Sean Nero

The clouds burst with ho­n­oured guests last Sat­ur­day when new mas band Fan­ta­sy Car­ni­val un­veiled its maid­en pre­sen­ta­tion for Car­ni­val 2012 ti­tled Book of An­gels, held at 02 Park, Ch­aguara­mas. The event was sim­ply di­vine. Beau­ty lift­ed from the pages of the band's look-book and took on hu­man form in a run­way show­case that was steamy, caused by mod­els who were un­ques­tion­ably sexy, who in turn en­ticed pa­trons in an at­mos­phere that was pure fun. Park­ing along the West­ern Main Road, Ch­aguara­mas, was at a pre­mi­um as the par­ty mob con­verged at the lo­cat­ed to wit­ness the rev­e­la­tion.

First class pre­sen­ta­tion

It was just around half past the mid­night hour when the Book of An­gels opened and the beau­ty and splen­dour con­tained with­in gripped an ea­ger­ly-await­ing pub­lic. Pa­trons an­gled them­selves for the best pos­si­ble view, while some me­dia pho­tog­ra­phers had to re-po­si­tion them­selves in hope of im­prov­ing their van­tage points. Cheru­bim, An­gels, Pow­ers, Thrones, Rulers, Prin­ci­pal­i­ties, Virtues, Do­min­ions, Au­thor­i­ties, Seraphim, Arch An­gels and Ophan­im were the 12 sec­tions on of­fer. Sure­ly, there could not have been any com­plaints about the ex­cel­lent group­ing of fe­male mod­els of var­ied eth­nic­i­ties with great tor­sos and wicked curves. With their in­nate ap­petite for mer­ry­mak­ing they added to the ter­rif­ic vibes.

De­sign­ers flour­ish

It's the third time in four years that de­sign­ers of mas Richard Dookhdeen and An­tho­ny Hall have lent their cre­ative mag­ic to new band with won­drous re­sults. The de­pic­tion of the mas from the Book of An­gels stayed true to the theme and com­mand­ed the adu­la­tion and ad­mi­ra­tion of at­ten­dees. The Richard and An­tho­ny Pro­duc­tion seal was re­spon­si­ble for the por­tray­al The Spice Route from mas band Spice three Car­ni­vals ago.

YU­MA (Young Up­ward­ly Mo­bile Adults) en­tered the Car­ni­val realm in 2011 with a por­tray­al ti­tled Zodeak which the de­sign­ing men con­cep­tu­alised. The band was over­sub­scribed and was caused to pass its 2,500 ceil­ing of mas­quer­aders. In their lat­est con­tri­bu­tion to works of mas they have imag­ined a world where an­gels and mor­tals co-ex­ists. Again, the re­sponse to their ge­nius had fun-lovers wish­ing they could fast for­ward the cal­en­dar to Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion (NC­BA) Pa­rade of Bands.

A pro­duc­tion coup

There is no doubt that the world pre­mier of Fan­ta­sy Car­ni­val and its 2012 por­tray­al of Book of An­gels wowed. But in ret­ro­spect, no one should ex­press sur­prise that the pro­duc­tion blue­print was to per­fec­tion and the event was an over­sub­scribed en­ter­tain­ment tri­umph. While the name Fan­ta­sy Car­ni­val may be new to the ear, the team be­hind the band had a some­what flaw­less his­to­ry with re­spect to event man­age­ment. There was Fan­ta­sy J'Ou­vert. Pho­tos from this year's Car­ni­val showed reign­ing In­ter­na­tion­al Pow­er (So­ca) Monarch and Road March Monarch Machel Mon­tano hav­ing a fun time with this bunch. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the out­fit boast of crowd favoured con­cept par­ties in Car­ni­val and dur­ing the post fes­ti­val sea­son.

The at­mos­phere

Even with the free drinks con­cept to toast the birth of this new band, no one could claim to not have been ap­proached by "an­gels" of­fer­ing tequi­la shots. Yes. Beau­ties flut­tered through­out the venue in their cos­tumes urg­ing pa­trons to share in more drink and con­se­quent­ly, lift the cel­e­bra­tions. The mob that gath­ered at 02 Park has been par­ty­ing to­geth­er with such fre­quen­cy that it had to be gath­er­ing of friends.

The fore­word in Fan­ta­sy Car­ni­val's high-qual­i­ty and su­perbly con­cep­tu­alised look-book spoke about an en­gage­ment of an­gels and mor­tals for cen­turies, which many be­lieved was the first fan­ta­sy known to the liv­ing.

An­gels, it was said, had long fan­ta­sised about the al­lur­ing beau­ty of mankind and mor­tals have been eter­nal­ly en­thralled with their di­vin­i­ty. This in­sa­tiable at­trac­tion formed the mu­tu­al ba­sis for an­gels to walk among or­di­nary men. Prin­ci­pals of Fan­ta­sy Car­ni­val were re­port­ed fas­ci­nat­ed by this sto­ry of pow­er, love, ad­mi­ra­tion and mag­nif­i­cence that has tran­scend­ed time. The band's ob­jec­tive was sim­ple: to em­body the rich­ness of ser­vice and ex­cel­lence that was known in the Car­ni­val ex­pe­ri­ence.