Let us welcome this new EP from Waahli as the promise of a new solo album, but let us regret at the same time that he did not present an entire album made of these grooves fusing Creole funk, reggae and hip-hop: out of four songs, two of them qualify as bombs. Once the introduction is over — a tribute to the veteran host of Sleepless night (at 102.3 FM) —, Waahli dives into reggae with a classic one drop rhythm titled Bom Pase. The temperature rises suddenly with VIth Alefamous groove funk-disco of the kind that Tabou Combo served us at the time of Superstars (1978). Similar effect on Slide to slide which follows, the text celebrating the solidarity of the people of the Haitian diaspora, the orchestrations of flute and brass giving this old-fashioned character to the rhythm between rap and disco. More circumspect, Wind, at the end of this mini-album co-produced by Nomadic Massive’s old accomplice Lou Piensa, brings Waahli back to his boom-bap loves. Too short, all that!
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