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Krioyo is Izaline’s third album, an alternately haunting
and joyful cocktail of Curacaoan and Afro-Caribbean melodies
and rhythms.
Most of the lyrics are sung in Papiamento, a fusion of Spanish
and Dutch. Backing her are a quintet of talented Curacaoan
musicians, including bassist Eric Calmes and pianist Randal
Corsen. Izaline has all the qualities of a world music star
in the making…possessing not only great physical beauty
but an astounding, flexible voice that sounds like no other.
She interprets traditional and modern material with heart-felt
emotion, loving care and jazzy acumen. Krioyo is a rich
tapestry which moves from evocative Afro-classical danzas,
zouk, soukouss, jazz balladry and Afro-Peruvian touches
to interpretations of such Curacaoan musical styles as tambu,
tumba and muzik di zumbi.
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If we asked which world-beat
dance music had the best odds of breaking through to the
mass consciousness there would be no hesitation in citing
the wonderful music of the French Caribbean. We have
often railed at the non-availability of zouk, kompa, cadence
and biguine in Australia. In the not too distant future
we will be updating articles about this neglected area of
tropical music, so keep your mouse ready.
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Released
for the first time, Alan Lomax's legendary 1962 recordings
of the rich and many-stranded musical traditions of the lesser
Antilles and Eastern Caribbean: work songs, pass-play story
songs, calypso, East Indian chaupai, and steel band music,
reflecting the Central and African, French, English, Celtic,
Spanish and East Indian facets of Caribbean culture. |
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The
latest selection of classic calypso music to cross my desk
The Legends Of Calypso (ARC Music Intl) veers away
from the carnival tents and presents many of the enduringly
popular hit songs through the 40s and 50s from Trinidad,
the Bahamas and beyond... |
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It beggars belief that Martinique,
A Caribbean isle covering barely the area of the Sydney
metropolitan area should have such a broad range of music,
from the modern sounds of zouk, the 70s and 80s cadance
style, the jazzy biguine whose development parallels New
Orleans jazz (possibly even preceding it) to percussion/vocal/dance
troupes who maintain an unshakable bond with Africa. |
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IN MEMORIAM
Edith Lefel
(1964-2003) one of the foremost zouk singers died of a heart
attack at 39 years of age. She was one of the first stars
during zouk's hey-day in the late 80's. Equally at home
with jazz, ragga,funk,samba and such Antillean styles as
biguine, cadence and mazurka, she also performed with such
heavyweights as Kassav and Malavoi.
In fact although her records are hard to come by in Australia,
I would like to point out her beautiful singing on La
Siren, the opening song to the Matebis project
by Malavoi, a CD which was miraculously available
in these culturally deprived climes. Apart from that album
and her presence as a backing vocalist on the hard-hitting
Zouk Obsession by Pier Rosier's Gazoline
you've got Buckley's of finding her elsewhere.
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