Terra Mater, Ex Innocentium Sanguine ut dolor tuus consolatus sit !
Mother Earth, should you be relieved from your pain because of the blood of the innocent
My latest album entitled “Kòman m Tande Flit La”! A musical jewel of Haitian classical music is available online now on Bandcamp!
Mon dernier album intitulé “Kòman m m Tande Flit La”! Un joyau musical de la musique classique haïtienne est disponible maintenant sur le site Bandcamp!
Click below to access the site!
Cliquer ci-dessous pour accéder au site!
Santiman Ginen pa janm gen vyolans ladan! Mezanmi, chante e pataje pou wen souple:
Dige Pou Viktwa Nou:
Klike sou mo “patisyon” anba a pou nou wè patisyon an!
Patisyon
To be included in my solo pieces for piano project to be released hopefully in 2024.
Katalolo
In order to promote and celebrate the cultural revolution “Natif”, I have written the musical theme, which one can hear below:
Mizik klasik Ayisyen an cho nan tout bèl bote li!
La musique classique haïtienne en effervescence dans sa beauté magnifique!
Haitian Classical music in effervescence in its magnificent beauty!
Mizik sa nan liv rekèy mwen ki rele “Pa Amou.”
Cette pièce est insérée dans mon recueil titré “Pa Amou.”
This piece written for a string quartet is included in my book entitled “Pa Amou.”
More than 20 years ago….. Voodoo Jazz in my mind!
Last song of one my performances at La Chaumière in Queens, New York.
Siye Planche
La musique de l’Orchestre Septentrional telle que je l’entends en 2021.
Men mizik Septan jan mwen tande li an 2021.
The music of the Orchestre Septentrional as I hear it in 2021.
Atis pa swiv fanatik. Se fanatik ki swiv atis. Kreyativite mande evolisyon. Evolisyon mizik Septan ponkò janm fèt vre.
Vye Tonton:
Pa Fè m Sa:
Cité du Cap-Haïtien
J’ai été toujours fasciné par la richesse et la diversité de notre musique. Aussi, ma grande passion de l’explorer m’a toujours permis de puiser dans une source vraiment inépuisable.
Diskolo: une fusion de la musique “siwèl”, vodou et du rara qui suggère fortement l’ambiance de nos “bandes à pied” qu’on pourra retrouver maintenant dans les clubs.
Mon dernier album EP vous offre six chansons de réjouissances épicées de nos traditions musicales fièrement gardées par nos paysans et les masses haïtiennes.
Gangans
Kadanse
Bonne écoute!
Tentative de publication en ligne de cet album: 15 août 2021.
Simply Haitian music at its best!
Limitless!
Zanj Ki Zanj Poze
Je crois qu’il serait bon, et je trouve que c’est très beau, d’interpréter des chansons populaires de nos prédécesseurs et de les adapter à partir de nos propres sentiments, émotions et aussi de notre personnelle expérience musicale. Aussi, permettez-moi de vous faire écouter cette adaptation musicale de “Vieux Tonton” de l’orchestre Septentrional. (version instrumentale numérisée.)
Vye Tonton
La chanson “Cité du Cap-Haïtien” composée par le feu maestro Ultrick Pierre-Louis de l’orchestre Septentrional, est considérée comme l’hymne du Cap-Haïtien, ma ville natale. Aussi, c’est avec une très grande fierté que j’ai arrangé cette merveilleuse composition pour un orchestre philharmonique à l’occasion du 350ème anniversaire de cette belle ville dont l’histoire a marqué le destin de la République d’Haïti, notre merveilleux pays.
Si le présent nous accable, que ce soit donc pour un futur digne de notre glorieux passé!
Cité du Cap-Haïtien
Proud to have been part of this context organized by El Systema Massachusetts in 2015.
Here is a copy of their answer to my submission:
Dear GI,
Thank you for your hard work and submission for the 2015 El Sistema Massachusetts Composition Contest. All of the compositions were outstanding and we were hard pressed to choose just one winner.
After a long deliberation and careful consideration for our goals for this project, we have selected the composition What We Will Be by Danielle Williams as the winner of the contest.
Because your composition was so well received, we would be very honored if you would consider allowing your piece to be performed by interested El Sistema programs both in Massachusetts and around the world. If you are interested in such performance and publicity opportunities, please respond, so we can share a few options with you. Once again, thank you for your hard work on writing this piece for us.
Best,
Diane Cline.
The Light Within
Open my heart and see the light within
Open my heart and see this light shining
It’s feeding my soul with love
Will you hold my hand
For I’m just a friend
Passing through this land
Before reaching the stars?
High in the sky
There in the heavens
I’ll be shining some day
From this light within
Open my heeart and see the light within
Open my heart and see this light shining
It’s feeding my soul with love
With love , with love
Lyrics and Music by Gifrants.
Yep! For four years, from 1990 to 1994, I have approached this genre within the spectrum of Haitian music. It is a fusion of voodoo rhythms and Jazz from the improvisational aspect of the latter. The name of the band then was “Gifrants, Sanba Daki” and I had the privilege to have the collaboration of extremely talented musicians such as: Jimmy Daniel on drums, Jean-Baptiste “Bonga” Gaston on percussion, Jacqz Vincent on keys, Carol Chaikin on flute, soprano and tenor sax, Steve…. (He played with Little Richard for some time) and I was the singer and the guitarist.
This genre was “hot”. We have recorded one of our rehearsals and sent to Larry Brown of SOB’s and to Nell’s. We did have a gig at both places which was pretty amazing at that time. Here are two tracks of live recording at “La Chaumière” in Queens, NY.
Vodou Inosan
Sye Planche
Born in Cap-Haïtien, I have enjoyed the pride of being a Capois. Living and growing in the Northern part of Haiti, I have enjoyed the glory of being of one Henri Christophe’s descendant.
As tough as it is to solve Haiti’s major problems, as important as it is also for each and every one of us to contribute to the best of our abilities to the improvement of the lives of all our Haitian brothers and sisters, all of them, without taking social status or class in to account.
As a musician, I have taken upon myself to arrange “Cité du Cap-Haitien”, a song written fifty-two years ago by Ulrich Pierre-Louis, the maestro of the Orchestre Septentrional. This song has become the local hymn of the Capois and the Nordistes of Haiti. I have arranged it in such a way that it remains our local hymn forever.
Yes! I’m extremely proud to be a Capois and a Christophien.
Cité du Cap-Haïtien