Milktree - 13 March 2012 08:14 AM

caribbeanboy1 - 10 March 2012 07:31 PM

Milktree - 10 March 2012 12:19 PM

This is from Mali, but doesn't it conjure a familiar Haitian music genre?

What Haitian music genre or artist share the resemblance?

Alot of Malian music sounds like old school compa.

This song is a great example. One can consider Haiti as the 9th West African Francophone country. They all are almost the same except Haiti does not have a Muslim population.

Carbbeanboy1, your example truly resembles our old school (60's) compas more so than I've heard before. Besides a known fact that some other parts in Africa did fall in love with Koupe Kloure's style and played with him, I 'd like to have official means of confirming Mali's involvement with Compas, but from my perspective Haitian musicians seem the originator of that genre... Would be curious to know what genre they call their version. Might they call it African Compas? lol!!...

Alain Possible - 13 March 2012 04:55 PM

Milktree - 13 March 2012 08:14 AM

caribbeanboy1 - 10 March 2012 07:31 PM

Milktree - 10 March 2012 12:19 PM

This is from Mali, but doesn't it conjure a familiar Haitian music genre?

What Haitian music genre or artist share the resemblance?

the first 15 second reminds me of one of Dieudonne Larose's songs.

I am not sure though if it is Mandela or that other popular song that he had

Mandela is a great song it was very popular as I recall. To my ears, it does not sound so closely to the Mali's version of Compas sound that has been compared here so far.

On another note, Always wondered why Larose or any other artist never did honor in likely fashion, many of those who were unjustly jailed and were made to suffer under the most inhuman fashion in Fort-Dimanche?

Perhaps it is because around the same time period I came across Larose's popular song on Mandela, I also recall reading Patrick Lemoine's detailed recount of his incarcerated years, and the cruel mistreatment suffered by many in Haitian prisons that I felt some similar type of acknowledgment was due, but based on my knowledge, this expectation has never come true still today.

vraiment ou se trouvait les Nations Unies quant Mandela etait incarcere ?

vraiment ou se trouvait les Nations Unies quant............... ?

caribbeanboy1 - 13 March 2012 04:03 PM

I will have to check what they call it. You are right about koupe klouye . He was big worldwide and I can say one of the biggest influential Haitian superstars. Haitian compa and Antillian zouk music have played major influences in African music. However, West african music has influenced Haitian artists as well. Haitian artists like Sweet Mickey for example (now President Martelly) has borrowed beats from popular West African artists like Cesoria Evora's Angola song from Cape Verdes Islands for his Pa manyen femme la comme ca 500 dolla track.

Milktree - 14 March 2012 10:51 AM

Alain Possible - 13 March 2012 04:55 PM

Milktree - 13 March 2012 08:14 AM

caribbeanboy1 - 10 March 2012 07:31 PM

Milktree - 10 March 2012 12:19 PM

This is from Mali, but doesn't it conjure a familiar Haitian music genre?

What Haitian music genre or artist share the resemblance?

the first 15 second reminds me of one of Dieudonne Larose's songs.

I am not sure though if it is Mandela or that other popular song that he had

Mandela is a great song it was very popular as I recall. To my ears, it does not sound so closely to the Mali's version of Compas sound that has been compared here so far.

On another note, Always wondered why Larose or any other artist never did honor in likely fashion, many of those who were unjustly jailed and were made to suffer under the most inhuman fashion in Fort-Dimanche?

Perhaps it is because around the same time period I came across Larose's popular song on Mandela, I also recall reading Patrick Lemoine's detailed recount of his incarcerated years, and the cruel mistreatment suffered by many in Haitian prisons that I felt some similar type of acknowledgment was due, but based on my knowledge, this expectation has never come true still today.

vraiment ou se trouvait les Nations Unies quant Mandela etait incarcere ?

vraiment ou se trouvait les Nations Unies quant............... ?

Milktree, you don't think that there is some similarities between Larose's beat and the video above?

L'ONU est rarement present dans les pays qui ont vraiment besoin de ses services.

SA a beneficie de l'absence de l'ONU. The UN Peacekeepers would have helped maintain the status quo and repress all the revolts for "peace" purposes.

Without those fight/revolts, Mandela would have still being in jail and apartheid might not have ended. At least that's how I see it.

Milktree - 04 March 2012 04:57 PM

?? eazeet.... zokikit