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! 

Various - Where the Palm Trees Shake at Night (2011)

 

01 - intro - andre tanker - our music

02 - wganda kenya - el evangelio (calypso)

03 - les vikings de la guadeloupe - do do l' enfant do

04 - tabou combo - alle lave

05 - barel coppet - vini vini missie

06 - daniel forestal - les coupeurs de canne

07 - duke - freedom in africa

08 - st. maarten's the rolling tones - it's a feeling

09 - ti celeste - misye dowle a yo la

10 - les vikings guadeloupe - ti tong ti tong

11 - la perfecta - toutt moune boule

12 - les rapaces - mpuli man muni

13 - henri salvador - j'aime tes genoux

14 - les difficiles de petion-ville - tue lamp

15 - dolor et ses etoiles - bourrique la

16 - super combo - cozando y bailando (merengue)

17 - les aiglons - ce rat la

18 - wganda kenya – yoro

This compilation, which I made some time ago, is mainly about the sounds from the islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti. The release of „Tumbélé! Biguine, afro & latin sounds from the French Caribbean, 1963-74“ in 2009 on Soundway Records opened up a totally new musical world to me. Before that I basically didn't know about the beautiful and manifold sounds of the French Caribbean. So after listening many times to the mighty „Tumbele“ album - compiled by no one else then Hugo Mendez, I wanted more of these oh so sweet sounds. So I started listening to any album from the Caribbean, from Martinique, Haiti, Guadeloupe I could find. I must have listened to a hundred something albums. Most of the albums and compilations I listened to didn't come anywhere close to the music shared on the „Tumbele“ compilation. But I found a few songs which have the right mixture of sweet grooves, deep funkiness, tropical sunshine and rhythms to make my grandma dance. Listen yourself!

Peace; DubMe