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Pati

    Pati

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    Léssé Mwen Viv Pa Ben Mwen Gaz

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    Caz A Zouk

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    Trip

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    Dlo Koulé

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    Rapé Zouké

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Pati LP

Zouk Station

Disques Equateur, France ???

VG+/VG-

Product #1207

€129.98

Zouk's not dead! There is still fruit to be plucked from the zouk tree, figuratively speaking, and here is a prime example. The Pati long player was released on French diaspora label Disques Equateur who also released the L'Innovateur Djoe Ahmed Et Le Zoukabyle album Le Solitaire. In my own taxonomy I call added this release in the Tropical (obviously) genre but also House. Listen to the clip from "Caz A Zouk" or even, a little more abstractly defined "Rapé Zouké".

"Dlo Koulé" is the low-tide, mellow standout of the Pati. I hear similarities with French Guianese group "Azik-Ka". Both have an aching, longing quality with a sound both traditional yet modern-facing. I love a male-female call-and-response, featured in both. Load google, use quotes, use boolean operators.. the results are extremely sparse. You and me ain't seeing many (any?) copies of this for a good long time. Buy with confidence.


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