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    Viking's Choice: Calypso Help, Glacial Ambient, Youth Crew Hardcore

    It's not too late for music resolutions, right? Lord Invader kicks off this year's calypso habit, plus hear new music from Richard Skelton, Initiate and the Chicago Underground Quartet.
    by Lars Gotrich Feb 11, 2020 2 minutes
    "Lord Invader will never surrender / Me one alone," the calypso singer boasts on 1960's <em>Calypso Travels</em>.

    It's not too late to make a musical resolution for 2020, right?

    No, I'm not planning to spend any diaper money on rare 7-inches, or develop an unhealthy effects pedal habit. But I do need to get outside my musical comfort zone — and I want to get into calypso music.

    Calypso's swaying, Afro-Caribbean rhythms could very well soundtrack a rum-soaked night, but, a record produced in New York in 1960 by Moses Asch, and which just received a vinyl reissue via Smithsonian Folkways.

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