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West Indies Vintage Funk Vol.2

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Paris DJs Soundsystem – West Indies Vintage Funk Vol.2 (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2013-07-15

Tracklist:
01. Wganda Kenya – El Lobo
(from ‘El Lobo’, 1981 / Disco Fuentes) COLOMBIA
(reissued on ‘Quantic presents Tropical Funk Experience’ compilation, 2009 / Nascente)
02. Les Vikings – Ti Tong Ti Tong
(from ‘Les Vikings’ LP, 1974 / La Voix du Glove) GUADELOUPE
(reissued on ‘Creole Love Calls – Rythmes Latins Des Antilles’ compilation, 2001 / Isma’a)
03. Wild Fire – Check It Out
(from ‘Check It’ LP, 1975 / Charlie’s) TRINIDAD and TOBAGO
(reissued on ‘Hugo Mendez presents Tropical Funk Experience’ compilation, 2009 / Nascente)
04. Biosis Now – Independent Bahamas
(from ‘A Nation Is Born’ compilation, 1974 / Bahamas Nationhood Ltd) BAHAMAS
(reissued on ‘Calypsoul 70: Caribbean Soul and Calypso Crossover 1969-1979’ compilation, 2008 / Strut)
05. Boo and The Tru-Tones – Don’t Blow The Joint
(from ‘Show The World’ album, 197? / SRM-LABS) SAINT LUCIA
(reissued on ‘West Indies Funk 2’ compilation, 2011 / Trans Air)
06. The Revolution Of St. Vincent – The Little You Say
(from ‘The Little You Say’ 7 inch, 1970s / WIRL) SAINT VINCENT
(reissued on ‘The Little You Say’ 7 inch, 2013 / Record Kicks)
07. The Draytons Two – Hush Baby
(from ‘Raw Spouge’ album, 1973 / WIRL) BARBADOS
08. De Briano and The Alonso Wilson Quinteto – Concolon (Calypso Windsor)
(from ‘Concolon (Calypso Windsor) 7 inch, / Windsor Panama Corp.) PANAMA
09. Marius Cultier – Eso Guede
(from ‘The Way’ album, 1976 / Magidisco) MARTINIQUE – Buy on Juno
10. Joe Trouillot – Le Coq Chante
(from ‘Les Hits Des Années 50’ compilation, 2000 / Géronimo Records) HAITI
(reissued on ‘Beginner’s Guide To The Caribbean’ compilation, 2011 / Nascente)
11. Les Aiglons – Ce Rat’ La
(from ‘Ce Rat La’ 7 inch, 1973 / Duli Disc) GUADELOUPE
(reissued on ‘Creole Love Calls – Rythmes Latins Des Antilles’ compilation, 2001 / Isma’a)
12. The Duke Of Iron – Loving Woman Is A Waste Of Time
(from ‘Calypso Carnival’ 10 inch, 1950s / Monogram) TRINIDAD and TOBAGO
13. Tabou Combo De Petion-Ville – Respect
(from ‘Respect…’ album, 1973 / Mini) HAITI
(reissued on Secret Stash Records, 2011)
14. Duke – Freedom In Africa
(from ‘Harps Of Gold’ album, 1980 / Sharc international) TRINIDAD and TOBAGO
(reissued on ‘Calypsoul 70: Caribbean Soul and Calypso Crossover 1969-1979’ compilation, 2008 / Strut)
15. Barel Coppet Et Mister Lof – Jeunesse Vauclin
(from ‘Jeunesse Vauclin’ album, 1972 / Hit Parade) MARTINIQUE
(reissued on ‘Tumbele’ compilation, 2009 / Soundway)
Total time : 51mn 36s

Credits :
Selection by Djouls and Loik from the Paris DJs Soundsystem (parisdjs.com)
Mix and audio mastering by Grant Phabao (grantphabao.com)

Trio Select (Jean Gesner Henri), “Ratt La” on their 1971 album “Haiti – Plein Caille”.

El cuervo, la fosa, y la yegua

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El cuervo, la fosa, y la yegua (The Raven, The Pit, and The Mare), 2021, 16 minutes, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz brings together various forms of non-linear thinking and simultaneous temporalities that challenge traditional ways of reading with El cuervo, la yegua, y la fosa (The Raven, the Pit, and the Mare). Taking as her model a method of Sanskrit poetry that tells two stories in the same text at the same time, Santiago Muñoz explores acts of simultaneous narration to juxtapose images and sounds from seemingly disconnected universes. A madeleine is both a pastry and an idea. Language is historical and abstract. In the “historical now” there is a plastic cup and a robotic arm at the bottom of the ocean. Each day a mare visits a junkyard near an overgrown forest and tries to mate with a Corvette. A traditional Haitian proverb states: the snake can only be measured once it’s dead. Consider things you can’t see but know are real: the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench, the Marassa Jumeaux, our attachments to past orders. 

https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/25th-anniversary/beatriz-santiago-munoz/

A related version as an installation (Cuervo and Low-Polygon Poem, 2021. Two-channel color HD video with sound, 26 minutes.) was featured in Prospect 5: Yesterday we said tomorrow.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s video is an interrogation of place, the Caribbean specifically, as well as the medium of film itself.Projecting onto both a traditional screen and a sheer curtain, Santiago Muñoz’s video combines footage from her native Puerto Rico and a 2020 trip to Haiti to visualize links between these places and New Orleans, which is often referred to as “the northernmost Caribbean city.” The film moves swiftly between documentation, interviews, scientific and computer-generated footage, and ethereal imagery, juxtaposing the everyday with the otherworldly while pointing to the ecological and cultural similarities and divergences among these places. Translation emerges as a mode of differentiation: in Puerto Rico, flour and salt suggest bread, but in Haiti they suggest veves—religious symbols used in various Voodoo practices.

The video is at times obscured by a darkness that comes after nightfall in regions that have experienced widespread power outages, like those that followed Hurricane Maria in 2017 in Puerto Rico—familiar to those who experienced Hurricane Ida in 2021 or Hurricane Katrina in 2005 in New Orleans. Santiago Muñoz also interrogates the medium of film by the other sense central to film: hearing. What does the taste of salt sound like? Is it possible to translate from one sense to another? Is translation between languages (or places, spaces, perspectives) even truly possible, or is it always merely an approximation?

Prospect 5: Yesterday we said tomorrow

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz – Thinking with Places and Objects, on Promise No Promises!

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Promise No Promises!, a podcast, opens a new chapter called Feminisms in the Caribbean. In this episode, curator and writer Sonia Fernández Pan talks with artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz.

Promise No Promises! is a podcasts series produced by the Womxn’s Center for Excellence, a research project between the Art Institute and the Instituto Susch—a joint venture with Gra?yna Kulczyk and Art Stations Foundation CH. The Womxn’s Center for Excellence is conceived as a think tank tasked to assess, develop, and propose new social languages and methods to understand the role of women in the arts, culture, science, and technology, as well as in all knowledge areas that are interconnected with the field of culture today.

Related : Gosila, 10 – 25 November, 2018.

Teresita Fernández, Maelstrom

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Teresita Fernández discusses her solo exhibition Maelstrom and the key topics it unravels in relation to its central theme: the enduring violence and devastation ignited by colonization in the Caribbean. The arist invites viewers to reconsider the region and the erasure of its past in order to develop a deeper understanding of place, identity, and history. Film by Rava Films. via Lehmann Maupin.

A Counterfeit Utopia by Robert Antoni

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On John Adolphus Etzler, social imaginings, inventions with exponential benefits, treatises with titles like The New World, or, Mechanical System, to Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, that Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substances of Life, and Trinidad.

A Counterfeit Utopia, Cabinet Magazine, A Quarterly of Art and Culture, Issue 51, Fall 2013, Pages 60-68 (pdf).

Dorian – Tuesday (09/03)

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BULLETINHurricane Dorian Intermediate Advisory Number 40ANWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL       AL052019800 AM EDT Tue Sep 03 2019...EYE OF DORIAN BEGINNING TO INCH NORTHWESTWARD......SOUTHERN EYEWALL CONTINUES TO POUND GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND...SUMMARY OF 800 AM EDT...1200 UTC...INFORMATION----------------------------------------------LOCATION...27.1N 78.4WABOUT 40 MI...70 KM NE OF FREEPORT GRAND BAHAMA ISLANDABOUT 110 MI...175 KM ENE OF WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDAMAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...120 MPH...195 KM/HPRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 325 DEGREES AT 1 MPH...2 KM/H

Miami’s Bahamian community organizes relief effort – Christ Episcopal Church and Greater St. Paul A.M.E. in Coconut Grove. (Miami Herald)

Also, Bahamas Hurricane Restoration Fund setup since 2015.