New Calypso! A modernization of a too familiar groove and “melanin vibe” that Freetown Collective’s Muhammad Muwakil muses over on this electric Saturday Brunch episode, basking in the after-glow of a successful 2020 Carnival season. The group’s debut Carnival EP entitled ‘YAGO’, released on the ‘other’ side of the soca threshold (a brazen Ash Wednesday morning), pushes the musical artform into the beauty of a honeyed Caribbean vibration. From the euphoric dusk and dawn praise song of ‘Feel the Love’ to the smile-inducing sweetness of ‘Big Man Ting’, all the way down to the sure-footed invocations in ‘We Bad’, Muwakil points towards a glorious imagination for Trinbago music, for the love of its own people and surely then the rest of the world.

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