Despers USA practices on a big parking lot off Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y. Band members start wandering in around 6 or 7 p.m. and slowly take their places behind racks of steel drums. Like a ...
Thundering. Clangoring. The air around me throbs and shatters with the sound of steel pans. I'm in Queen's Park Savannah, a big patch of green in the heart of Port of Spain, capital of the island ...
Let the Music Talk looks at steel pan drums, a sound that is synonymous with Caribbean carnival music. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast on 24 June 1981. 1981: The carnival sound of steel pan drums.