The second single from the compilation is out now, Abdul Malik de Coteau - More Weight 🎵#fypシ

Kaiso Power: Sound Revolution In Trinidad The second single from the compilation is out now, Abdul Malik de Coteau - More Weight 🎵 It was already bubbling in the late 1960s - workers and unions taking to the streets to demand fair wages and better conditions from multi-national corporations that less than a decade after independence, continued to maximise their profits. By the early 70s, the protests that rocked the city of Port of Spain had spilled into towns and villages across the country. This seismic shift in political and social consciousness was just about unionists. It was the cultural workers who played an integral role in bringing the revolutionary message to the people in ways that were steeped in their language and the rhythms that were themselves born out of a struggle to be seen and heard. Those thriving underground spaces that had existed since before Emancipation were given a new kind of energy by dancers and storytellers and poets all interested in challenging prevailing ideas of Blackness in a newly independent nation. Vinyl LP + full Digital album out May 29th! Listen and pre-order via the Soundway Records link in our bio 🔗 #calypso #trinidad #compilation #70s #soundwayrecords