Narrie Approo, masquerader extraordinaire & Black Indian in the pantheon of traditional Carnival characters, expounds on his 'mastery.
Here's the 1st snippet from interviews I filmed with traditional Carnival characters about 25 years ago.
The sound recordist was the late great Austin Wilson, a veteran masman in his own right. Austin was my long-term collaborator, starting with our filming of the living pioneers of the steelpan in 1992. This suite of Carnival podcasts is dedicated to him, one of my greatest teachers - yAo Ramesar