Calypso

Rain Melody

Composer and Singer

Barnet Henry (Preacher).

Arranger

Leon "Smooth" Edwards

Recording Date

Feb 23/24 2001, 8.00 p.m. to 3.00 a.m.

Recording Engineer

Simeon L. Sandiford

Orchestra

Neal and Massy Trinidad All Stars

Venue

Panyard, Duke Street, Port of Spain, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Players

28 tenors, 6 double tenors, 14 double seconds, 10 triple guitars, 10 quads, 6 tenor basses, 15 six basses, 1 nine bass, 13 rhythm

Real time

Musical status

0.00

Prelude to a Thunderstorm

0.13

Count and panyard ambience

0.17

Introduction in B major

0.30

Rain motif. Repeat at 0.32, 0.34, 0.36

0.44

Thunder-clap

0.45

First water motif (baroque).  Drum solo. 16 heartbeats of anxiety

0.55

Crescendo

1.06

Verse

1.31

Chorus. Rain motif at 1.35, 1.39, 1.59

2.10

Variation on verse

2.44

Middle pans solo

3.07

Rain. Repeated at 3.08, 3.09, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14

3.17

Reggae licks on snare drum. Repeated at 3.21, 3.25

3.27

Stretching of rain motif; Rain coming...coming...coming.Scratchers and Iron in unison with melody. Repeated at 3.31, 3.35

3.41

Decrescendo. Time to shelter

3.48

Rain. Rain motif at 3.51 and 3.55

3.57

Jam

4.21

Modulation. Water rising to flood levels

4.32

Rain motif

4.43

Change key to C sharp major

4.55

Second water motif (baroque). Bystander's electronic watch alarms

5:03

Call and response (frontline and bass). Ecstasy of playing in rain

5.27

Re-harmonization of melody

5.50

Decrescendo. Time to shelter

5.53

Third water motif (baroque)

6.13

Crescendo

6.19

Bass solo on verse

6.45

Ripples. Rain motif on basses at 6.47, 6.51, 6.55, 6:59, 7.03,7.07, 7.11

7.15

Unison passage to simulate trumpet fanfare. Remember Alla Hornpipe from Water Music Suite

7.17

Call and response (frontline and middle pans)

7.25

Weather forecast. Rain motif at 7.28

7.34

Turbulence. Changing weather pattern.  Thunderstorm imminent

7.50

Call and response (frontline and middle pans)

7.56

Change key to E Flat Major. Jam. Bass plays verse, frontline plays chorus. Rain motif at 7.58, 8.00,8.02, 8.04, 8.06, 8.08, 8.10, 8.12

8.12

Thunderstorm. Frontline creating water. Bass playing verse. Cymbals answering bass to simulate four strikes of lightning at 8.20, 8.28, 8.36,8.44. Rain motif on middle pans at 8.16, 8.20, 8.24, 8.28, 8.32, 8.36, 8.40, 8.44 Remember Pastorale Symphony 4^th movement

8.43

Ecstasy of playing in rain again

8.46

Jam. - Raindrops. Rain motif at 8.49, 8.53, 8.57, 9.01

9.02

Modulation. Rain motif on middle pans at 9.05, 9.09, 9.13, 9.17. Rain motif at 9.19, 9.21, 9.23, 9.27, 9.29, 9.31, 9.33

9.35

Prelude to a hailstorm (tenor sticks reversed). Rain motif on middle pans at 9.38, 9.42, 9.46

9.48

Drum solo. Anxiety as time ticks away awaiting hailstorm. Band inadvertently runs out of sync with rhythm

9.52

Hailstorm.  Rain motif on middle pans at 9.54, 9.58, 10.02, 10.06

10.08

Calm after hailstorm.  Rain motif at 10.08, 10.10, 10.12, 10.14. Remember Pastoral Symphony 5^th Movement. 

10.23

Decrescendo and finale