There was no ma­jor strat­e­gy for what un­folds in the world of so­ca on this day, Box­ing Day. The on­ly goal had been to help the peo­ple. T&T, the home of the Car­ni­val fes­ti­val the world an­tic­i­pates an­nu­al­ly, is un­der duress. Halt­ed by a pan­dem­ic that has all but crip­pled the en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try, Car­ni­val 2022’s true sta­tus is still un­known, but in true Trin­bag­on­ian style, a ma­jor play­er in the world of so­ca says the re­bel­lion will not be sti­fled.

Shur­wayne Win­ches­ter to­day de­liv­ers a prop­er feter’s an­them. His song, Look Trou­ble Again, or LTA as it is re­ferred to, has been scream­ing for free­dom.

“This track was set for re­lease on three sep­a­rate oc­ca­sions and each time, it was held back,” he ex­plained, say­ing that the song is a re­bel­lious state­ment that ex­press­es, in its truest way, the essence of T&T’s peo­ple.

Shur­wayne says the song had been sit­ting there since the coun­try’s ini­tial lock­down, wait­ing for the per­fect time for re­lease. To­geth­er with US Vir­gin Is­lands-based mu­sic pro­duc­er Kevre “Mae­stro” Hen­dricks, the idea for the sin­gle, was bred from a de­sire to help the peo­ple who had been stuck in a rut, yearn­ing to de-stress, amid a pan­dem­ic the likes of which no one in the world over had ever ex­pe­ri­enced.

“Mu­sic has al­ways been a tool to help peo­ple de-stress. Hu­man be­ings were not meant to be stuck in­doors and in­ac­tive as much as we’ve been dur­ing this time. Look­ing on as the world came to a grind­ing stop, I felt that we had to be ready forth at mo­ment the op­por­tu­ni­ty pre­sent­ed it­self, to give peo­ple that tool that could ul­ti­mate­ly help them when they need­ed it most,” he said.

To­day, a song that Shur­wayne says took him in­to the soul of vet­er­an en­ter­tain­er Black Stal­in (Leroy Cal­liste) is un­leashed.

“The spir­it of his de­liv­ery flows through­out this par­tic­u­lar re­lease. There’s a free­dom in who we are as a peo­ple and like Stal­in did time and time again with his mu­sic, I saw the as­sign­ment here, and I know the peo­ple will feel it when they hear it.”

Again, much like the mu­sic de­liv­ered by the Black Stal­in—a true icon that Shur­wayne says he cel­e­brates and is grate­ful for—this new song is built from the ground up with live in­stru­ments.

“The brass, the horn line scream free­dom. When you lis­ten to it, you ac­tu­al­ly feel like, ‘oh yes! The gates are now open!’” said Shur­wayne.

With T&T’s bor­ders now open and beach lovers grant­ed lim­it­ed ac­cess fol­low­ing a lift­ed state of emer­gency, Shur­wayne is op­ti­mistic. He how­ev­er main­tains that even as an en­ter­tain­er he must still be a re­spon­si­ble cit­i­zen.

Look Trou­ble Again is re­spect­ful­ly re­bel­lious since the track’s lyrics do not de­fy present-day mea­sures aimed at keep­ing the pop­u­la­tion safe.

“There’s some­thing about Box­ing Day. There’s an en­er­gy that calls for the big so­ca sound and the strong fes­ti­val en­er­gy. That’s some­thing no Trin­bag­on­ian should be de­nied and as an artist I have a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to give my peo­ple the mu­sic to re­spect­ful­ly ex­press them­selves,” said the two-time Road March cham­pi­on.

Look Trou­ble Again is avail­able on all pop­u­lar stream­ing plat­forms, in­clud­ing Ap­ple Mu­sic, for pur­chase and down­load.