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PELERINAJ * PELERINAGE * PILGRIMAGE
BENEFIT CONCERT for HAITI by Erol Josue
FEBRUARY 6th, Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University East Campus, 8 p.m.
Listen to Yege Dahomen by Erol Josue
The New York Times has described Josue’s music in this way: “A Haitian singer-songwriter and a recent arrival to New York, Erol Josué has an obsession similar to that of some of his best Brazilian and Cuban contemporaries: connecting the ancient and the future, urban and country, the old and new world in one ball of modernity. On ”Régléman”(Mi5), his first album, Mr. Josué engages in what he calls ”electro-vodou,” which means juxtaposing voodoo-ritual chants with synthesizer tones, overdriven thumb-piano riffs, Afro-funk guitar rhythm, echoey textures. And yet these tracks are all sturdy at the center, folk songs with messages about exile, ecology and the persistence of cultural memory.”
