{"id":68840,"date":"2020-03-28T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/pam-club-1-franck-descollonges\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:57:58","slug":"pam-club-1-franck-descollonges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/pam-club-1-franck-descollonges\/","title":{"rendered":"PAM Club: biguine and creole jazz, a mix by Franck Descollonges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every Saturday, PAM Club brings beats to your home through mixes by its DJ friends: Franck Descollonges, from the Heavenly Sweetness label, is first up behind the decks with a selection of Biguine and Creole jazz.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI discovered West Indian music through jazz and biguine. I found several biguine records in second-hand shops, each time attracted by covers that were both a reference to jazz but with a Caribbean touch. And that’s exactly what I liked about this music, jazz sounds, close to \u2019New Orleans\u2019 but with rhythms, melodies, songs that are purely West Indian, which gives this style a timeless feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes this music has a folkloric image, a little naive, even outdated, whereas on the contrary it is very rich, requires dexterity and talent from the musicians and represents part of the foundations of West Indian music. It remains astonishingly modern to me, even though its birth can be traced back to before the end of slavery and some claim that it gave birth to jazz. Vast debate. A music to (re) discover thanks to this mix, which is obviously not exhaustive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the label’s West Indian compilations, I have no idea whether the titles selected were hits and are known by the public (apart from \u201cBan moin en ti bo\u201d obviously). The selection was made according to purely personal criteria. The songs I liked, period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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