{"id":41983,"date":"2019-02-15T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/jerico-merges-experimental-baile-funk-with-haitian-creole-in-new-single-zanmi\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:36:20","slug":"jerico-merges-experimental-baile-funk-with-haitian-creole-in-new-single-zanmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/jerico-merges-experimental-baile-funk-with-haitian-creole-in-new-single-zanmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerico merges experimental baile funk with Haitian Creole in new single \u2018Zanmi\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21205 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jerico-Moonshine-Zanmi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jerico-Moonshine-Zanmi.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jerico-Moonshine-Zanmi-759x543.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jerico-Moonshine-Zanmi-661x473.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jerico-Moonshine-Zanmi-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jerico-Moonshine-Zanmi-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Newly recruited in Canadian collective <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/tag\/moonshine\/\">Moonshine<\/a><\/span>, the artist unveils the first\u00a0single of his forthcoming EP\u00a0<em>Run That<\/em>\u00a0to be released on March 8th.<\/h4>\n<p>23-year-old Haitian-Canadian Jerico is a DJ, producer, and vocalist, who\u2019s being recognized as one of Montreal\u2019s most promising young artists.\u00a0He blends\u00a0Pan-African rhythms\u00a0with underground Electronic music and Haitian Creole vocals in an unique dancefloor-oriented combination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZanmi\u201d, which means \u2018friend\u2019 in Haitian Creole, is the result of what Jerico calls the happiest time of his life. The track\u00a0is an explosive mix of\u00a0deconstructed Baile Funk and Dancehall\u00a0with MC-like vocals sung by himself. The warm syncopated drums nicely balance the sharp digital synth riff.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/575459994&amp;color=%2364748c&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe track serves as a prelude to his EP\u00a0<em>Run That<\/em>, featuring four tracks drawing on Jerico\u2019s vivid memories of Kompa dancing as a kid growing up in the suburbs of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Run That\u00a0<\/em>will be out on\u00a0Moonshine on March 8th.\u00a0Pre-order it on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/jericojerico.bandcamp.com\/album\/run-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to\u00a0\u201cZanmi\u201d in our Afro Clup Exp. playlist on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/38btMIbD4lYEsPbMrN9Bjz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deezer.com\/playlist\/3244743002?app_id=105611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Read Next: <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/pierre-kwenders-we-are-family\/\">Pierre Kwenders: we are family<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21207\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zanmi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zanmi.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zanmi-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zanmi-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zanmi-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zanmi-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zanmi-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zanmi-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly recruited in Canadian collective Moonshine, the artist unveils the first\u00a0single of his forthcoming EP\u00a0Run That\u00a0to be released on March 8th. 23-year-old Haitian-Canadian Jerico is a DJ, producer, and vocalist, who\u2019s being recognized as one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[5592,6361,6366],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41983"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41983"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41983"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}