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Tracklist:
Eritage
Pein’ E Plezi
Son
Premie Vouwayage
Desyem Vouwayage
Twasyem Vouwayage
Originally released in 1979, “Spiritual Sound” lives up to its name, a soaring, triumphant album, six tracks of spirit magic from Guadeloupe.
Telluric, intense, terribly alive, the gwoka drums of Guadeloupe carry the identity of a painful and fervent island. Marked forever by the crime of slavery, Guadeloupe’s créolité cherishes the ka drums and their natural environment: the low-pitched boula drum with male goatskin, the high-pitched soloist makè drum with female goatskin, the chacha, ti bwa, triangle, calabash and other percussion instruments that surround them, and the voices – the fiery, proud, timbred, urgent voices of the gwoka.
This album is also a legend for its voices: in his then dazzling youth, singer Lukuber Séjor was one of the first gwoka artists to largely feminize the chorus of répondè, who converse with his text delivered in a straight and powerful voice.
And everything here sets new standards. In 1979, Mizik Filamonik – Spiritual Sound proclaimed a spiritual patriotism of ferocious intensity. The album by Lukuber Séjor – whose spelling alone is a battle – sets out to give Guadeloupe the intangible weapons of self-respect and self-knowledge, through a singular practice of traditional music.
180-gram black vinyl record that includes liner notes in Creole, French, and English.
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