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A SPECIAL BREW
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A SPECIAL BREW is the long awaited follow on to the best selling CD, Pan Sweet Pan.Special Brew is a Ray Holman composition which he also arranged for this recording by Carib Tokyo.

After listening to this CD on three different types of speakers - from desktop to mid range to high end, I renamed it: "Pan - A Higher Level". It is apropos that in the first Sanch release of the 21st century we get a clear consistent exposition of Steelband orchestral music, using indigenous compositions, at a non-frenetic pace.

This is a brew that one will savor at every sip and every new sip provides more pleasure. Indeed it is more like a seven course gourmet musical meal prepared by the esteemed arrangers. To partake of all the courses one needs seventy-three minutes but if you have time for only one serving any plateful will satisfy you.

Ron Lammy
ECaroh Caribbean Emporium
Boston, MA
April 2001