If you are into percussion and authentic Caribbean Reggae Soca music; you will like ‘Chris Garcia’ ‘chutney Bacchanal’; however, if you want to take a musical look into some of the arch realities that confront the less achieved in the Caribbean by extension, you will be absolutely fascinated by the message in the music. Never before has one song addressed issues such as Soca music, head on as is done by ‘chutney Bacchanal’. Taking an analytical look at this song will magnify the points made by Chris Garcia and highlight his relation to today’s reality. People in the Caribbean do adapt to issues that comes along with Soca music as part of their culture.
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I had a very small understanding of Soca music and so I started to research and with much perseverance; I can say I have acquired a lot of knowledge of Soca music. Chris Garcia gave an explanation of his song by giving his commitment to and belief in a higher power. Be it in the face of the trials and tribulations faced daily, as he believes that he (the Father) knows and understands all things.
Chris Garcia broke on to the local music scene with his 1996 instant classic “Chutney Bacchanal. It was written by Chris Garcia and composed by him. Chris Garcia, stated, “In all of my music I try to deal with the idea of the human condition, and our place in the universe; I touched on it in Chutney Bacchanal when I said “this is what it sounds like to me; Chadey burcuh chundey burgayjaydey burgungee.” The ‘it’ refers to where we fit in the grand design of whatever higher power is out
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The song is about a woman from India who wanted to hear a verse of the song in Hindi language. The ladies in the video were dressed like Indians and wore ornaments on their faces, hair, hands and feet. The lead vocalist starts off by dancing without shirt and later down in the video he was dressed in full black with glitters on his shirt and he had long hair and a piercing in one of his ear lobes. The colors of the females’ garments were pink and green, yellow and black, gold and blue. The music sounded like that of calypso tune.
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4. www.wiki.chutney_music.com A woman come down from India
Tell me she love up the soca
Want to sing aH verse in Hindi
So she grab hold of my guitar
Then start to deliver
And this is what it sound like to me
This is what it sound like
Jamming on me whole night
This is what it sounds like to mee.
This verse is basically giving us an idea about the a woman who came from India who told Chris Garcia how much she loved soca and wanted him to sing his chutney song in
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