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By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:42:04 +0000

Kenyatta,

Those are great links! Thanks for the info.

By the way, I didn’t mean to classify Emeline Michel or the other artists as zouk.

In fact, the idea of the post was to present some alternatives to zouk that share some of its positive characteristics, while departing from the sugary pop sound that zouk-haters complain about.

Ian

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Zouk! « Internationalbombast — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:17:39 +0000

[...] @ Ben Loxo, Matt recently had a guest post about Zouk, a genre worth defending. The english wikipedia zouk article is meh (but the french article is fun) [...]

By: kenyatta

kenyatta — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:14:04 +0000

Nice post, though i must disagree with your acessment of zouk. Like another poster mentioned, zouk is just pop music, but it is very diverse (hard zouk has been making a comeback after years of being supplanted by zouk love).. And there are many younger artists fusing traditional bele, gwo ka as well as other rhythms with the musical form. Check out Valerie louri, Loriane Zacharie, Soft and Dominik Coco. Dede St. Prix is a veteran from the pre zouk era that has been working with many younger artists to keep the roos alive. I wish another caribbean pop form, soca was as rich and creative.

BTW, I have both the Stbart and Michel CDs. However, I wouldn’t group Emeline’s music as zouk.
Best

http://valerielouri.com/

http://dailymotion.alice.it/video/x5347f_valrie-loury-yich-madinina-belya-pr_music

http://dailymotion.alice.it/video/x5bv20_misik-s-travail-nou-ransay-senin-ka_music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2jw3n_boogie-flaha-omadinina_music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6z2ue_azewo-groovndiz-kontribann_music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpPaZaN8rk

By: jean-luc

jean-luc — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:02:17 +0000

[ "...It’s not something you can drop on the turntable at a dinner party or bump in your car on the highway. It’s not hip to like zouk; the stuff is musical junk food. ..." ]

Yes, but I can do. If you feel zouklov’, it works.
I love the sphere from that sound if it has no R’n'B inside.
The point is gwoka is folklore or maybe you talk about jazz kreyol – zouk is popmusic.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:32:45 +0000

I went to see Jacques Schwarz-Bart at SOBs in Manhattan last night. His show was cool, but the real revelation was the second act, Francois Ladrezeau and Alka Omeka. Pure gwoka–just percussion and vocals. Amazing.
(Though the MC introduced Ladrezeau as coming “straight from the streets,” he actually played for a while with free-jazz saxophonist David Murray and the Gwo-Ka Masters. You can check him out on YouTube or iTunes.)

If you live around NYC and want to hear other roots Kreyol music, there will be another big show at SOBs on Dec. 7.

By: nouchema

nouchema — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:18:32 +0000

thanks a lot for the song “Jacques Schwarz-Bart – Pé La feat. Admiral T”
great voice because strange.

cordialy
nouchema

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:30:08 +0000

Thanks for the post, Ian. Nothing but heat-seekers. Bwa Bandé and Jacques Schwarz-Bart have found a permanent place in my playlists.