Bossa Combo de Haïti – 1975

🇭🇹 🎺 🌍 🥁 🔥 In 1975, le Bossa Combo de Haïti made an infidelity to the country’s music labels and recorded this eponymous album with Barclay instead of the traditional Marc or Mini Records. It was to be their only album. The band had already been a compas benchmark since the late 60s, and this is a high-energy album. Compas more than direct, by a big band in top form. The arrangements sometimes veer towards Africa, with guitars clearly inspired by Congolese rumba – the excellent Tribulations opens the album. But it’s never far from voodoo either (Acacias) or carnival trance, with plenty of percussion. The musician credits are once again overlooked, but from the compositions it’s reasonable to assume that they include the ever-popular Raymond Cajuste, as well as Rodrigue Toussaint, Alfred Michel, Jean-Robert Damas and Jean-Claude Dorsainville.