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Born in Montreal 46 years ago to parents originally from Haiti, poly-instrumentalist Jowee Omicil made a name for himself in France in the mid-2010s by masterfully incarnating the “Poetics of Relation”, through a series of hybrid and proudly multiculturalist projects, that, according to poet Édouard Glissant of Martinique, fuel the motor of creole thought and its syncretic aesthetic. Now Omicil creates a true masterpiece, in the form of SpirituaL HeaLinG: Bwa KayiMan FreedoM Suite, an album inspired by the legendary Bois Caïman ceremony that inaugurated Haiti’s first large-scale collective uprising against slavery on August 14, 1791. It’s a political and poetic manifesto, synthesising as if by magic the art of recycling, of collage, and of overall blending that has characterised and underpinned his artistic expression since the very beginning. Surrounded by musicians who belong, in differing degrees, to the Caribbean diaspora (Randy Kerber and Jonathan Jurion on piano and keyboard, Jendah Manga on electric bass, Arnaud Dolmen and Yoann Danier on drums and percussion), Jowee Omicil, going effortlessly from alto sax to bass clarinet, from horn to flute, sets out on a long and passionate collective improvisation, split apart post-recording into 21 tracks, and presented as the many facets and lines of flight of a single ritual ceremony. Dramatically extending his territory by multiplying shifting zones of exchange and friction at its borders, where styles and genres penetrate one another in unprecedented hybridizations (one hears not only the ghosts of Don Cherry, Miles Davis, Rashaan Roland Kirk, and John Coltrane, but also the distorted echoes of creole music past and present), this bewitching suite ends up brilliantly reaffirming the simultaneously composite and syncretic beauty of our globalised humanity. © Stéphane Ollivier/Qobuz
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Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
Jowee Omicil, Lyricist, MainArtist
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records
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Born in Montreal 46 years ago to parents originally from Haiti, poly-instrumentalist Jowee Omicil made a name for himself in France in the mid-2010s by masterfully incarnating the “Poetics of Relation”, through a series of hybrid and proudly multiculturalist projects, that, according to poet Édouard Glissant of Martinique, fuel the motor of creole thought and its syncretic aesthetic. Now Omicil creates a true masterpiece, in the form of SpirituaL HeaLinG: Bwa KayiMan FreedoM Suite, an album inspired by the legendary Bois Caïman ceremony that inaugurated Haiti’s first large-scale collective uprising against slavery on August 14, 1791. It’s a political and poetic manifesto, synthesising as if by magic the art of recycling, of collage, and of overall blending that has characterised and underpinned his artistic expression since the very beginning. Surrounded by musicians who belong, in differing degrees, to the Caribbean diaspora (Randy Kerber and Jonathan Jurion on piano and keyboard, Jendah Manga on electric bass, Arnaud Dolmen and Yoann Danier on drums and percussion), Jowee Omicil, going effortlessly from alto sax to bass clarinet, from horn to flute, sets out on a long and passionate collective improvisation, split apart post-recording into 21 tracks, and presented as the many facets and lines of flight of a single ritual ceremony. Dramatically extending his territory by multiplying shifting zones of exchange and friction at its borders, where styles and genres penetrate one another in unprecedented hybridizations (one hears not only the ghosts of Don Cherry, Miles Davis, Rashaan Roland Kirk, and John Coltrane, but also the distorted echoes of creole music past and present), this bewitching suite ends up brilliantly reaffirming the simultaneously composite and syncretic beauty of our globalised humanity. © Stéphane Ollivier/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:00:48
- Main artists: Jowee Omicil
- Label: BasH! Village records
- Genre: Jazz
2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor 2023 BasH! Village Records / Modulor
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