{"id":103171,"date":"2022-03-31T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=103171"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:53:26","slug":"a-ka-titine-gaoule-mizik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/a-ka-titine-gaoule-mizik\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Ka Titine&#8221;, a classic reedition from Gaoul\u00e9 Mizik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The London-based label Beauty &amp; the Beat reissues a cult Guadeloupean gwoka track by Gaoul\u00e9 Mizik. PAM shares an exclusive remix by Kay Suzuki.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Time Capsule curators Cedric Woo and Kay Suzuki recently spoke with sharp pan-African selections on our <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/pam-club-cedric-woo\/\">PAM Club<\/a> series and <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/panafricanmusic\/pam-sound-system-ep43-kay-suzuki\">PAM Sound System<\/a> radio show. A few weeks after the release of the compilation <em>L\u00e9spri Ka<\/em>, the two teamed up again to reissue three tracks led by legendary singer Michel Laurent, for the label Beauty &amp; the Beat. &#8220;A Ka Titine&#8221; has become a classic of the parties of the same name that have been rocking London for the past fifteen years. It is a pure Guadeloupean gwoka track, sung in Creole, which relates Michel&#8217;s island life on a toumblak rhythm, one of the seven distinct rhythms of the genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Gaoul\u00e9 Mizik - A Ka Titine (Kay Suzuki Gwoka Dub)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/anpwG5oBTGc?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Gaoul\u00e9 Mizik &#8211; A Ka Titine (Kay Suzuki Gwoka Dub)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Played with drums of different sizes called &#8220;ka&#8221;, the gwoka sound inherited from slavery represents not only a singular style but also the identity of an island. If the gwoka sound adapts to the occasion &#8211; be it a baptism, carnival or funeral rites &#8211; the song in question here breathes love and joy in a rather traditional spirit, even if Gaoul\u00e9 Mizik was known to experiment. By releasing two cult albums in the 80&#8217;s, the group was part of a modern gwoka movement open to fusion, in the same spirit of Erick Cosaque or Edmony Krater. To echo this, the Japanese-born Kay Suzuki brings an afro-cosmic dub touch on a hybrid remix made for clubs, maintaining respect for the original. Note that the EP also includes the tracks &#8220;Kan Siz\u00e8 Sonn\u00e9&#8221; (slightly edited by Cedric Woo), and &#8220;A Kolad&#8221;, two tracks released at the same time under the name of Michel Laurent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/beautyandthebeat1.bandcamp.com\/album\/excursions-in-gwoka-vol-1-batb-005\" target=\"_blank\">EP<\/a> will be available May 7th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BATB005_FRONT_qrates.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BATB005_FRONT_qrates.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BATB005_FRONT_qrates-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BATB005_FRONT_qrates-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BATB005_FRONT_qrates-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BATB005_FRONT_qrates-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BATB005_FRONT_qrates-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BATB005_FRONT_qrates-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BATB005_FRONT_qrates-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The London-based label Beauty &amp; the Beat reissues a cult Guadeloupean gwoka track by Gaoul\u00e9 Mizik. PAM shares an exclusive remix by Kay Suzuki. Time Capsule curators Cedric Woo and Kay Suzuki recently spoke with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":103056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[39351],"location":[8004],"yst_prominent_words":[8993,8435,20194,9209],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103171"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=103171"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=103171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}