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5.0 (based on 9 reviews)

Like Senegalese mbalax and Zairean rumba, Antillean zouk has its schlocky tendencies--singing in Creole doesn't get all the French out of your system. So Celluloid's two U.S. Kassav' LPs, both from the early '80s, feature synthesizers and fancy horns and ladies going duh-do-do-do as well as hot polyrhythms and soul/calypso/rumba horns and the occasional catchy theme...
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What this accomplished display of pop production values proves is that they're big in France because they speak French. With keyb hooks and basslines mixed way up, most of the tracks jump you like the radio. But the pretty-to-gritty voices have nothing intelligible to say to Anglos--nothing to grab the market share they have such designs on. And with average track length under four minutes, the groove ejaculates prematurely almost every time.
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It's no more filler-proof than any other disco album, and though the production has gained depth, zouk didn't develop its studio rep because the brothers Decimus laid off the special effects. Nevertheless, this major-label debut is the latest, the longest and the easiest to find LP from the guys who invented world dance music. Probably the cheapest, too. But if you run across Kassav' #5 at a discount, go for it.
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Though the sound Kassav evolved back in the early '80s has become a tad predictable, this remains one of the great show bands, with an affable powerhouse funk that can still make furniture dance. For sheer verve and exuberance this is a dandy, recycled hits and all.
- music.aol.com
This is precisely the sound that made zouk so influential -- a modified Haitian beat, Stevie Wonder-style keyboards, and heaps of traditional gwo ka percussion -- surprising when you consider the techno-monster the style has become. Includes two songs from Oh Madiana.
- music.aol.com
Majestik Zouk was Kassav's second release on the Columbia label. The first release on this label, Vini Pou, was ironically one of their weaker efforts. Possibly in reaction to the tepid response to the first album on an American major label, Kassav fired up the zouk machine and came out with this album of strong and varied material. The opening track by Jean-Philippe Marthely burns things up with its high wattage merengue-tinged rhythm...
- music.aol.com
Despite its originality and verve, Kassav could at times verge on the overslick, with a taste for gimmicks and semidigested U.S. funk typical of any pickup group of session-men (which is how they began life). These tend to be studio-oriented faults, and so it's perhaps not surprising that this live 1986 concert recording was among the most genuinely exciting Kassav session of all. Well, perhaps it's surprising, at that: session men often flop on stage. It's pleasing, anyway.
- music.aol.com
An-Ba-Chen'n La is yet another quality Kassav album produced during the zouk explosion of the 1980s. Here we find other members of the group contributing to the songwriting. This is rock-solid zouk, with its foundation in percussion, is termed chire, for hard versus soft as in zouk love. The material is varied and doesn't fall into the cloned sound that eventually infected much of zouk. The young voices of Patrick St. Eloi, Jean-Philippe Marthely, and Jocelyne Beroard are clear and vibrant...
- music.aol.com
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