Mr Wilfred Peters
"KING OF BRUKDONG MUSIC"
Passes away at the age of 79
Caye Records are deeply saddened to announce the passing of a Belizean national icon, and one of the country's best loved musician on
June 9, 2010 in Belize.
Sir Wilfred Peters
1931-2010Photo by: Patrick Barrow
KING OF BRUKDONG MUSIC
Brammin’ with Sir Peters
No One Di Care for Me
---Bilal Morris 2008
Sir Wilfred Peters, Belize’s renowned Brukdong music grio, traveled five thousand miles from Belize to Backatown studio in Los Angeles to work with music producer Patrick Barrow on the next Brukdong hit. Are you ready to Bram! Well here he goes again. The third album by the Boom & Chime innovator, Mr. Peters makes its debut out of the Los Angeles based Caye Records label again. This one is called, Sir Peters,"No One Di Care for Me", and makes the statement that the sound is an exceptional Boom and Chime style Brukdong music.
Produced through the creative spirit of Caye’s Patrick Barrow, who just a few years ago took the Brukdong beat and flipped it around into a danceable and pulsating beat that Belizeans at home and abroad are jamming to. Peters would say: “Dat da the sound a mi di look fa”, and blazed his accordion at the L.A. venues wherever he would perform a bram session. The dancehalls at Belizean parties would be packed whenever the Boom and Chime beat is spin by the selector.
As the Caye label run the tracks on, No One Di Care for Me, the eleven song Brukdong album is energized with bottom-driven bass lines, thumping drumbeats, scratching guitars, grinding ‘grayta’, marimba, banjo, funny Creole stories, and Peters’s whaling and melodic accordion. Barrow says this style of Brukdong is identified with his upbringing as a youth in the early ‘50’s and early ‘60’s where he spent his summer school vacations in the forest of Mountain Pine Ridge at a sawmill his father, Patrick Barrow Sr. worked as a sawyer and managed. The mill was associated with the Mahogany Camps. After a hard days work, he remembers the men jamming Brukdong in what was called a Bram Session. His grandfather, Cornelius Barrow and father also worked the mahogany camps, and an uncle Howard Barrow was a popular Brukdong musician who played with the legendary Peters at Christmas in those days.
The founder and former rhythm guitar player with the reggae band Babylon Warriors since 1978 and Caye Records record producer since 1986. Barrow also was able to work with music producer Michael Hyde and Jr Crawford in 1989 to record and release Andy Palacio’s first major hit singles, Watu, Ereba and Punta Medley. Barrow later returned to his roots dedicating the rest of his musical career to the production of Brukdong as an authentic Belizean art form.
The ‘dis da Belize Music’ motto and trademark which Barrow and company have pressed into their unique blend of Brukdong music is beginning to present a fresh approach to a danceable rhythm. Before the sound lacked the bump and grind that made Brukdong a dance beat.
Sir Wilfred Peters on lead vocals and accordion, --- Get Ready to Juk an Fall Bak ena brukdong style ---.
Mr Peters
Boom & Chime
