Music from Haïti
Music of the world
This second volume of ‘Haitian Peasant Music’ is a music fiction, a medley of the vast collections gathered off the beaten tracks from Haitian peasants during the winters of 1997 and 1998-99, and the music of Royal Bonbon, a movie by Charles Najman: A lunatic thinks he is King Christophe, a former slave and the liberator of Haiti in 1804. Roi Chacha—as he is nicknamed— reconstructs a cheap, shoddy “court”, and absurdly reigns in the Sans Souci palace, now in ruin. Alone, abandoned by all, the mad, despotic king will end up killing himself in his baroque palace.
Pistes
- Soleil la chaud
- Au fil de lune
- C'est moi-même, même !
- Damballah
- Apollon est monté sur la lune
- Grande batala
- Croisez les 8
- 100 soldats
- Par trois fois
- L'était une bergère
- Les 14 stations
- La prière de Milot et les marins
- La mort, il faut l'exécuter
- Eclipse
