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Soundway records presents overlooked and forgotten music from the Islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Lilting biguines meet heavy gwo ka drums and créole soul collides with the rhythms of the carnival.
Guadeloupe and Martinique are part of the Lesser Antilles, the eastern Caribbean island chain that also includes Dominica, St. Lucia and Marie-Galante. They are departments of France (Départements outre-mer) and are governed from Paris to this day. This album focuses on the rich musical period of the ‘60s and early ‘70s on both islands, a time when Haitian compas, Congolese rumba and Cuban guaguanco combined with the local biguine style to create the sound of tumbélé, a uniquely French Antillean style that is partly a product of the colonial past of the Islands, in their position in the multi-cultural, multi-lingual “sixth continent” of the Caribbean.
The music on this album represents the shaping of a distinct musical identity— an identity that would give birth to zouk music in the late ‘70s—which conquered much of the Caribbean and Africa in the ‘80s. It contributed to the creation of a distinct créole identity, which has been shaped by France, Francophone Africa, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Cuba, but most importantly the musicians of Guadeloupe and Martinique and the rhythms of the biguine, the bélé and the gwo-ka.
Guadeloupe and Martinique are part of the Lesser Antilles, the eastern Caribbean island chain that also includes Dominica, St. Lucia and Marie-Galante. They are departments of France (Départements outre-mer) and are governed from Paris to this day. This album focuses on the rich musical period of the ‘60s and early ‘70s on both islands, a time when Haitian compas, Congolese rumba and Cuban guaguanco combined with the local biguine style to create the sound of tumbélé, a uniquely French Antillean style that is partly a product of the colonial past of the Islands, in their position in the multi-cultural, multi-lingual “sixth continent” of the Caribbean.
The music on this album represents the shaping of a distinct musical identity— an identity that would give birth to zouk music in the late ‘70s—which conquered much of the Caribbean and Africa in the ‘80s. It contributed to the creation of a distinct créole identity, which has been shaped by France, Francophone Africa, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Cuba, but most importantly the musicians of Guadeloupe and Martinique and the rhythms of the biguine, the bélé and the gwo-ka.
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