the national singer Canis Major aka Jojoman released his new single made with the renowned Jamaican artist and producer Esco da Shocker which is named “Witchcraft”.
The national singer explained that the song is about the world of witchcraft and how love relationships occur., because he maintained that “It has happened to all men that at some point they have blown our minds and bewitched us”.
“'Witchcraft’ It is a song with a letter 100% real that talks about 'magic’ as such, the one that those women have that sometimes make us lose our minds. In the world of the Caribbean and Central America there is a lot of talk about moorings, that woman who does a job, “that woman who tied you up”, he raised Canis Major a Reggae Chalice.
The artist added about the song that “This starts a bit by mixing that magical plane with the physical., lo tangible, lo intangible, to make a very interesting letter in which you basically ask what you did, how am I like this. That's what witchcraft speaks, It is a lyric with a multicultural theme and is very well developed both in my verse and in Esco's verse., it is very interesting”.
The collaboration with Esco da Shocker
Shocker Esco, whose real name is Matthew Thompson, He is a renowned Jamaican producer, acclaimed dj, radio personality and music promoter, son of pioneering disc jockey Errol “AND” Thompson and stepson of the queen of reggae Marcia Griffiths.
He has also worked with top stars such as Bounty Killer, Vybz Kartel, Elephant Man, Beenie Man, Busy Signal, Devin in Dakta, among others.
Regarding how this collaboration with the Jamaican singer came about, Canis Major said he met him in 2018 when they recorded the song “WUYB” (Whine Up You Body) and then they continued working.
“'WUYB’ It was quite well received both here in Chile and abroad.. As a result of that production, Esco continued to include me in some projects., many of those that are yet to come out, collaborations with other artists on the island and We always talked that after that song we had to do another one again.. That's how I put together the 'Witchcraft' proposal’ with the Canis Recordz label, with the help of Goodmvn and Matías Malinarich”, explained the interpreter “Mamacita”.
Canis Recordz
This production was made by Canis Recordz who has several songs to his credit, according to the national singer, the first of them “Do It”, of the year 2020, a song that until now is widely danced and sung in their live shows and that is being played in Chile and abroad.
“Regarding the work of Canis Recordz, For me it has been pure joy, pure surprise, a lot of gratitude, because even before I considered the possibility of transforming my compositions into a label as such, the songs under that chemistry, Under that equation that we made with Goodmvn and with Matías Malinarich they were gaining more and more strength”, commented Canis Major.
After “Do It” I arrive “Wine Pon Time”, a great success in collaboration with Latonya Styles, that went viral.
“that song, ‘Wine pon Time’, It was a phenomenon on social networks, where we receive feedback from very distant places in the world like Asia, Europe, the arab world, everywhere, on the Caribbean islands, it was crazy. Following the success we had with Canis Recordz, we made the other versions of the riddim in which figures such as 1Brandon, he is a tremendous dj, selecta, and that today is touring Asia; Suspense, who is a rising artist; Digital Sham; in addition to the tremendous national exponents, that for us it is as important to work with them as foreign artists”, projection.
Finally, about the seal, The national singer stated that he is working as a producer, composer and with other artists on the label.
“I'm working on some stuff for other artists on the label., I am working as a producer, as a lyricist, some very interesting things for new artists. We recently made a major release which is a reversal of ‘Action’, a Terror Fabulous classic with Nadine Sutherland, that we did it with Lady Stephy and that we are still working on enhancing it, because it is a very nice version, with which we are paying tribute to what shaped us today as artists, which is the music of Jamaica”, he concluded.