An in-the-pocket production of Mr. Peter’s Brukdong sound has been spun out of Patrick Barrow’s Caye Records Recording Studio that will have a devastating effect on how Brukdong Music (Belize Music) is to be produced for the dance floor and the international market of music lovers.
It has improvised a pulsating bottom of bass drum and syncopating bass lines within the whaling accordion playing of Mr. Peter’s original songs. Never has the Boom & Chime sound been reproduced in this way that it will easily cross-over to a younger generation of Belizeans and internationalists who in the past could not feel the pulse of the rhythm because former productions lacked bottom (drum and bass).
Apart from its appealing pump and grind sound, the producers have done what was hoped would be done to the Brukdown sound that everyone else has ignored for too long: play and record the elements of its sound within the proper medium of production both analog and digital. This has allowed them to capture the drum and bass sound, like all other African rhythms like Punta and Reggae, must have for it to be sweet to the dancing feet. Brukdong is dance music and it is from black people. It must be recorded and mixed with the feeling of that people in mind.
Caye Record’s production has realized that and has made a great effort in using the best in the recording technology and musicianship to send a message that Brukdong is coming with Peters in the helm.
Within the recording features, Caye has also taken into consideration the use of traditional Creole instruments like the so-called ‘greta and the acoustic guitar alongside the accordion. They have not just throw them in there without no sense of the touch it should give the music, but with the guidance of the master himself, Mr. Peters.
Most moving in the sound is the way Patrick have used the bass drum within the right timing and with the right tone. The sound of this hits, babbles the walls, bounce on the ear lobes and pump energy into the songs.With this, Peters can now play with a powerful and melodic sound behind him and whip up adrenaline in the veins of the world’s young people.
Historically, Mr. Peters and his Boom & Chime sound has been struggling to find a place in and outside of Belize both on the dance floor and in live performances. Though some of the results have been positive, Brukdong still had lacked the appeal to cross-over to special types of audiences. Whenever played live by the ‘King’ himself, one can feel the beauty of the music but hunger for more within its delivery. With Caye’s production, it is certain that they have triggered off the sound within the music that we were all craving for.
Mr. Peters new CD “Brukdong Reloaded” Dis da Kriol Music, was recorded in Los Angeles 2004 at Bakatown Studio.
Players of instruments: Raymond Barrow (Bass Guitar) Lesmond Sosa (Lead Guitar)Nelson fuller (percussion) Patrick Barrow (percussion, drums, keyboards, rhythm guitar) from the group Babylon Warriors, other guest artists Marlon CHORDZ Barrow (Keyboard), Bella Carib and Martha Weatherborne (vocal) and Glen Bood (trumpet)
Go Deh !!
" Brukdown reloaded 2004 "
Brukdong Has Found the Sound
DIS DA KRIOL MUSIC
---By Bilal MorrisMr Peters
Boom & Chime
