‘Dat Is Lie’

Arddin Herbert

This track, Dat Is Lie, continues the fairly recent tradition by Woodbrook-based Invaders Steel Orchestra in Trinidad, of performing the composition of their arranger, Arddin Herbert, as the band’s tune of choice for the annual steelband music panorama competition in Trinidad & Tobago.

Vocalized by Roland “Rembunction” Yearwood, the song is composed by a trio which includes Yearwood, Herbert and Ricardo Jones. This is the fourth consecutive year this threesome has collaborated to produce the song which takes Invaders to “The Big Yard” aka the Panorama stage at the Queen’s Park Savannah.

Starting out in 2010 with Tell Dem, the guys got together again in 2011 for Doh Be On Dat, continued for 2012 on Yuh Know Ah Like It and are back for 2013 with Dat Is Lie.

Ricardo Jones