Sakésho – 2002

🎹🥁🇬🇵🎶🌴 This autumn sees the reformation of an exceptional Caribbean quartet, Sakésho, who made their mark at the start of this still young century. In 2002, Mario Canonge, Andy Narell, Michel Alibo and Jean-Philippe Fanfant released the group’s eponymous first album, a standard-bearer for pan-Caribbean Creole jazz that drew its influences from Trinidad to Haiti, via Guadeloupe and Martinique. On this first album, Sakésho uses compositions by the four musicians to deliver rearranged versions of some of their best-known songs, such as Mabouya (Andy Narell), Grand Fabrice (Michel Alibo with Sixun) and Kon Djab Djigidji (Mario Canonge with Kann’), featuring steel drums and piano. The group’s repertoire includes a second album, We Want You To Say… Yeah! and a DVD recorded at LaKaza in Guadeloupe in 2003. In the meantime, several concerts are scheduled, at Le Baiser Salé and Le Sunside, in the coming days.