Wapa Sakitanou Discography of CDs

Wapa Sakitanou music CDs Track Listing of songs: Frape Tig-Bang; Domino; Louise O!; Change La Mi Mwen; Dou Man Man; Ede Yo; Milo Caserus; Zebi Letranje; Roule Quebec; Bouwo; Mesi Bon Die; Di Fe Ka Lime; Marie O; Belya Pour Quebec; ...

Wapa Sakitanou discography An album of Martiniquean music from the cultural troupe Wapa Sakitanou, possibly based in Quebec of all places. The songs are all remarkably similar to one another, employing a very basic call and response for the duration of each one. Moreover, the response is always a single word or shout from the chorus which never changes throughout the songs. The lead singers (the callers here) do a decent job of mixing up the sounds and lyrics to keep listeners on their toes a bit, but it invariably returns to the same response regardless of what they do. Perhaps a more important feature of the music is the percussion powering it and acting as the sole instrumental aspect of the music. The bele drum is the main driving force holding up the music with a quick pounding rhythm. The other instrument is the ti-bwa, a bamboo ...