Tiroro
Best Drummer in Haiti
Cook Records (US) 1956
5004 (LP)
sleeve : VG+(SPSE: small cracks on side, wear on corner, dirts.)
media : EX-/EX-(some light surface noise and light click noise.)
Featured in the guidebook OBSCURE SOUND REVISED EDITION. A miraculous 1956 recording by legendary Haitian percussionist Ti Roro, issued on the American label Cook Records—an artist said to have influenced jazz greats including Max Roach.
Across the entire album, Ti Roro unfolds the ritual music of Vodou, the syncretic religion born in Haiti through the fusion of West African (Fon) spiritual traditions—brought to the Caribbean during the colonial era—and Christianity. With nothing more than hand-made percussion, he summons an astonishingly physical, almost superhuman groove: raw, relentless, and utterly trance-inducing Vodou rhythm music of the highest order. Whether the recording is overdriven from hot levels or the instruments themselves naturally produce this saturated intensity is impossible to tell—but the result is a dangerously powerful, blown-out sonic presence. The electrified overdrive sensation is overwhelming: goosebumps guaranteed, like current surging straight through the body. This is extraordinary. Highest recommendation.
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Best Drummer in Haiti
Cook Records (US) 1956
5004 (LP)
sleeve : VG+(SPSE: small cracks on side, wear on corner, dirts.)
media : EX-/EX-(some light surface noise and light click noise.)
Featured in the guidebook OBSCURE SOUND REVISED EDITION. A miraculous 1956 recording by legendary Haitian percussionist Ti Roro, issued on the American label Cook Records—an artist said to have influenced jazz greats including Max Roach.
Across the entire album, Ti Roro unfolds the ritual music of Vodou, the syncretic religion born in Haiti through the fusion of West African (Fon) spiritual traditions—brought to the Caribbean during the colonial era—and Christianity. With nothing more than hand-made percussion, he summons an astonishingly physical, almost superhuman groove: raw, relentless, and utterly trance-inducing Vodou rhythm music of the highest order. Whether the recording is overdriven from hot levels or the instruments themselves naturally produce this saturated intensity is impossible to tell—but the result is a dangerously powerful, blown-out sonic presence. The electrified overdrive sensation is overwhelming: goosebumps guaranteed, like current surging straight through the body. This is extraordinary. Highest recommendation.
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