After Ciaran, listen to the wind roar in songs, and explore the culture of disaster and resilience of French speakers accustomed to cyclones, in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean.
In 1995, almost ten years after Cyclone Hugo which ravaged Guadeloupe, Thomas Fersen recorded this song, which says “Hugo lifted the island dress”. This idea of the outrage done by meteorology to an island personified by a woman, we already found in a song by a Guadeloupean group, Experience 7, which used the French language, more solemn than Creole, to invite Guadeloupe to get a makeover after Cyclone Hugo.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:
Thomas Fersen, Hugo, the song of the cyclone, 1995
Experiment 7, Be beautiful, 1989
DPExpress, David, 1979
Larose and Missile 727, Cyclone Iris, 1996
Pat’ Jaunes, Cyclone, 2008
Jacqueline Farreyrol, The cyclone, 1979
Arthur H, In the mane of the cyclone, 2012
Mickey 3D, Storm, 2001
Larose and Missile 727, Cyclone Iris, 1996
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