A newly released track collaboration by Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin and Skinny Fabulous is powered by music produced by local Music Producer Krishna “Dada” Lawrence.
Krishna Lawrence operates out of the Dominica Cotton Groove Studio and has long advocated for the advancement of Bouyon music while expanding and improving the standards of the genre. Lawrence has made a name for himself producing Bouyon riddims for various Caribbean artistes.
Another collaborative effort which involved popular Bouyon artiste, Asa Bantan, was also released recently.
Well don bro keep it up.
In my opinion that Riddim can best be described as a Bouyon Soca fusion and other similar riddims have been previously produced by Trini, St Lucian, St Martin and other non-Dominican producers.
The Riddim also has some Jab Jab elements which have been regularly blended with soca since the first Jab Jab soca hit was recorded by Penguin in the late 1970’s. Nice fusion track that unifies elements from a number of the Caribbean Islands and please note that Soca has always been fusion music ever since its inception in the early 1970’s in a similar manner to Bouyon.
Good job by Dada, I rate him as one of the best and most versatile young producers out of DA at present.
I heard the track and I was very impressed
I think “Bouyon-Soca” could be just as popular as “Dancehall -Soca” or even more popular
We just need to have some “colabs” between the internationally renowned soca stars and our own home-grown Bouyon stars.
This would definitely be a way of getting our music out there and putting Dominica back on the world stage like we used to be back in the glory days of Exile-1 and Grammacks
Bouyon music/our music can go far.
And with people like Mr. Lawrence doing what he’s doing, we should be, hopefully, to take “Bouyon to the World”
They steal our soca, now our bouyon. So they put us man. Sot nous sot man.
I’m a Machel fan, but I’m disappointed man. Dominicans be smart! This pure Bouyon, being marketed as soca. How do we protect our music?
What are we protecting it from? Other people embracing it?
Clearly our beats are appealing, but these major artists are talking about about jumping up with “famalay”, while bouyon these days is clearly about beff and maypwe(and that’s the censored ďescription) . No competition there. If up to now our artists can’t understand that concept, I say let the Dominican producers make their mark and represent. We locally trying to impress a 70 thousand population while they understand the concept of change influencing millions in the Caribbean and world.
Big up to Dada and the others out there
You make some good points. While I really enjoy the new bouyon, the riddims are nice but the songs themselves are not marketable. Asa Bantan is doing his thing but the others are going to have a hard time crossing over. Triple K fell big-time because they turned themselves into a ‘chant’ band and their recorded music sounds forced and all over the place…nothing like WCK and Serenade.
I don’t mind the beff and maypwee bouyon but like you said, that stuff isn’t leaving Dominica. Even St. Lucian soca has a bigger reach, and they’re pretty much newcomers to the scene.
Typical Dominican we share the same point of view. This opportunities should be used to leverage not conform them the world. Not even a teaser just straight. A for effort my brother but the delivery needs some more massaging. Best of luck next time around.
Congratulations Dada!
If Bob Marley sang Jazz, the Jazz genre would not become Reggae.
Great job on getting the Bouyon out there Dada.
Heard this for the 1st time last night and instantly felt the bouton vibes.