Vodou Adjae is the first album of the Haitian music group Boukman Eksperyans. It is distributed in the United States and Canada by Mango, a division of Island Records.[1] All of the songs are in Haitian Creole.[2]
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| Released | 1991 | |||
| Genre | World | |||
| Label | Mango | |||
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AllMusic called Vodou Adjae an "exciting blend of traditional drum rhythms and modern Caribbean pop attack".[3] The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1991.[4] The song "Ké-M Pa Sote" was described as "the group’s most popular and controversial song" by the Miami Herald. It was banned from being broadcast, and it was used by supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president, who was deposed by the military.[5][6]
Track listing
edit- "Se Kreyól Nou Ye" (We're Creole)
- "Nou La" (We're Here)
- "Plante" (Plant!)
- "Ké-M Pa Sote" (My Heart Doesn't Leap/I'm Not Afraid)
- "Tribilasyon" (Tribulation)
- "Nou Pap Sa Bliye" (We Cannot Forget)
- "Wet Chen" (Get Angry, Break the Chains)
- "Mizik A Manzé" (Song for a Woman)
- "Mizeréré" (Misery Follows You)
- "Malere" (Poor)
- "Pwason Rat" (Rat Poison)
References
edit- ^ "DUVALIER NEMESIS". Chicago Tribune. 25 December 1992. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Pareles, Jon (10 March 1991). "RECORDINGS VIEW; When Messages Hide in Riffs And Rhythms". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ "Boukman Eksperyans - Vodou Adjae". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Brown, Joe (22 July 1993). "No Substitute For Eksperyans". Washington Post. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ "Boukman Eksperyans return to South Florida for Big Night in Little Haiti". Miami Herald. 15 November 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2001). AllMusic guide: the definitive guide to popular music. San Francisco: Backbeat Books/All Media Guide. p. 902. ISBN 978-0-87930-627-4. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
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