Haiti Market, by Franck Biyong

Haiti Market

by Franck Biyong

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1.	Cosmo Riddim 03:48	buy track
2.	Miss your Water 06:01	buy track
3.	This Land 03:51	buy track
4.	Anywhere Trouble 05:19	buy track
5.	Dessalines Square 04:03	buy track
6.	Morning Blue 05:18	buy track
7.	Night of the Purple Circles 03:35	buy track
8.	Dao 02:02	buy track
9.	Radio Underground 05:41	buy track
10.	World of the Living 03:48	buy track
11.	Got to Get (Liberation) 04:04	buy track
12.	Sign of the Beautiful Strange 04:31	buy track
13.	Ralékow 04:08	buy track
14.	2081 05:58	buy track

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HAITI MARKET
2015 Remastered Version

Franck Biyong took his time, brewed up his sounds on
international circuits and the Paris underground scene…
and finally unleashed an album with a surprise at every corner.
Haiti Market is a challenging 14-tracker which embarks the
listener on a voyage right from its sizzling opener. Biyong’s
bass voice invites us to visit “the underground world”.
The Music he has composed is racy and spiced up by generous
doses of funk, jazz and soul – all to a strong bass line that oozes
with energy. Biyong’s confident vocals appear to have a certain
inspiration from the slick US funk movement of the late Seventies.

It makes Haiti Market a fascinating UFO with the slick production
of Afrolectric Music reflecting the maturity of the only French group
to have played SOB's in New York.  The smoothness of the musical
texture contrasts with the toughness of the lyrics. Like a velvet
glove  shrouding an iron fist the beauty of the poetry does not hide
the anger and denunciation driving Biyong. The mingling of
metaphors and poetry are omnipresent in the tracks, sung in
English, French, Pidgin English or Portuguese. Listeners will also
be impressed by the vocal jousts and experimentation between
Afro-funk chatter and the beguiling women harmonies.

This is a chilling music describing an apocalyptic world of shadows
and secrets. Offsetting this are throat-freeing laughs, playful ditties,
snatches of relaxed conversations and sounds of daily life. It gives
a feeling of a musical diary, a stream-of-consciousness with an
impressive swagger to it. But the apparent nonchalance does
not hide a rigor that should make this little known music break
through to greater things in the near future.   

Daniel Brown (Mondomix)

Recording Engineers: Auguste Manly & FB
Recorded at Viroflay Quadrature Studios,
Afrolectric Mobile Studios, Studio Bleu
Rhythm Arrangements by Auguste Manly & FB
Vocal Arrangements by Samantha Lavital & FB
Remastering: Benjamin Lafont & FB

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released November 22, 2007

DRUMS : Auguste Manly
PERCUSSION: Auguste Manly, F.B
TENOR SAXOPHONE, FLUTE: Nicolas Baudino
TRUMPET, FLUGEL HORN: Marc Borlet-Hotte
DRUM PROGRAMMING: Auguste Manly, F.B
VOICE: Nathalie Carrenard, Richard Simon
ACOUSTIC GUITAR (13): Jackson Thelemaque
LEAD VOCALS: Samantha Lavital, Chistina Violle (4)
Jackson Thelemaque (13), F.B
BACKING VOCALS: Samantha Lavital, Mansara (4,7,12)
Chistina Violle (4), Auguste Manly (10), F.B
BALAFON, ELECTRIC & ACOUSTIC GUITARS, BASS: F.B
KEYBOARDS, SYNTHESIZERS: Auguste Manly (10), F.B
WURLITZER & FENDER RHODES: Nicolas Baudino (5), F.B

© 2007 Afrolectric Music Ltd. / Akhetaton Records

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Franck Biyong Yaounde, Cameroon

Franck Biyong is a Cameroonian Guitarist, composer and singer, creator of the Afrolectric sound.

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