Kali (Jean-Marc Mournerville) lives in the hills of Martinique and espouses a philosophy that parallels Rastafarianism. He is one of the most popular roots artists…
Artist Profiles: Kali
Tag: Martinique music
Artist Profiles: Malavoi
Malavoi was at the foundation of Martinique’s music for over thirty years. In their early years, the sound of the group was much different than…
An Era of Afro Latin Sounds from Guadeloupe and Martinique
Various Artists – Disques Debs International, An Island Story: Biguine, Afro Latin & Musique Antillaise 1960-1972, Volume 1 (Strut Records, 2018) Strut Records, a world…
Distant Drumming Traditions Brought Together
Various Artists – Tambours Croisés Chapter 2 (Buda Musique, 2016) The Tambours Croisés project celebrates the drumming traditions of France’s overseas territories. For this second…
The Bèlè Dance of the Caribbean
Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon are today globally revered writers. They were reared in societies of the French islands of the Caribbean that are not…
Zouk: Rhythm of the Lesser Antilles
They are two small islands of that Caribbean Sea, reminiscent of lost paradises. Dreams of rum, white sand beaches and transparent waters, of available bodies…