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On Sunday night, where was your 38-year-old scribe? You got it. Chez moi, in my bed, now with kompa memories on my mind, but more deliberately giving the old bones some rest. As my Haitian friend Caroline would say, the experience was "anfom anfbm" - an awesome three nights of kompa in "the greatest city in the world"!
There were only a handful of people at the Creole restaurant when we arrived an hour before midnight. Four hours later, the place was packed, and [Carimi Crew] must have "shut down the brasserie" around sunrise. The next day, I invited a friend of Cape Verdean descent, who is also familiar with Creole music, but of the Portuguese variety, to S.O.B.'s (home of Universal Music) in Manhattan, for a Haitian dance party.[...] next week mes amies, stay well, restez bien!See the full content of this document
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In a Kompa State of Mind
NEW YORK (April 8, 2010)- Over the past few months, I have been listening to the Creole rhythms of an incredible musical genre called kompa.
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