Vodou Adjae

Vodou Adjae
Studio album by
Boukman Eksperyans
Released1991
GenreWorld
LabelMango
Boukman Eksperyans chronology
Vodou Adjae
(1991) 		Kalfou Danjere
(1992)

Vodou Adjae is the first album of the Haitian music group Boukman Eksperyans. It is distributed in the United States and Canada by Mango, a division of Island Records.[1] All of the songs are in Haitian Creole.[2]

AllMusic called Vodou Adjae an "exciting blend of traditional drum rhythms and modern Caribbean pop attack".[3] The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1991.[4] The song "Ké-M Pa Sote" was described as "the group’s most popular and controversial song" by the Miami Herald. It was banned from being broadcast, and it was used by supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president, who was deposed by the military.[5][6]

Track listing

  1. "Se Kreyól Nou Ye" (We're Creole)
  2. "Nou La" (We're Here)
  3. "Plante" (Plant!)
  4. "Ké-M Pa Sote" (My Heart Doesn't Leap/I'm Not Afraid)
  5. "Tribilasyon" (Tribulation)
  6. "Nou Pap Sa Bliye" (We Cannot Forget)
  7. "Wet Chen" (Get Angry, Break the Chains)
  8. "Mizik A Manzé" (Song for a Woman)
  9. "Mizeréré" (Misery Follows You)
  10. "Malere" (Poor)
  11. "Pwason Rat" (Rat Poison)

References

  1. ^ "DUVALIER NEMESIS". Chicago Tribune. 25 December 1992. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  2. ^ Pareles, Jon (10 March 1991). "RECORDINGS VIEW; When Messages Hide in Riffs And Rhythms". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Boukman Eksperyans - Vodou Adjae". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  4. ^ Brown, Joe (22 July 1993). "No Substitute For Eksperyans". Washington Post. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Boukman Eksperyans return to South Florida for Big Night in Little Haiti". Miami Herald. 15 November 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  6. ^ Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2001). AllMusic guide: the definitive guide to popular music. San Francisco: Backbeat Books/All Media Guide. p. 902. ISBN 978-0-87930-627-4. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
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