Moonlight Benjamin - Siltane - 2018

Moonlight Benjamin / Siltane

Жанр: haitian voodoo, blues rock, singer-songwriter
Носитель: WEB
Страна-производитель диска (релиза): France
Год издания: 2018
Номер по каталогу: MACASE025
Страна исполнителя (группы): Haiti
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 00:41:34
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Треклист:

02 Papa Legba (3:47)

04 Siltane (4:08)

05 Simbi (1:08)

06 Chan dayiva (4:27)

08 Doux pays (4:08)

09 Tan malouk (4:15)

10 Des murs (4:14)

11 Mèt agwe (3:29)
Доп. информация: moonlightbenjamin/

Об исполнителе (англ.) | About Artist (en)

Moonlight Benjamin describes her music as a blend of voodoo and rock’n’roll. Born in Haiti and living in France, she is both a voodoo priestess and a powerful singer-songwriter with an impressive vocal range. Benjamin sounds thrilling, thoughtful and, at times, downright spooky. Title track Siltane is one of the songs of the year. It starts as a brooding, bluesy Haitian rock ballad and slowly builds, with a controlled power and sense of danger and theatricality that makes her sound like a Caribbean Patti Smith.
This has been a great year for Haitian music, thanks to new albums from RAM and Mélissa Laveaux, and a memorable double bill by Laveaux and Leyla McCalla at the London jazz festival. Now comes Benjamin, an artist with an intriguing history. Her mother died giving birth to her, and Benjamin was brought up singing hymns in a church orphanage. Later, in Port-au-Prince, she met voodoo musicians and listened to western rock, then moved to France, where she studied jazz. In 2009, she travelled back to Haiti for a voodoo initiation.
As a musician, she experimented with different styles before settling on the current lineup of a Haitian bass player and percussionist, a rock drummer and guitarist Matthis Pascaud, who transforms her songs with his powerful riffs. There’s one traditional track, Simbi, paying tribute to a water spirit; and there’s one ballad, Mèt Agwe, to show she can also handle quieter songs. For the most part, though, this is an album of no-nonsense Haitian blues-rock, with stories of the voodoo spirit world or life in Port-au-Prince mixed in with lyrics by Haitian writers. All of it is dominated by Benjamin’s exhilarating voice.
theguardian/music/2018/nov/30/moonlight-benjamin-siltane-review-no-nonsense-haitian-blues-rock

Об альбоме (англ.) | About Album (en)
The powerful and original fusion between the caribbean voodoo melodies and rhythms, and the 70's us blues rock; the shock between moonlight's powerful and rebellious voice and the tension of saturated guitars ... the voodoo trance in a new and explosive style !
moonlightbenjamin/

Состав | Artists
Vocals, Written By - Moonlight BenjaminGuitar - Matthis PascaudBass - Marck-Richard Mirand (tracks: 1-6,8,9-11)
Drums - Bertrand NoëlKeyboards - Tony PalemanPercussion - Claude SaturneComposed By - Matthis Pascaud, Moonlight BenjaminMastered, Mixed By - Tony PalemanRecorded By - Jeff ManuelPhotography, Artwork - Nöt
Мощное и оригинальное слияние карибских мелодий с ритмами вуду и американским блюз-роком 70-х. Мятежный голос Moonlight Benjamin в тандеме с насыщенными гитарными рифами (а-ля блюз-рок Джека Уайта) сплетается во взрывной гаитянский вуду-транс. Певица родилась на Гаити, а живет во Франции. Мать гаитянской исполнительницы умерла сразу после ее рождения, так что Бенжамен была воспитана в церковном приюте под пение сакральных гимнов. Прежде, чем прийти к нынешней гремучей смеси в музыке, она экспериментировала с разными стилями, параллельно увлекаясь коренной музыкой вуду и западным роком. Затем, переехав во Францию, она изучала основы джаза. В 2009 году Бенжамен отправилась обратно на Гаити для посвящения в таинства вуду. Ныне она одновременно - жрица вуду и воинственная певица, оригинальный автор песен с запредельным вокальным диапазоном.