Fantastic collaboration! Such a bright, vibrant performance by all involved.

It comes from the soul directly! big inspiration and vibes!

Nice depth! Looking forward to the release!

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Led by charismatic singer Gardner Lalanne, Les Loups Noirs (The Black Wolves) were extremely popular in the '70s, touring extensively and recording across the Caribbean and in New York and Paris. "Pile Ou Face" (heads or tails) is an uncharacteristically experimental instrumental that layers saxophones and swirling organ over a rolling compas beat - a great demonstration of the way that the timbales and percussion sections of the big bands were being replaced by stripped-back cowbell and kick drum at the beginning of the ‘70s.
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Les Loups Noirs - "Pile Ou Face" [from Haiti Direct]

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Râ Râ De Léogane - Gadé Moune Yo (dj Khalab rework)

LOKOLAKE Ramata Diakite

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Star Band de Dakar - Cherie Coco

Taken from AFRO-HAITIAN EXPERIMENTAL ORCHESTRA - S/T
Release date: 24.06.2016
Glitterbeat Records
www.glitterbeat.com

Seven-and-a-half thousand kilometres of cold ocean separate West Africa from Haiti. But music can cover that distance in a heartbeat, crossing the Atlantic to reunite the rhythms and religion of people torn from their homes to be sold into slavery on the Caribbean island. And on its self-titled album, the Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra honours those ghosts of the past even as it walks steadfastly and hopefully into the future.

Experimental by name, the band was definitely experimental by nature. The concept started with Corinne Micaelli, the director of the French Institute in Haiti. She wanted to bring drummer Tony Allen, the power behind Afrobeat and one of modern music’s towering figures, to the island. A performance with Haitian musicians at a major public concert would be perfect. Allen agreed, and Erol Josué, a singer, dancer, voodoo priest, and director of the Haitian National Bureau of Ethnology, helped to recruit local percussionists and singers. They decided, in order for different strands of Haitian music to be represented, that the musicians would be drawn from a cross-section of the country’s foremost bands, including Racine Mapou de Azor, RAM, Erol's own band, the Yizra'El Band and Lakou Mizik, the group of Sanba Zao, one of Haiti's leading percussionists and traditional singers.

Together, the musicians had just five days to compose and rehearse the set they’d play in the main square of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and broadcast live throughout the country.

What emerged from those long, hot sessions were a series of tracks with roots on both sides of the Atlantic, compelling layers of subtle polyrhythms that bridge centuries and cultures. Relentless grooves become the foundation for soaring, utterly modern melodies like the swirling, electronica-fuelled “Salilento” or the Afro Vocoder ritual sound of “Yanvalou” that’s inspired as much by Krautrock and Sun Ra as Lagos or Port-au-Prince. Flying on inspiration and adrenaline, 
it’s roots music for a global future.

Afro-Haitian Experimental Or..

Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra - Bade Zile

Baaba Maal - Koni (Featuring Ernest Ranglin)

2017 will see the release of Omar's long awaited 8th studio album, “Love In Beats”. Arguably his most eclectic and varied album to date, this will firmly cement Omar's enviable reputation as a truly unique and gifted artist.
Recorded mostly in Omar's own Backayard Studios in South London with his brother (Grammy award winning The Scratch Professer), “Love In Beats” is a career defining album that beautifully demonstrates Omar's unique voice, along with his skills as a multi-instrumentalist and producer.
More eclectic than previous albums, “Love In Beats” incorporates Soul, Caribbean rhythms, an undercurrent of Funk, touches of Zouk, a Jazzy Waltz and spoken word. It also features collaborations with U.S. Soul legend Leon Ware, Robert Glasper (Blue Note), U.S. rapper Ty, Guadeloupean singer Jean-Michele Rotin, U.K. soulstress Natasha Watts, The Floacist and the Cape Verdean born, Paris based singer Mayra Andrade
“This is album is labour of love between myself and my brother… Powerful songs over mesmerising beats in the evolution - that is Omarmusic and Brothers sound, it is truly “Love in Beats” Omar Lyefook, MBE

Stevie Wonder, Angie Stone, Syreeta Wright, Common, Estelle, Incognito Bluey Maunick,
Erykah Badu, Carleen Anderson, Caron Wheeler, Leon Ware, India Arie, Lamont Dozier, Zed Bias,
Pino Palladino, Roger Sanchez, Guru & Jazzmatazz, Maddslinky, Kele le Roc, Mario Biondi... All share one thing in common; they are all collaborators, fans and admirers of Omar, a British Soul Music pioneer.

Love In Beats

Omar - Déjà vu featuring Mayra Andrade

Akalé Wubé songs available for streaming

Kokob / Metche Dershe (Live in Paris)

Made in Dakar

Orchestra Baobab - "Pape Ndiaye"

haiti-congo connection. les shleu shleu du haiti's melting version of Franco et OK Jazz song, one of my fav tunes. killer!

les shleu shleu du haiti "cafe"

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Glitterbeat is committed to global sounds and artists that don’t necessarily rubber-stamp our pre-conceptions of what regional music sounds like.  We live in a world of ever increasing intersections and the global musical conversation does not operate according to straight, predictable, and easily delineated rules. It is a conversation that is being reinvented and revolutionized each day.

Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra - Bade Zile

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