Some thing which was brought to my attention when I served as a judge in the Barbados Music Awards nominee selection process recently is the volume and quality of the music videos that are being produced by our Barbadian acts.

I was totally blown away by the special effects, abstract concepts and high production quality in videos by “Kite” “Masala” along with Philip Scantlebury among others. What puzzles me is that we have a government owned television station that boasts they are “we tv” and we never see these outstanding local productions. Instead we are treated to old videos by Atlantic Star, Peabo Bryson and Engleburke Humperdink (I can’t even spell his freaking name) who don’t give a rats ass on whether they show on we tv or not.

Other local videos like Peter Ram, Biggie Irie, Ayana John and the video we feature here, David Kirton come to mind for being top quality productions. Ronnie Morris mentioned at the meeting that credit goes to the executive producers for financing these videos and that is true, but credit also goes to the technical people for their shooting and editing of these creative productions.

I am involved in video production and I know it is not easy.

Fortunately we have “we blog” Boyce Voice so we can highlight we videos as we have been doing, so lets do it then, this is David Kirton and he says its “Time for a Change”. I agree with him 100%.

Have you heard the new tracks on Alison Hinds debut solo cd as yet?Well I have!

I was given album preview edition by her manager Van Gibbs and was able to get a listen which I will blog briefly on.
The Album is entitled “Soca Queen” and is definitely a must have for your CD collection when it comes out in November.
It is a mixture of old and new tracks and features Alison in diverse musical rhythms which will be sure to titillate you.
With out giving too much away I will tell you that one of the tracks on the album is the world famous “Faluma”
For your entertainment we now flash back in time and present Alison performing with Square One the same “Faluma”
Click and “get ready to wine”… and watch out for Alison’s new album coming soon..

We featured this song before, now it’s the music video to the song, local reggae artiste David Kirton with “Green Camouflage”. This reminds me up to this weekend I read in the newspaper of a guy charged in the law courts for wearing camouflage clothing, it is deemed to illegal here in Barbados.

I think that is so unfair then, some years ago some people committed crimes wearing camouflage, so authorities banned it. Of course that did not stop crime from spiraling on an upward trend since then, but the colour remains banned!
As you should know camouflage is my favorite colour and I know they are others out there who like it badd too.
Camouflage lovers it is time we take a stand! This Saturday lets us don every piece of Camouflage clothing we can find and march through our capital Bridgetown singing David Kirton’s “Green Camouflage” song.
Of course I probably will not be there and if you get arrested and your ass thrown in jail, don’t call my name!
But I will stand in solidarity with you in camouflage spirit!
In the mean time let us check out David’s video in preparation for Saturday entitled “Green Camouflage”

Warning! This video contains Graphic Camouflage footage, Call the Police!

It is Sunday and you should be in church, and since you are not there Boyce Voice will bring church to you…
Well church in an educational and enlightening way, this is a clip that was forwarded to me by Cultural specialist Elombe Mottley. So in our continuous effort to expand and edify your horizons we now present it to you…

Here a Trinidadian Minister Wintley Phipps gives us some insights into the origins of Negro spirituals.
It’s pretty intriguing and well presented, click and check it out…

Here is a flashback to Euphoria 2007, and when we say a flashback we mean a flashback…
Check this quick clip of Spin Pooch Ink in full “wuck up flight” performing their song “New Key”, watch for the movements of “fatman” for a big man he sure can move…
Click now for 30 seconds of Spin Pooch Wukking Up….

After watching this video I have a strong desire to go back back to Africa! This is 2 Face Idibia with his African Queen song.

The women in this production are not only beautiful but also are presented in regal feminine splendor in keeping with the theme of the song. Click to check out 2 Face with African Queen…

Here’s one of my favorite people, I call her Alison Hinds, she calls me P.Boyce. There’s us at the Barbados Music Awards this year. Alison and I go back to the days when Square One started out and performed with Madd at those small community events in St Philip, Barbados back in the 80’s. Now Alison has outlived Square one and wears the title of “Soca Diva of the Caribbean”.

One of the things about Alison is she is such a cool person; she has not let fame and being the “ultimate soca diva” go to her head. She is also multi-talented. Alison sings, dances and also did a guest appearance in our “Best of Barbados Gone Madd” comedy show last year, I will try and get Darron to post that footage for you. Check her out with Carolann above in a scene from the comedy sketch “woman power”.

Here is Alison’s music video, how come we don’t see these quality videos on our CBC TV? It features Machel doing a guest appearance click to see “Roll It Gal”.

Wow, this is one impressive video! Jumbie by Machel Montano. The choreography is impressive the cinematography is super! It’s a real Caribbean “thriller”.It shows why Machel is celebrating over 25 years in the business and still going strong. I was a fan of Machel from the time he did “Too Young To Soca” back in 1982 when he was 8. In his impressive career he performed all over the world and has done collaborations with Alison Hinds, Beanieman, Burning Flames, G Unit, Mr Vegas and more.

Click to see Machel’s collaboration with the living dead zombie aka in the Caribbean as “Duppy” aka “Jumbie”

The Ultimate Party

This is footage of the band Krosfyah performing at the ultimate party for Crop Over 2007 Euphoria. I have been a Krosfyah fan for ages, from the time they were a little “Crossfire” and spelt their names right. Under the management of famed entertainment manager Phil Philips, Crossfire rose to international status with the release of the mega album Pump me up back in 1995 featuring Nicholas Brancker productions and Edwin Yearwood compositions.

Crossfire then became Krosfyah which is different but the same thing and is now managed by Michael Agard and features Edwin, Khiomal and Tony Rebel etc with Ingrid working behind the scenes.

Here is krosfyah when they performed at Euphoria 2k7….. reboot your computer, its going to be hot!

* Did I mention Edwin and Khiomal are in Bacchanal Time and you can look for them in the 2007 dvd coming soon? well, I just did

I took Big Bwoy’s advice and checked out this Vintage Square One Footage which brings back memories for me for several reasons:

1) The Cyndi Rouse intro; I like Cyndi so badd then, back in the 90’s I did a weekly “Rue Rue Hour’ radio show with Cyndi that was enormously popular, it is beautiful to see her again.

2) Alison Hinds; I like Alison real badd too, I want to write more on Alison but I am saving it for a separate post, but she was a multitalented versatile artiste from the start and this video demonstrates it.

3) Square One; Well I can’t say I like Square One as badd as they are men in the band, but as a Band they were excellent. Not only musically talented but they were also easy to get along with off stage. We (Madd) did quite a bit of touring with them years ago. Click to see our “Soca Ambassadors” Square One featuring Alison performing “Don’t Want to Lose you Now”