Ilan-Ilan - Kokoda (2021)

They say the flowers of the ilang-ilang tree (ilan-ilan in Haitian Creole) have a very soothing fragrance. They used to grow in abundance in the Port-au-Prince region and have a positive influence on one’s emotions… This album is the outcome of a project that began in the early Eighties, the fruit of the wonderful association between the musician Renòl (Reynold Henrys) and the late anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot, who died in 2012. Renòl here gives new life to popular rhythms that lie at the heart of Haiti’s incredibly rich folk heritage (Kokoda, Kontredans, Petwo, Igbo etc.), in songs that Michel-Rolph Trouillot revisited with his pen. The warm, twilight voice of Renòl is sustained by the sumptuous guitar of Serge Tamas and contributions from two tambouyés (the percussionists François Domergue and René Dambury. This marvellous music is a gem of rare precision, and it mingles poetry and the music of the Creoles with a very contemporary sense of tradition.

Renòl : chant, petites percussions
Serge Tamas : guitare, vaksin
François Domergue : percussions, vaksin
René Dambury : percussions.
Guest stars : Santi Debriano contrebasse (7,12) / Christophe Pélissié guitare (15)

Tracklist:
1.01 - Ilan-Ilan - M fin vye - ochan lavi (3:11)
1.02 - Ilan-Ilan - Jakomèl o (0:30)
1.03 - Ilan-Ilan - Bon lizay (3:34)
1.04 - Ilan-Ilan - Zanmi pre - 77 fwa 7 (3:23)
1.05 - Ilan-Ilan - Ba nou lawout o - plante zetwal (4:03)
1.06 - Ilan-Ilan - 3 fèy, 3 rasin o - melimelo (3:43)
1.07 - Ilan-Ilan - Waya... lamiral o - pase devan (6:03)
1.08 - Ilan-Ilan - I lan rara, wi ! (4:58)
1.09 - Ilan-Ilan - Gade konpè tande (0:27)
1.10 - Ilan-Ilan - Balize (3:43)
1.11 - Ilan-Ilan - Krepsòl (3:08)
1.12 - Ilan-Ilan - Kokoda (0:30)
1.13 - Ilan-Ilan - Sekrè (3:54)
1.14 - Ilan-Ilan - Rankontredans (3:59)
1.15 - Ilan-Ilan - M pa pote wannga - dife a (4:25)
1.16 - Ilan-Ilan - Nan raje (1:54)