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This is the Steel Pan section of Rainlore's World of Music, covering all types of steel pan music and anything relating to this.
In order to secure its future as an ongoing project, and indeed resume regular activity such as new reviews, Rainlore's World of Music urgently needs to raise substantial funds through some kind of sponsorship or similar. (Please also see The Future of Rainlore's World of Music on the About page, and the News entry for 2008/11/09 on the Home page.)
It has regrettably become impossible to keep Rainlore's World of Music going on a purely spare-time basis. The amount of work involved is simply too overwhelming. At the rate that for example CDs kept arriving for review and gigs were covered during 2004, there was enough work to keep two people busy on a full-time basis!
Of course, I wish to preserve the non-commercial and not for profit nature of Rainlore's World of Music, but without some kind of sponsorship the site simply cannot continue in any meaningful active way. Despite not having had any updates for about four years until its re-launch in October 2008, Rainlore's World of Music remains a popular site. The reviews and artists' profiles have always achieved excellent visibility in search results, and have also been referenced widely. There are also many new features I would like to add to Rainlore's World of Music, such as a Gig calendar to replace the old one
and a Features section that should have been added during 2004 already, plus more.
Sadly, without some form of sponsorship none of this will be possible and the site will at some point soon become purely archival.
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News
2010/03/07
The 2008/09 version of this page has now been archived.
I may now be able (from about a week's time or so) to accept a limited number of new submissions for album reviews. While I welcome pan submissions from anywhere, due to limited time and resources at the moment I am likely to give priority to submissions from T&T pansides/pannists and those from the UK. Please check the Review form, accessible from the Contact page, in about 7-10 days' time.
Finally, it has come to our attention that there appear to be a few minor problems with our web forms, specifically with radio buttons and check boxes, with some browsers. This is continuing to be checked out, but as everything seems to work just fine in Internet Explorer, it seems likely that the problem lies with the other browsers in that they may not have fully implemented this aspect of forms. In which case there appears little that can be done about it other than to suggest you temporarily switch to Internet Explorer in order to use our forms, if you are affected. Flash based forms might be another option longer term.
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2010/02/15
Quick bit of news from Saturday's National Panorama Finals in TnT. Top ten positions in the Large Bands:
1st - Silver Stars (Battle Zone, arr. Edwin Pouchet) (291 pts)
2nd - Phase II Pan Groove (Pan Army, arr. Len "Boogsie" Sharpe) (284 pts)
3rd - Trinidad All Stars (Large is Large, arr. Leon "Smooth" Edwards) (282 pts)
4th - Invaders (Tell Dem, arr. Arddin Herbert) (274 pts)
4th - Renegades (Battle Zone, arr. Kenneth Guppy Brown) (274 pts)
6th - Skiffle Bunch (Pan on Fire, arr. Keith Salcedo) (271 pts)
7th - Harmonites (Smooth Sailing, arr. Yohan Popplewell) (268 pts)
7th - Desperadoes (Musical Magnum, arr. Robert Greenidge) (268 pts)
9th - Redemption Sound Setters (Pan on Fire, arr. Winston Gordon) (264 pts)
10th - Fonclaire (Rewind, arr. Ken "Professor" Philmore) (260 pts)
Personally, I'm gutted. But then, no two people are ever going to agree on Panorama results. Quite heartening though to see Valley Harps and Merrytones doing quite well in the Medium and Small Bands respectively, scoring 5th and 3rd place.
Also, I'm hoping to open up the submissions form for albums shortly, at least, initially, for pan albums only.
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Reviews
Reviews are one of the major features of this site. Generally, reviews feature CD albums, but they will by no means be limited to CD releases. Previews and live performances, and even the odd demo, will also be covered as and when opportunities present themselves. Also, reviews are not necessarily of the latest releases
only, rather, I aim to generally cover the best of what's around and that will often include reviews of older releases. Also, there is an index listing all CD reviews available on Rainlore's World of Music, which includes reviews of music from other genres, for example Jewish music, world music, classical, in fact just about anything, and
another one listing all live music
reviews.
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