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Posté à l'origine par Jacozinho: How was this musical Genre created ? what are its roots ? Anyone care to enlight us... |
Martinique and Guadeloupe's musical traditions had evolved many different genres, the two most popular being BIGUINE and MAZURKA.
Then came Haiti's wave of "Mini-Jazz" bands in the sixties and seventies )Ibo Combo, Afro Combo, Loups Noirs, Fantaisistes de Carrefour, Sheushleu, etc.) which were heavily copied/imitated in the French West Indies (Les Aiglons, Grammacks, Exile one, etc.)
In the late seventies, early eighties Jacob Devarieux and the Decimus Brothers (Georges & Pierre-Edouard) got together and decided to stop imitating Haitian bands. Those guys went to Paris and formed KASSAV, marking the birth of what we know today as ZOUK! (A cadenced swing with a heavy bass (like) Reggae and a steady rhythm, with less variation than the compas sound of those days.
Le Dossier Zouk 
03-23-01, 10:13 PM
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