Voyage of Dreams

Disc: 1

1. Lòt Bò Dlo (Across the Sea)

2. Priyè-A (The Prayer)

3. Ibo Lele

4. Al Di Yo (Interlude) (Go Tell Them)

5. Al Di Yo (Go Tell Them)

6. Kanpe (Get Up)

7. Pitit Solèy (Daughter of the Sun)

8. Tribute to Ernie (Ochan Pou Ti-Nès)

Disc: 2

1. Fredo's Jazzy Fingers (Dwèt Djaz Fredo)

2. Lakou-A (The Courtyard)

3. Li Lè (It's Time)

4. Rara Shout Outs

5. Kote Moun Yo (Where Are the People)

6. Kote Moun Yo (Where Are the People)

7. Pouki (Why)

8. Voyage of Dreams

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist
Jephté's solo career was launched in 1994, with the release of his first hit single "Onè Respè." His next hit single, "The Prayer (Priyè- a)," found its way into DJ rotations around the world, emerging from New York clubs like Body and Soul, "Little" Louie Vega's Dance Ritual, The Shelter and Brooklyn's Bang the Party as an instant underground success. This success was cemented with a stunning performance by Jephté Guillaume and the Tet Kale Orkestra at Body & Soul's Central Park Summerstage celebration in the summer of 1999. His critically acclaimed self-produced debut album "Voyage of Dreams" was released to universal praise and astonishment, following the international success of several 12" singles for Spiritual Life Music, which helped to establish the label as a global musical force to be reckoned with. And his work has already appeared on a host of compilations on labels such as Nuphonic, Island/Hannibal, React, JVC Japan, Wave (Body & Soul compilation Volume 1 & 2), Sony/Rhythmix France (Trip do Brasil I & II), Avex/Japan, Polygram/Motor, Chrysalis/EMI France, Virgin/France, Life Line/Japan and Flower/Japan.

The many releases of Jephté (including "Love Light" & "Rhythm of the Rain") are filled with substantial themes of struggle and liberation, but driven by the elements that make us dance: drum loaded tracks, and lots of live bass. Enticing keyboard melodies, seamless flute riffs, supernatural vocals, and the occasional flamenco-like guitar seem to emerge naturally from his festive rhythms. The result is a new sound - one that integrates a revolutionary Haitian spirit with an electronic groove for the technologically astute.

Jephté has spent the last few years on the club circuit, making his mark on the electronica movement. A sought-after bassist and multi-instrumentalist who has played with a wide range of major artists from R&B (Groove Theory),nu-soul (Mary J. Blige), Hip-Hop (Refugee All-Stars Band, Slick Rick), Acid Jazz (Abstract Truth), Pop (98 degrees, No Mercy, Sting & Jermaine Jackson), Haitian Raggamuffin (Papa Jube), French Reggae (Tonton David), French Hip-Hop Reggae (Real Kila), and Gospel (Timothy Wright, The Daughtry Singers of the House of the Lord from Brooklyn), he is obviously serious when he says, "Wherever there is music, I am there."

Born in Haiti, but uprooted to Brooklyn with his family during the Duvalier regime, Jephté Guillaume is a unique addition to the trajectory of Haitian musicians such as Boukman Eksperyans, whose music transforms Vodun spirituality and African ancestry into something universally understood. "Everywhere go, people ask me about the spirituality in my music - they may not know Kreyol, but they sing along." True to his roots, Jephte's lyrics come from Haitian folk and devotional chants, offering praise to the ancestors and calling for the listeners to get up and connect to their spiritual homes. Like Nigeria's Fela Kuti and Cameroon's Manu Dibango did in their ways for their cultures, Jephté Guillaume does for his by building a bridge between American Soul, Jazz, and music traditions that come directly from the Haitian experience. "The Haitian drums are everywhere, just like the Spirits themselves," he says. It is these Spirits who pervade the Tet Kale sound.

The infectious mixture of diverse elements in Jephté Guillaume's music comes as no surprise, when one looks at his eclectic career. He is known within the Haitian community as a former founding member of the renowned roots-rock band Rara Machine, which toured worldwide. While in the U.S., he has developed a committed international dance audience, released his own vibrant recordings as well as produced successful remixes for a diverse collection of artists including Amel Larrieux, Clara Moreno, Pushim, Toni Braxton, Wild Magnolias, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Calyn and Glen Scott.

Product Description
"Voyage Of Dreams", produced by Jephté Guillaume, provides a delicate balance between modern rhythms & expressions with the traditional ancestral elements of Jephté's Afro-Hatian-Latin heritage. A musical ambassador for the spiritual messages of both the Haitian revolution-reconstruction & the New York diaspora of today, Jephté embodies in his music the body & soul of Haiti - his songs, all sung in Haitian Kreyol, often take the form of incantations to a superior being (The Prayer) & renew the ancient beliefs of Vodou. This album is a concept album in its theme & structure, awashed in images of displacement, travel & the search for unity and spiritual fufillment. Jephté's songs offer prayers, ask for spiritual guidance from the elders, challenge the madness of oppression & misery, and offer the hope embodied in images of home, family, country & liberation. But anchoring almost all of this is the persistant beat - the groove - to inspire dance. The most powerful influence of Vodou on Jephté's music is the realization that the most profound questions & the most soul-wrenching quests need not be divorced from the joy of dancing. In a world where almost everyone seems to be in motion, where everyone seems to be a migrant or a traveller, and where families are seperated by oceans, Jephté's quest may just be our own....

Tracks:

Si tu voulais
A l'aime
The Nightingale and the Rose
When I Have Sung My Songs
When I Have Sung My Songs
Ave Maria
On Wings Of Dreams
Ave Maria
Plaisir d'amour
Jeune fillette
Beau soir
Bonjour, Suzon
La chevelure
Carmen-Carmela
El Mirar de la Maja
La partida
La Molinara: Nel cor piu non mi sento
Star vicino
'A Vucchella
Ideale
Marechiare
Fa la nana, bambin
Dicitencello vuje
Could I

Tracks:

Amadis: Bois espais
Rosemonde
Guitares et mandolines
From: 'Poem de l'amour et de la mer': Le temps des Lilas
Von ewiger Liebe, Op 43 No. 1
Mir traumte von einem Konigskind, Op. 4 No. 5
Erlkonig, Op. I
In questa tomba oscura
Rispetto
O del mio amato ben
Aprile
Amuri, amuri
I battitori di grano
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
The Night Wind
Homing
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Introduction And Announcement Of Lully's - 'Bois epais'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Persico's - 'Rosemonde'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Saint-Saens's - 'Guitares et mandolines'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Brahms's - 'Von ewiger Liebe'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Trunk's Mir - 'traumte von einem Konigskind'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Schubert's - 'Erlkonig'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Beethoven's - 'In questa tomba oscura'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Wolf-Ferrari's - 'Rispetto'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments ON Donaudy's - 'O del amato ben'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Tosti's - 'Aprile'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Sadero's - 'Amuri, amuri'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Sadero's - 'I battitori di grano'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On - 'Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On Farley's - 'The Night Wind'
Interview With Ruby Mercer: Comments On de Riego's - 'Homing And Concluding Remarks'

Tracks:

Le nozze di Figaro: Voi che sapete
Tre giorni son che Nina
An die Musik, Op. 88 No. 4
Der Tod und das Madchen, Op. 7 No. 3
Traume, No. 5 From ' Wesendonck Lieder'
Morgen!, Op. 27 No. 4
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, Op. 6 No. 6
L'invitation au voyage
Psyche
Tristesse eternelle
From 'Seven Popular Spanish Songs': Asturiana, No. 3
From 'Seven Popular Spanish Songs': Nana, No. 5
My Lovely Celia
In The Luxembourg Gardens
Angus Dei
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Se
Colombetta

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Legendary soprano Rosa Ponselle recalled these sessions taped by RCA in her Baltimore home as the only time she enjoyed making records. Fourteen years after her abrupt retirement from opera, her voluptuous instrument (ruby red in the '39 Victors and now tinged with purple) soars to better advantage in the amplitude of her spacious music room than within the cramped confines of the recording studio. Whether in Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Mozart, or Tosti songs, or chestnuts like "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes," the vocalism is always informed by Ponselle's musical intelligence and sense of style. Romophone brings together all the material from these home sessions, including 75 minutes of music not issued by RCA, plus a promotional interview that reveals a warm, down-to-earth persona quite different from your typical diva stereotype. Ponselle fans need no encouragement to acquire this set. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

Revealing.......2004-12-28

It must be remembered when approaching these recordings that we are not hearing the Ponselle of the Met singing her great roles, we are hearing the Ponselle of retirement, and a long retirement. She seems to have left her career right at its height, and for whatever reasons. She was not idle, but was active in the world of opera in other ways (including working with many now famous singers when they were students: Sherryl Milnes, Beverly Sills just to name two). She approached her music with the vibrancy of her time, which is often at odds with how we would sing such things today (the Mozart aria for Cherubino for example). However, even though we hear a voice that has now started to show wear, not from oversinging, but rather from not being used all that often and from age, we are not listening to someone who has "lost it all." Everything that made her great is still there for us to enjoy and wish we could experience. Her range is no longer seamless as it was during her active singing career (a thing she was noted for), but her legato is a wonder to behold, as it was during her most active singing years. It is no wonder that singing teacher tell students to listen to her recordings to learn what legato is all about (and as a result, Ponselle is one of the most immitated singers in history, but at no time has anyone ever captured her sound, her quality, her depth of tone, her ring, her anything; people may try to immitate the essence of her singing by copying what they hear -- even the great Maria Callas' interpretations in La Vesta sound like haunting echos of Ponselle -- but what was the depth of her interpretations or of her voice no one has ever come close to matching). Her chest notes are raw at times, but they do not ruin the music in any way. Her top notes (which always put terror into her heart, but for the life of me, after listening to all her recordings available, I cannot figure out why -- even after reading her story of why the High C in Aida scared her so much --- her high notes were extremely secure, even a high D flat in the trovatore arias, no strain is evident at any time, not ever!), well, her top notes are at time frayed and not centered as they were. Still, once again, that is not a bother. It is evident that at times she has to "work rather noticeably" to produce her top notes, but there again, we are not offended by what we hear.

What we do experience, and mostly because we have no arias from her great roles to listen to, is the Ponselle way with a song. She just seemed to embrace a song and make it her own. Her interpretation may be enjoyable to you, you may find other singers you like better, but her interpretation is NEVER common and without validity. Each piece is truly her own stamped completely with her emotional and vocal understanding of the text and the music.

That brings me to the diction part of the recording. Her RRRRRR (rolled R, or tongue trill by some) is very pronounced and now days may be seen as tasteless. However, it was the way things were sung then, and not just in Italian (even English actors rolled their R's beyond belief at that time). Personally, the well pronouced rolled R has never bothered me whatever, and in a way, I expect to hear it when singers are singing opera. It is so played down now days, one is sometimes completely unaware an R was even said. Ponselle's diction is incredible, and I don't just say that. Each and every word is completely understandable, even in English (which is crystle clear). It seems that was a common trait back in her day, for in many recordings of that time and earlier that I have the singers are exceptionally clear with their diction (even the Met manager, former singer, Edward Johnson is so clear while singing English -- a collection of Canadian songs -- one is stunned that the poor recordings quality didn't just eat up the words). Perhaps such singers as Renee Flemming and all the other greats of today should play some Ponselle recordings and learn what diction is all about.

These recordings, though made long after her retirement, are still a great testiment as to what she was like as a singer, for they give us all the greatness that was hers. It makes people like me, who were born after she retired (though quite a while before she died, as I remember her well on live from the met broadcasts on the radio Saturday afternoons) wish we could go back in time and hear some real singing.

In addition to the music, we have some interviews with Ruby Mercer, which are a real delight to listen to. No wonder people like Sills have nothing but great memories working with Ponselle. She is truly well grounded. She knows her contribution to the world of music for exactly what it is. There is no false modesty, nor is there any "high mindedness about self." We have a very down to earth person talking about things, even why she chose some of the music she did, in a very down to earth way.

I recommend the set to anyone who loves to hear great singing, even if it would have more appeal to collectors than average people. It is well recorded, and the sound is excellent. It is a treasure to have on any record shelf.

Villa Pace Recordings.......2003-05-15

This recording is a must for anyone who loves to hear art songs sung incredibly. Aside from Rosa Ponselle's voice being arguably one of the most beatiful, distictive, incredible sounding voices (so big that it was troublesome to record), the fact that she is also one of the greatest vocal artists in the world is also evident. Although most of the songs were recoreded when her voice wasn't as capable of stunning high high C's (there wasn't any Aida aria's on this one), her musicality, ability to act with her voice, and her use of language is breath-taking. Especially nice, is her french, it's so clear and clean, yet doesn't sound constricted or bothersome. The best track is the second lower version of "When I have sung my Songs". It is truly phenomenal, and her singing of this piece is a true testament to what this woman was capable of. Also her "o del mio amato ben" some of the most dramatically genuine singing I 've heard. Buy this CD if you want to hear some real singing and one of the greatest voices of the 20th century.

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An EMI house conductor with a devoted cult following
Great Conductors of 20th Century= Best Reissues of the 21st

Paul Kletzki

Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

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Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Rudolf Kempe

ASIN: B00006IGIR
Release Date: 2003-02-11

Tracks:

Benvenuto Cellini: Overture - Philharmonia Orchestra
I. Andante - Allegro Con Anima - Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
II. Andante Cantabile, Con Alcuna Licenza - Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
III. Valse. Allegro Moderato - Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
IV. Finale. Andante Maestoso - Allegro Vivace - Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
No. 5: Entr'Acte Nach Dem 3. Aufzug - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
In D Major, Op46 No.6 - Paul Kletzki
In C Minor, Op.46 No.7 - Paul Kletzki
In C Major, Op.72 No.7 - Paul Kletzki

Tracks:

Ouverture 'Meeresstille Und Gluckliche Fahrt', Op.27 - Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
I. Allegro Non Troppo - Paul Kletzki
II. Andante Moderato - Paul Kletzki
III. Allegro Giocoso - Poco Meno Presto - Tempo I - Paul Kletzki
IV. Allegro Energico E Passionato - Piu Allegro - Paul Kletzki
No.5: Traume - Hugh Bean
Capriccio Italien, Op.45 - Philharmonia Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

An EMI house conductor with a devoted cult following.......2005-11-22

Sometimes one feels that the Great Conductors series is just a convenient way for EMI to push recordings that otherwise wouldn't sell. I don't think there's much market for these performances from the Polish-born, Swiss-naturalized Paul Kletzki. When he died in 1973 Kletzki had had a strong career as a perennial guest condcutor around Europe--he appears on these two CDs with five different orchestras from London to Prague. Kletzki made lots of records for EMI, but none that I've heard really rose to any level of inspiration.

In fact, I would rate this set as one of the poorer compilations in the whole series. The big works here are a live Tchaikovsky Fifth with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra (stereo, 1967) and a less well recorded Brahms Fourth with the Czech Phil. (stereo, 1965). Neither strikes me as anything but ordinary, or worth salvaging, really, despite their honest, sober ways. Neither orchestra sounds at its best. Nor are the minor works, such as a cautious Benevenuto Cellini Over. and a decent enough Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Happy Voyage Over., anything notable.

The happiest item is the Capriccio Italien that wraps up CD 2, a 1958 studio recording with the Philharmonia. It is fresh and lively, without a trace of bombast or fakery. I liked it better than anything else here, but one bright performance can't save the dullness of the rest. Overall, this is a perfect set to keep around in case somebody claims that Kletzki was great just becasue his records are out of print.

Great Conductors of 20th Century= Best Reissues of the 21st.......2003-03-29

It's sad that the "Great Conductors of the 20th Century" reissue series has not gotten more notice on Amazon and in other places, because it has my vote for the best reissue program thus far of the 21st Century. Drawing from the archives of all the major classical labels (EMI, Sony, BMG, DG, Decca, Philips, Supraphon, etc.), EMI and IMG Artists have assembled a wonderful series of affordable two-disc sets by the leading conductors of the last century. And unlike its counterpart, "The Great Pianists of the 20th Century," which are basically compilations of material already available on other CDs, the "Great Conductors" features rare and, for the most part, previously unreleased performances!

This particular CD, Volume 20, features the great Paul Kletzki, a conductor who is woefully underrepresented on CD at the present time. (His wonderful recordings of Sibelius, Prokofiev, Beethoven, and others are currently unavailable -- in fact the only decent recordings of his that are in print is the Chopin Piano Concerto with Pollini, and only a couple of Mahler discs!) As the track information is not abundantly clear above, allow me to mention that these two discs feature memorable stereo performances of Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony and Capriccio Italien, Brahms' 4th Symphony, 3 of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, an excerpt from Schubert's ballet "Rosamunde," and a Wagner song. There are also two mono performances from the early 50s --Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini" Overture and Mendelssohn's "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" Overture. Kletzki, who was probably best associated with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic, also performs here with Bavarian RSO, Royal Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, and Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise.

Whether you are a serious collector of classical music or a beginner, the "Great Conductors of the 20th Century" has something for everyone. If the prized, rare performances previously unreleased on CD (or ever!) doesn't excite you, then use this as an opportunity to check out one of the greatest conductors ever recorded. Chances are, since stores are offering increasingly homogenized classical music sections, this conductor isn't even in your collection. And that would truly be a shame.

Voyage of Dreams
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Voyage of Dreams
Jephte Guillaume
Manufacturer: Spiritual Life Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006IU6L
Release Date: 2002-10-29

Tracks:

Across The Sea
Prayer
Ibo Leie
Go Tell Them
Go Tell Them
Daughter Of The Sun
Tribute To Ernie
Dwet Djaz Fredo
Courtyard
Rara Shout Outs
Where Are The People
Kote Moun Yo (Where Are The People)
Pouki (Why)
Voyage Of Dreams

Album Description

"Voyage Of Dreams", produced by Jephté Guillaume, provides a delicate balance between modern rhythms & expressions with the traditional ancestral elements of Jephté's Afro-Hatian-Latin heritage. A musical ambassador for the spiritual messages of both the Haitian revolution-reconstruction & the New York diaspora of today, Jephté embodies in his music the body & soul of Haiti - his songs, all sung in Haitian Kreyol, often take the form of incantations to a superior being (The Prayer) & renew the ancient beliefs of Vodou. This album is a concept album in its theme & structure, awashed in images of displacement, travel & the search for unity and spiritual fufillment. Jephté's songs offer prayers, ask for spiritual guidance from the elders, challenge the madness of oppression & misery, and offer the hope embodied in images of home, family, country & liberation. But anchoring almost all of this is the persistant beat - the groove - to inspire dance. The most powerful influence of Vodou on Jephté's music is the realization that the most profound questions & the most soul-wrenching quests need not be divorced from the joy of dancing. In a world where almost everyone seems to be in motion, where everyone seems to be a migrant or a traveller, and where families are seperated by oceans, Jephté's quest may just be our own....

Album Details

"voyage of Dreams", Produced by Jephte Guillaume, Provides a Delicate Balance Between Modern Rhythms and Expressions with the Traditional Ancestral Elements of Jephte's Afro-haitian-latin Heritage.

Communing With Music: Practicing the Art of Conscious Listening

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Communing With Music: Practicing the Art of Conscious Listening

Manufacturer: Summit(Classical)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009MAPJK
Release Date: 2005-07-05

Tracks:

Voyage
Andantino, Vivace Eleggiero From Sonata For Clarinet And Piano
Reverie From Two Pieces For Guitar And Violin
Allegro Giocoso From Oboe Concerto
Etudes Tableaux, D Minor Op.39
Pavanne
Simple Lives
A Day In The Forest Of Dreams From First Glimses Of Sunlight
Adagio From Symphony No.4

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ASIN: B0000564KE
Release Date: 2004-01-20

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Rock Dreams/Voyage
Brian Bennett
Manufacturer: See for Miles
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000011DD
Release Date: 1997-12-24

Tracks:

Rock Dreams (Introduction)
Rock And Roll Dreamer
Banja Booga
Rave On
Milwaukee Massacre
Cmon Everybody
Thunderbolt
Saturday Night Special
The Girls Back Home
Wallop
Farewell To A Friend
Drum Odyssey
Rock Dreams
Voyage
Solstice
Chain Reaction
Pendulum Force
Air Quake
Ocean Glide

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Voyage of a Thousand Dreams

Manufacturer: Karmina
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CAJE00
Release Date: 2004-06-29

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Great CDs!

Voyage on the River of Dreams
Billy Joel
Manufacturer: Tristar
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000020CQ
Release Date: 1996-05-07

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Great CDs!.......1998-08-10

This set contains "The River of Dreams" CD, "Billy Joel Live - from the River of Drams Tour", and "An Evening of Questions and Answers with Billy Joel". Even for those of you who already Have "The River of Dreams" the other two CDs make this purchase well worth it. Billy Plays a Beatles song, along with many of his own on the Live CD, and the evening of questions and answers is great!!

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Voodoo House Rules!

Voyage of Dreams
Jephté Guillaume
Manufacturer: Music Club
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00001ZTMB
Release Date: 2004-10-28

Tracks:

Lo (Across the Sea)
Priy (The Prayer)
Ibo Lele
Al Di Yo (Interlude) (Go Tell Them)
Al Di Yo (Go Tell Them)
Kanpe (Get Up)
Pitit Sol(Daughter of the Sun)
Tribute to Ernie (Ochan Pou Ti-N

Tracks:

Fredo's Jazzy Fingers (DwDjaz Fredo)
Lakou-A (The Courtyard)
Li LIt's Time)
Rara Shout Outs
Kote Moun Yo (Where Are the People)
Kote Moun Yo (Where Are the People)
Pouki (Why)
Voyage of Dreams

Album Details

Invariably When People Talk About Soul Music It's Not Long Before the Subject of the O'jay's Arises. Still Going Strong in 2004 after Four Decades in the Business, this Vocal Group Know What their Doing. Gathered Here Are Many of their Finest Recordings from a Truly Illustrious Career.

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Voodoo House Rules!.......2001-04-10

Beginning with the release of club classics "The Prayer" and "Lakou-A" in 1996, Jephte Guillaume has made his presence known in the House and world music communities. This double-CD (also pressed on triple-vinyl!), originally released in 1998, collects all of Jephte's 12" singles for Spiritual Life Music, along with 11 other tracks, running the spectrum from Vodou-influenced Haitian roots rhythms, straight-up house beats, Brazilian samba and jazz-funk. There's not a bad cut on the album!

Jephte was instrumental in establishing both Spiritual Life Music (the label owned by DJ/Producer/Remixer Joaquin "Joe" Claussell), as well as the "Body & Soul" sound, a deep mix of worldbeat, Garage, disco, House, Jazz and Soul which has become identified with the New York Sunday evening party of the same name. Jephte's performance with the Tet Kale Orkestra at 1999's Body & Soul party in Central Park was one of the musical highlights of the summer.

This album represents the best of deep house and world-influenced dance music over the past 5 years. Already hailed as a classic the world over. Don't sleep!

Jephte continues the vibe with the upcoming release of material on his new label, Tet Kale Records, and the (world) beat goes on!

Rock Dreams/Voyage Plus
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Rock Dreams/Voyage Plus
Brian Bennett
Manufacturer: See For Miles Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00000E81K
Release Date: 1997-12-09

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