King Kléro Zouc – 1979

🎤⚓🇬🇵🎺🔥 Singer with Les Vikings de la Guadeloupe, Maurice Claire also performed solo, under the pseudonym King Klero. In 1979, backed by Guy Jacquet, he launched his Zouc, partying, which was not yet zouk. With its energetic rhythm and generous brass and heavy bass arrangements, this is an opus that does not give way to melancholy. The B-side opens with the irresistible Laissé Nou Zouké, which spans a good ten minutes. A real challenge for the dancers. Unfortunately, the credits are once again absent. However, a few jazz saxophone interventions, sometimes bordering on the free, suggest that Camille Sopran’n, already mentioned in the mix, is probably also involved in the music. The album closes with a nod to the English-speaking Caribbean, with cadence-lypso from Exile One and calypso from Trinidad. Let’s (almost) zouk!