Mini All Stars “Compas”

Mini All Stars
Compas
Mini Records (US) 1982
MRS 1150 (LP)
sleeve : EX-(light collapse on corner, slightly color-fade.)
media : EX+/EX+(some slightly surface noises, still good.)

This album was released in 1982 by Mini All Stars, a group from Haiti, an island nation in the West Indies of Central America, formed in the mid-1970s around singer/guitarist Toto Necessite. The group plays compas sung in Creole French in the style of Afro-Caribbean music, which is a fusion of traditional Haitian religious music such as Lala, Melang and Misik Racine. It is a bright and cheerful tropical music with a unique rhythm accentuated on the third beat and a colorful ensemble of electric guitars, horns, and accordions playing a flowing melody. B2 is a very modern arrangement.