Various - Sweet Grooves & Sounds from the Antilles (2012)

01 - andre tanker and the mansa musa drummers - back home

02 - dolor et ses etoiles - bourrique la

03 - les rapaces - music passe partout

04 - guadafrica combo - moin ce roi roi

05 - eddy gustave - gazoline

06 - les leopards - incertitude

07 - les 8 trefles - tap tap

08 - les leopards - si ou dit ca ce ca

09 - ibo combo - rat la (coupe cloue)

10 - les leopards - playa de san luiz

11 - ry-co jazz - tu bois beaucoup (edit)

12 - les kings - oriza (abtomic edit)

13 - ti celeste - la guadeloupe mwen rive

14 - les loups noirs - pile ou face

15 - les aiglons - ail couyonner

16 - les docteurs du rythme - ce pas fot moin

17 - les shleu shleu - timidite

18 - eric cosaque - guadaloupe ile de mes amours

It's been a while since I updated my blog. Time just passed along, while life captivated me with all its facets. But today is a royal blue sunshine day - perfect to share a fresh compilation of music from the Caribbean - mainly music from the French Antilles: Compas. Cadence. Cadence Rampa. Biguine. Meringue. Mini-Jazz. Compas Direct. Gwo-Ka. All music which is part of the rich musical & cultural heritage of the Caribbean – and which I am still trying to „understand“ and get an ear for. Since I shared some of my favourite songs and sounds from the Antilles on the Where the Palm Trees shake at Night compilation here a few months ago, I have been busy listening to every record from the Caribbean – which wasn't Reggae or Calypso – and which was recorded somewhere between the early 60ies to mid-80ies – and here is Sweet Grooves & Sounds from the Antilles – a selection of songs that move & groove my soul. Enjoy!

DubMe

PS: Thanks to Duendiness for introducing me to „Guadaloupe Ile De Mes Amours“ (song #18). A tune recorded in 1978 by the gwo-ka master, Erick Cosaque, a percussionist and singer. Traditional gwo-ka mixed with a soul funk feeling and some deep, spiritual & beautiful saxophone playing...

And a big THANKS to Abtomic from Greece for contributing his beautiful edit of Les Kings – Oriza (song #12) to this compilation. Truely a nice edit of one of my favourite songs from the mighty Tumbele compilation on Soundway Records. Keeping the original flavour and laidbackness but adding a sweet bouncing beat... Summer is around the Corner. Be sure to check him out on soundcloud, some of his mixes full of grooves, beatz & sunshine on mixcloud or his weekly Green Room Show @ ParanoiseWebRadio (every Wednesday at 16:00-18:00 (GMT+02:00) live from Athens). Surely a lot of good music coming out of Greece lately. You can steal their money, but you can't take away their culture, their spirit, their soul... The wake up is globally approaching critical mass and starting to erupt in mainstream society. The walls are coming down. Babylon falling. Globally. Here in Japan – "Rage against Radiation": Frying Dutchman - humanERROR... Thank You!