Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra review – a noble oddity

(Glitterbeat)The eponymous title accurately reflects this 2014 superjam, staged in Port-au-Prince with Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen mixing it with the elite of local groups in what proves an almost seamless fusion. Allen and his core group lay down Afrobeat’s familiar loping grooves, and Haitian musicians weigh in with call-and-response chants and invocations from the vodou tradition. Less expected is the strain of futurism, with France’s Olaf Hund adding sinuous synth lines and Gla...

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