CARIBANA
A label which seems to have been dedicated to West Indian
music. Caribana was linked to Burning Sounds records (q.v.).
Catalogue numbers suggest that it issued a handful of 12" singles and at least
a couple of LPs in the late '70s and early '80s. Tapir's Reggae site
reports that it also put out a couple of 7" singles, both of them by Lord Tokyo,
the 1969 Calypso King from Dominica. They were 'Crazy Love (CM-01) and
'Rhumba' (CM-02), and they both came out in 1978. An album, 'Lord Tokyo
Sings To The Nightengale - Calypso Harmonies' (CM-1001), was recorded
during a visit which Lord Tokyo paid to these shores; presumably the singles may
have been taken from it, or from the same sessions. Google offers no
independent confirmation of the existence of the either single, so if anyone out
there has a scan of one or the other of them I would be pleased to see
it. Thanks to Sam Mauger for bringing the label to my attention.
Copyright 2014 Robert Lyons.