{"id":41802,"date":"2019-04-25T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/kassavs-legendary-debut-album-reissued-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:42:50","slug":"kassavs-legendary-debut-album-reissued-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/kassavs-legendary-debut-album-reissued-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Kassav&#8217;s legendary debut album reissued for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24313 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-cover-PAM.jpg\" alt=\"Kassav \" width=\"1717\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-cover-PAM.jpg 1717w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-cover-PAM-759x416.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-cover-PAM-1010x553.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-cover-PAM-1440x788.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-cover-PAM-661x362.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-cover-PAM-465x255.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-cover-PAM-375x205.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #eb5757;\">Released 40 years ago, <em>Love and Ka Dance<\/em> marked the beginning of one of the greatest adventures in French music, establishing the band as a global phenomenon.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go back to 1979. The Kassav\u2019 adventure starts when Pierre-Edouard Decimus, musician and founder of the group Les Vikings de la Guadeloupe met Freddy Marshall. Inspired by the funk and disco broadcasted by radios all over the caribbean islands and driven by the ambition to reshape local music\u00a0they decided to create a caribbean music anchored in tradition but open to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled\u00a0<i>Love and Ka Dance, <\/i>Kassav&#8217;s<i> <\/i>debut\u00a0album was recorded in 1979 in Paris with some of the best musicians and the famous bassist Jacob Desvarieux. <em>Love and Ka Dance is a<\/em>\u00a0groundbreaking album which marks the modernization of Guadeloupean music, giving birth\u00a0to the\u00a0zouk\u00a0genre.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tkSGjB-bxZQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Too funky for the Western islands and not disco enough for the metropolitan public, the record will struggle to find its audience. Released by the US label Chancy Records who for the occasion asked that three new songs be recorded to make the album more disco, in order to seduce the American public.<\/p>\n<p>Remastered by Heavenly Sweetness, this reissue gathers for the first time the original version and the 4 tracks from the US version.<\/p>\n<p><i>Love and Ka Dance <\/i>is set to be released on May 10th via Heavenly Sweetness. You can pre-order<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> the album <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/idol.lnk.to\/Love_and_Ka_Dance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #eb5757;\">Read next:\u00a0Reggae, <a style=\"color: #eb5757;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/reggae-riots-and-resistance-the-sounds-of-black-britain-in-1981\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">riots and resistance: the sounds of Black Britain in 1981<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24309\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance.jpg\" alt=\"Kassav Love and ka dance\" width=\"3000\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kassav-Love-and-ka-dance-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released 40 years ago, Love and Ka Dance marked the beginning of one of the greatest adventures in French music, establishing the band as a global phenomenon. 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