Félix Blume: Death In Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds from Port Au Prince
‘thriving tradition, a counterpart or updated version of those famous Dirge Jazz records’
- 01 Maestro Walter’s Brass Band “PRAN KWA MWEN”
- 02 Wake
- 03 Piano and Screaming
- 04 Funeral Procession “AMI FIDÈLE ET TENDRE”
- 05 Last Prayer
- 06 Prayers, Singings and Maestro Midouin’s Saxophone Solo
- 07 Maestro Walter’s Brass Band “MOURI JODI”
- 08 Last Words
- 09 Maestro Turenne’s Brass Band “LOT BO RIVYE A”
- 10 Marijuana, Rhum and Music around the Grave
- 11 Maestro Ronald’s Brass Band “JESUS SAUVEUR”
- 12 Cries
- 13 Maestro Turenne’s Brass Band “PITYE”
- 14 Blagueur Ti Batau, Last Joke
‘15 dead, 15 funerals, 16 funeral processions, 1 procession with no dead, 5 churches, 1 cemetery, 1 wake. 15 hours of recorded sounds are condensed into a vivid sound portrait depicting the way funerals and burials are lived in the Caribbean island of Haiti.
Recorded in Port au Prince by sound artist Félix Blume in early December 2016, Death in Haiti plunges the listener into a world of pain, loss and solemn celebration as each funeral comprises of its own live jazz band as well as a plethora of characters like the joker (le blaguer) who cracks jokes and tales about the recently deceased.
A beautiful document of a thriving tradition, a counterpart or updated version of those famous Dirge Jazz records such as the New Orleans’ Eureka Brass Band on Folkways.’
Félix Blume: Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds from Port Au Prince
‘thriving tradition, a counterpart or updated version of those famous Dirge Jazz records’
‘15 dead, 15 funerals, 16 funeral processions, 1 procession with no dead, 5 churches, 1 cemetery, 1 wake. 15 hours of recorded sounds are condensed into a vivid sound portrait depicting the way funerals and burials are lived in the Caribbean island of Haiti.
Recorded in Port au Prince by sound artist Félix Blume in early December 2016, Death in Haiti plunges the listener into a world of pain, loss and solemn celebration as each funeral comprises of its own live jazz band as well as a plethora of characters like the joker (le blaguer) who cracks jokes and tales about the recently deceased.
A beautiful document of a thriving tradition, a counterpart or updated version of those famous Dirge Jazz records such as the New Orleans’ Eureka Brass Band on Folkways.’