Les Indiens de Guadeloupe

A short video on Indian migration to Guadeloupe. 

Les Kombass Play Haitian Music

"Loulou" is a beautiful Haitian meringue from the French Antilles. Featuring the legendary Henri Debs and Kombass, one can only expect high quality work. Debs would later make a name for himself as a producer of zouk music after playing in bands in the 1950s and 1960s. For more of their music, listen to their lively (and jazzy) biguine, "A Mon Ami Al Lirvat" I highly recommend reading Zouk: Music World in the West Indies by Jocelyn Guilbaut for more information.

Merengue From Cape Verde

An interesting merengue from a Cape Verdean legend, Luis Morais. The song alludes to an earlier relationship between music of the French Antilles and Cape Verde given the French Creole title which shares the same name with a song from Remy Mondey. Because of the popularity of zouk in Cape Verde, and zouk's origins in Haitian compas, which itself has links to Dominican merengue, one can see roots and routes going all directions in the music of the Black Atlantic.