Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds from Port au Prince, by Félix Blume

Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds from Port au Prince

by Félix Blume

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jiristepan It's a very strange record, the music is great, but the feeling of inadequacy and voyeurism when you enter the immediate world of people you've never met is fascinating and chilling at the same time.

Rudy Carrera See here: amiscellany.info/2019/03/21/music-felix-blume-death-in-haiti-funeral-brass-bands-sounds-from-port-au-prince/ Favorite track: Maestro Turenne's Brass Band "PITYE".

Alfie This is a gripping, deeply tragic and unique listening experience. The care and precision taken in the recording of these events leaves the pain in each scream, weep and musical performance ringing with such clarity and utter emotional potency.

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1.	Maestro Walter's Brass Band "Pran Kwa Mwen" 04:30	buy track
2.	Wake 01:44	buy track
3.	Piano and Screaming 01:53	buy track
4.	Funeral Procession "AMI FIDÉLE ET TENDRE" 02:46	buy track
5.	Last Prayer 00:58	buy track
6.	Prayers, Singings and Maestro Midouin's Saxophone solo 04:33	buy track
7.	Maestro Walter's Brass Band "MOURI JODI" 04:16	buy track
8.	Last Words 00:52	buy track
9.	Maestro Turenne's Brass Band "LOT BO RIVYE A" 03:40	buy track
10.	Marijuana, Rhum and Music around the Graveyard 02:46	buy track
11.	Maestro Ronald's Brass Band "JESUS SAUVEUR" 04:51	buy track
12.	Cries 02:13	buy track
13.	Maestro Turenne's Brass Band "PITYE" 04:05	buy track
14.	Blagueur Ti Batau, Last Joke 01:35	buy track

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15 dead, 15 funerals, 16 funeral processions, 1 procession with no dead, 5 churches, 1 cemetery, 1 wake.
15 hours of recorded sounds are condensed into a vivid sound portrait depicting the way funerals and burials are lived in the Caribbean island of Haiti. Recorded in Port au Prince by sound artist Félix Blume in early December 2016, Death in Haiti plunges the listener into a world of pain, loss and solemn celebration as each funeral comprises of its own live jazz band as well as a plethora of characters like the joker (le blaguer) who cracks jokes and tales about the recently deceased.
A beautiful document of a thriving tradition, a counterpart or updated version of those famous Dirge Jazz records such as the New Orleans’ Eureka Brass Band on Folkways.

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released January 26, 2018

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