RUDDY BOA / KÖRINN PIERRE-FANFAN / SONNY TROUPÉ / ARLET FEUILLARD

Originating in Guadeloupe, Gwo Ka is a musical style played mainly on drums called “ka”, with song and dance also forming an integral part of its identity. Revisited in the 80s by musician Gérard Lockel, it takes the form of Gwo Ka Modèn, and adds brass instruments and guitar to its composition, as well as a precise scale to be respected. This concert will be an opportunity to present the “Karuka” invented by Ruddy Boa, an instrument born in the wake of the Gwadlouka, a metallic percussion played with bamboo sticks, invented by Gérard Lockel to make sounds opposite - or rather, complementary - to those of the skins: the Ka drum, the snare drum of the drums. Through it, improvisation finds its place, as a free echo to the makè drum and the drums. It's to this history that the “Lockel & Gwo-Ka Modèn Explorations” project pays tribute, a national music-symbol, a tool for decolonizing musical thought through tonal and atonal music based on the science, swing and musical feeling of traditional gwo-ka. Discover or rediscover this musical style with Ruddy Boa on piano and Körinn Pierre-Fanfan on vocals, Arlet Feuillard on Ka drum and Sonny Troupé on drums.