10 years after game-changing album ‘Creole Soul’s’ release, Etienne Charles’ Caribbean sound is still expanding.
For Trinidadian trumpeter and percussionist Etienne Charles, rhythm doesn’t just organize a tune. It reveals historical origins and tracks sojourns both forced and voluntary.
“There’s been a significant tilt to Caribbean dance music, rocksteady and reggae, since we’re digging around in the diaspora and looking at the 75th anniversary of Windrush,” Charles said of the post-World War II program that brought workers from Britain’s Caribbean territories to ease the U.K.’s labor shortages. “They left their lives in the Caribbean and came to the shores of what was known as the Mother Country.
“She has a powerful voice and I love the way she interprets standards,” Charles said. “Also the way she interprets calypsos and Jamaican folk songs. We might have to do a nod to Harry Belafonte as well. I’ve been playing some of the tunes he recorded a long time ago, but more the original versions, the way Lord Melody recorded them.”
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