Mr. Peters CS904 "Brukdown reloaded"
Mr Peters
"Neck And Back"
CS905
Sir Peters
"No One Di Care For Me"
C908
"Brukdown reloaded" 2004
Brukdong Has Found the Sound 
DIS DA KRIOL MUSIC
---By Bilal MorrisAn 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, Brukdown 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 !! Brammin’ with Sir Peters 2008
No One Di Care for Me
---Bilal Morris
Sir Wilfred Peters, Belize’s renowned Brukdong music grio, traveled five thousand miles from Belize to Bac-A-Town 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 ---.
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Mr Peters @ Bakatown Studios, Los Angeles
Mr Peters
Boom & Chime
