Bunji Garlin released “A Few Of Us” on Saturday, October 10, 2026, his first move of the Carnival 2027 cycle. The Viking’s opener is a warm-up by design, a party record built to set the tone early rather than shake the season on its own.
Date honesty first, because this desk runs on it: this record is not breaking today. It landed earlier in October, and iimiTV is filing it now as what it is, the opening chapter of Bunji Garlin’s Carnival 2027 run and one of the first marker records of the soca season. Seasons are won in February, but they are started in October, and they are usually started by the artists everyone else is watching.
Bunji Garlin “A Few Of Us”: The Credits
The song was written by Bunji Garlin and produced, recorded and mixed by N.M.G. Music, which the official audio credits also list on mastering. Live bass and guitars come from Kyle Peters, and background vocals come from Shanice Preston. The artwork, credited to Logo Boss, puts Bunji in silhouette over a flag-waving fete crowd, which is exactly the room the record is aimed at.
It is a lean team for a season opener, and that fits the intent. “A Few Of Us” is built around party energy: it calls out stagnant, dead vibes, pushes back against stiff and boring atmospheres, and uses “curtains” as a metaphor for motion. The instruction running through the song is participation, jump, wave, scream and keep the momentum alive. Bunji has built a career on activating crowds, and this record is that skill in its purest form, no concept to decode, just a room being told to move.
Framed Honestly: A Warm-Up, Not An Impact Song
The source coverage of this record deserves credit for saying plainly what the record is, and this post will frame it the same way. Sokah2Soca, which featured the song on its October 10 release, wrote the assessment this desk agrees with:
“This is not an ‘impact song,’ not the type to shake the season on its own, but it’s a strong introduction to Carnival 2027 and a clear indication that Bunji is warming up for something bigger.”
The same review calls it “a solid warm-up” and “the opening chapter of what’s to come,” and notes that when Bunji starts moving, the rest of the season usually follows. That is the correct weight to put on an October single from a soca major. It will find favour with his fans, it gives DJs a fresh Bunji record for the early fetes, and it puts the Viking’s name on the season’s board before most of the field has released anything.
Why The Warm-Up Matters In October
Carnival 2027 records are already stacking up, and the early weeks of a soca season have their own economy. The first records out get the longest run in the fetes, the most DJ spins while playlists are still being built, and the clearest read on what the season’s tempo will be. A warm-up from Bunji Garlin is also a signal to every other camp: the standard-setter is in the gym, and the season’s serious business is coming.
The record is already circulating the way season openers are supposed to. Caribbean E-Magazine’s chart watch this month listed “A Few Of Us” among its soca new-release watches and named Bunji among the artists driving a Carnival 2027 release cycle that is, in its words, accelerating, with fresh material from Nailah Blackman, Nadia Batson, Preedy and Patrice Roberts landing in the same early window. DJ mixes for the 2027 season have picked the record up as well. That is the honest scale of the moment: not a takeover, a presence, exactly what a warm-up is for.
Toronto hears these records early, too. The city’s Caribbean diaspora runs fetes straight through the winter, and the new soca that will soundtrack the road in Trinidad gets road-tested in Toronto rooms months ahead. “A Few Of Us” is built for exactly those rooms, a record about refusing to let a fete go flat, which is close to a mission statement for how this city parties.
Bunji Garlin released “A Few Of Us” on October 10, 2026, produced by N.M.G. Music. It is the Viking setting the tone early, and iimiTV’s Caribbean Music desk will follow his Carnival 2027 run from here.
