{"id":42328,"date":"2018-06-07T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T09:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/jowee-omicil-unveils-mende-lolo-new-music-video\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:29","slug":"jowee-omicil-unveils-mende-lolo-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/jowee-omicil-unveils-mende-lolo-new-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Jowee Omicil unveils &#8216;Mend\u00e9 Lolo&#8217; new music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pam-featured-content\"  style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8vgaHVl5Fzs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Jazz is coming from Africa&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Native of Montreal, Canada, and deeply rooted in the island of Haiti, Jowee Omicil is back with a new album, <em>Love Matters<\/em>. Discover today a first excerpt, his new music video titled\u00a0&#8220;Mend\u00e9 Lolo&#8221;, exclusively on PAM.<\/p>\n<p>For Jowee, this track is a conversation between the Motherland and\u00a0his birthplace : <em>&#8220;Lolo the piccolo flute is the guru of Love while the bass is Africa. So the question is the Bass line and the answer is the Flute melody. Meanwhile there&#8217;s conversation going on with the other Percussions (piano, Rhodes &amp; drums). Again it&#8217;s a Love story where Haitians ancestor from Guinea (Balla Mussa\u00b0 me as a kid) is spreading love bracelets at a young age. The Journey ends with Jowee being Balla Moussa &amp; only Love and the Sun remains.The groove is influenced by early 70th Hugh Masekela pockets.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jowee Omicil speaks many languages and plays just as many instruments \u2013 but prefers the saxophone. A son of Haitian emigrants, he grew up in Montreal. He started playing the sax at the church where his father was a minister, before studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, then moving to New York to launch his musical career \u2013 and, at times, confer with Ornette Coleman or accompany Roy Hargrove as part of the band RH Factor. He then lived in Haiti and Panama and settled in Paris a couple of years ago after signing with the Jazz Village label. Although \u2018settled\u2019 is perhaps not the best term to describe him. Retracing Jowee Omicil\u2019s steps precisely would have required a satnav.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/seun-kuti-interview-black-times-part-1\/\">Seun Kuti Talks About Activism and What Inspired His New Album, Black Times<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14958\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/JoweeOmicil_%C2%A9RenaudMontfourny_891-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/JoweeOmicil_%C2%A9RenaudMontfourny_891-2.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/JoweeOmicil_%C2%A9RenaudMontfourny_891-2-759x506.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/JoweeOmicil_%C2%A9RenaudMontfourny_891-2-1010x673.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/JoweeOmicil_%C2%A9RenaudMontfourny_891-2-661x441.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/JoweeOmicil_%C2%A9RenaudMontfourny_891-2-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/JoweeOmicil_%C2%A9RenaudMontfourny_891-2-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jazz is coming from Africa&#8221; Native of Montreal, Canada, and deeply rooted in the island of Haiti, Jowee Omicil is back with a new album, Love Matters. 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