“Sometimes you dream about a world where pan
takes on a whole new meaning”
I thought I would do a different album
(Passion for Pan) by having not only a vocal
version of the songs, but also a pan version. “Another Time, Another Place” was quite an
inspirational song, where the music and lyrics
flowed so easily. What was I seeing was a lack
of vision for the instrument and the pan
community, fragmenting and suppressing the
spirit and desire to have recognition. I was seeing all the people (locally and from all over
the world) who come together to learn the music
and perform at Panorama, only to go their
separate ways afterwards. Tuners were doing
their trade all over the Caribbean and beyond,
Andy Narell was arranging for Skiffle Bunch, and
the thought crossed my mind that the instrument
and music had the possibility of uniting us. If
only...
I left a message for David Rudder to sing the
song, leaving a copy, as it had a similar feel
to his style, and if he could not, to still get
his comments. I was surprised when he called me
and went through some of the lines of the tune,
and was quite supportive, for which I am
thankful. I ended up singing the song, with
Natasha Joseph (from Panazz) performing the
background pan lines. Playing the pan version,
was Lalchan Ken Samaroo, the brother of Jit
Samaroo with beautiful solo arrangements. The
song was recorded by Jason Dasent’s studio in
Woodbrook, with sound engineer Ian John, who
worked many hours on the Passion for Pan album
with me.
In years to come, the song would be arranged by
Dr. Jit Samaroo for the Samaroo Jets, and scored
by the members of the band for the Pan in
Education CD.
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Lyrics:
Verse Everytime
ah hear dis sweet pan sound
Ah doh
know why meh pores does raise, and meh heart does pound
Yet we
sometimes take it, take it all for granted, ah cyar understand
Why ah
feel we now start with dis instrument... in dis blessed
land
VERSE
How one
hundred people could get on side by side
Before we
might be walking down deh street, without saying “Hi”
Truly the
power of pan is more than, more than making music, mamayo
Just like
we forge the steel, it have a way to go... it could unite we
souls
CHORUS
So take
meh to another time, yes another place
Where we
truly treat de pan with de utmost grace
where we
give thanks for giving birth to de power of pan
where dis
unique gift is celebrated by all man
VERSE
De tuner
ha to pound away at a hundred pan
He say he
going up de islands for a Carnival
Is then ah
realize dis ting ha de power for Caribbean integration
But after
fifty years we could only find... fragmentation
CHORUS
So take
meh to another place and another time
where pan
players doh ha to scrunt for a dollar and dime
And there
is respect for de panman, by all de business community
And all de
potential becomes reality
VERSE
So where
would we be in the next century
Ah hope we
ha de will to learn from our history
And is
there a new vision for de pan dat will stand de test of time
Well all
ah ask is for some new direction... show us all a sign
VERSE
Well ‘99
Panorama use a foreign arranger
Is time we
look to the international arena
Can de
Ministry, TIDCO and Pan Trinbago work together towards dat light
That would
make the power of pan burn so bright, yeh so bright...
we can
make it right
CHORUS
So take
meh to another time, yes another place
Where de
instrument could only cast a smile across our face
And we
realize there’s no boundary for dis instrument
So we can
only open our hearts, to what is (heaven sent)
(Repeat)
