L'essentiel Coupe Cloue_音乐专辑
L'essentiel Coupe Cloue
又名: 海地歌手Coupe Cloue精选集
表演者: Coupe Cloue
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1990-01-01
唱片数: 1
出版者: Mini Records
条形码: 0705727106720
专辑简介
Jean Gesner Henri("Coupe Cloue")
1925-1997
Jean Gesner Henri was born in Leogane, Haiti on May 10th 1925.
Gesner Henri was know as Coupe Cloue, a nick name he acquired as a result of his prowess on the soccer pitch ("coupe" means "cut", and "cloue", "nail").
Inspired by Cuban bolero and son, he began to perform as a guitarist in Port-au-Prince in 1951.
In 1957 he formed Trio Crystal which was later renamed Trio Select. They played their own version of "twoubadou" music in the clubs and parties of Port-au-Prince.
Twoubadou is a style of music based on the sounds brought back to Haiti by Haitan cane cutters who had worked in Cuba.
Coupé's first band, Trio Select, championed a synthesis of jazz, Haitian méringue and folk rhythms, and helped to popularise the use of the guitar in Haiti in the 1950s and 60s.
Trio Select featured Coupe him self, a second guitarist and a maracas player. A more common name for the maracas in Haiti is "Tcha-Tcha".
The group serenaded at small parties and finally in 1960 they released their first album.
Trio Select evolved a rhythmic formula related to Haitian compas but retaining a Cuban flavour. A major part of Coupé's appeal with the Haitian masses was his use of Creole lyrics and raps, full of current slang, double entendres and jokes.
As the band grew in the 1970s they changed the name from Trio Selct to "Ensemble Select de Coupe Cloue".
COUPE CLOUE BECAME "ROI COUPE" - On his first tour of central Africa in 1975, Coupe Cloue toured West Africa, where the local soukous music had a distinct similarity to the group's own sound.
This where Coupe Cloue was given the title Le Roi ("the king") by local fans.
Coupe Cloue has produced over thirty albums for many different Haitian labels in his thirty years as a performer.
His consistency and productivity are stunning achievements in a country were the music has witnessed such drastic changes;
from the advent of rock-influenced mini jazz bands in the late 60s, to the big horn sections of the late 70s, and to the synthesizer and electronic revolution of the 80s. More recently compas has been challenged in haiti by roots-oriented styles and a movement dubbed the "new generation".
Meanwhile Coupe and his band kept doing what they do best: producing lyrically-clever and enjoyable dance music.
While many of Haiti's best artist fled the country for the relative security of Haitian communities in the U.S and Canada Coupe has remained Home.
However, as the decade progressed the diabetes he had developed began to take its toll. He gave his final performance in December 1997 and died a month later.
曲目
1.Fem′m Kolokinte
2.Mon Coupe/Ti Bom
3.Net Al Cole
4.Leogane
5.Bel Ti Ange
6.Marie Claire/Pot Pourri
7.Cherie Min Coupe
