Boukman Eksperyans

Boukman Eksperyans announce their radicalism within their name, an allusion to Boukman the slave who initiated the island’s 1804 self-reliance uprising. Always conscious that independence and culture move together, this ten-member music group sing in the sporadically outlawed creole tongue and mix African spiritual motifs and road slang right into a outrageous, syncretic special event of Haitian voodoo lifestyle. To sing out therefore boldly in Haiti, nevertheless, is to request repression; even though the band’s “Moist Chenn” (Take away the Stores) won initial place within a 1989 musical competition, their 1992 admittance was banned. Within an environment torn aside with armed service unrest and governmental crackdowns, Boukman Eksperyans are seen as a radical threat. Therefore, their 1990 track, “Kem Pa Sote” was prohibited from Haitian airwaves. 1991’s Vodou Adjae was the 1st Boukman Eksperyans recording released in the U.S.; following offerings consist of 1992’s Kalfou Dangare, 1995’s Libete/Independence (Let’s Consider It!) and 1999’s Live at Crimson Stones. Kanaval Rasin-Vodou Adja adopted in middle-2000.