provocative commentary. For somebody with “Nothing To Declare” you certainly have a lot to say.

Best wishes,
GEORGIA
Caribbean Free Radio
“original audio from the antilles”
(almost live from Trinidad & Tobago)

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This one features potentially boring (to non-West Indians and non-cricket fans) but actually quite fascinating ramblings on West Indies cricket (including a true confession about my own relationship with the game), news about a couple of calypso-related happenings, our first merengue track and other goodies. Please pardon the technical glitches: I’ve acquired some new toys and was testing them out by producing this one on the fly–promise I’ll get better at this soon.

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Links:
The new toys:

Haiti by David Rudder & Charlie’s Roots @ Amazon.com (the album featuring “Rally ‘Round the West Indies”)
Short piece on Rally Round the West Indies from Caribbean Beat’s “Endless Vibrations: 250 top songs from the Caribbean”
Caribbeancricket.com & The West Indies Cricket Blog - your sources for the good, the bad & the ugly re: West Indies cricket
Official site of the West Indies Cricket Board
Cricinfo - South Africa in the West Indies 2004-2005
Calypso Music in Postwar America: Photographs & Illustrations 1945-1060 - exhibition at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida
Amor Narcótico by Chi Chi Peralta & Son Familia - free download @ Amazon.com
Trinidad Express article on Calypso at Dirty Jim’s
The Chair & Automan - James Slusher’s podcast
The John Michael Hersey Band Official Home Page