Musician, poet and painter Roland Brival's 1980 album is a lost classic of Caribbean spiritual jazz. Recorded with a group of Martinique's top musicians, and combining the bèlè percussion traditions of the island with free flowing saxophone, rhodes flourishes and languorous bass, the album was rejected by Roland's label of the time, and was ultimately self released in miniscule quantities to a small local audience. Themes of créole identity and colonial injustice combined with universal ideas of love and longing sung in Créole, English and French sound like an Antillean answer to Gary Bartz and Jon Lucien, underpinned with the insistent rhythms of the ti bois percussion. Long unheralded in the English speaking world, Créole Gypsy is a key piece of the jigsaw of Caribbean music.
Newly remastered and presented in a luxury flipback sleeve.
Tracklist A1 Créole Gypsy A2 Abcd A3 Tan Joue Mab B1 Tunji B2 Chaj Milé-a B3 Just For You (Eden)
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Musician, poet and painter Roland Brival's 1980 album is a lost classic of Caribbean spiritual jazz.
Recorded with a group of Martinique's top musicians, and combining the bèlè percussion traditions of the island with free flowing saxophone, rhodes flourishes and languorous bass, the album was rejected by Roland's label of the time, and was ultimately self released in miniscule quantities to a small local audience. Themes of créole identity and colonial injustice combined with universal ideas of love and longing sung in Créole, English and French sound like an Antillean answer to Gary Bartz and Jon Lucien, underpinned with the insistent rhythms of the ti bois percussion. Long unheralded in the English speaking world, Créole Gypsy is a key piece of the jigsaw of Caribbean music.
Newly remastered and presented in a luxury flipback sleeve.
Tracklist
A1 Créole Gypsy
A2 Abcd
A3 Tan Joue Mab
B1 Tunji
B2 Chaj Milé-a
B3 Just For You (Eden)