The Preacher

Coupe Cloue | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 1989)
• Original Release Date: January 1, 1970
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B000059PEO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #559,074 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The king Coupe Cloue, April 13, 2001

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"ktus" (Charlottesville, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Preacher (Audio CD)

Coupe Cloue is a famous haitian musician. His band "L'ensemble Select" was very famous in Haiti and all over the world specially in Africa. Coupe Cloue's Kompa ( which is the haitian most famous style of music) is different and unique. They call it Compa Mamba. This is one of the best album of Coupe Cloue if not the best.

"Myan Myan", the first track, is an amazing song. Coupe is talking about a guy who went to see "l'ensemble select" play live and who fell in love with the music. But during the performance it started to rain and everybody started to leave the place but the guy is so into the music that he cannot leave. Like Coupe said "the music was sweet like a syrup and he was like an ant. Ants always said they'll die in syrup". Very catchy lyrics.

The third track "marie jocelyne" is wonderful. Coupe is singing for a girl called marie jocelyne. He says " I am singing this song for Marie Jocelyne because her love might bring a bad weather sometimes but her sincerity brings sunshine in my heart."

The track called "mango" has a faster pace than the other ones and will make you want to hit the dancefloor.

"ye Ye"..One of Coupe Cloue's masterpieces. In this song he is talking to a guy who left his family to go live with a girl and the girl abandonned him." Yeye you left ur mom and ur dad to get married. they told you not to do it but you still left. now that she left you go find your mother because she will always be with there for you." At the end Coupe Cloue starts to freestyle giving guys advices about girls and the song gets hilarious.

"Collabore" shows that Coupe Cloue could have been a philosoph also. The instrumental is really slow and nice. The lyrics are the following: "Every rosary have their crosses Every church have their priest Every house have his people Every alcoholic have his drink but.. Every rosary has the same meaning:to pray Every church is preaching the christ Every houses are made to sleep and every alcoholics are drinking to get drunk That's a way to demonstrate that we should collaborate even though we are different because we are all here for the same cause."

The other songs on the CD are also very nice. The instrumentals are mostly guitars and percussions. The band was composed of 3 guitarist. Really nice to listen to in every situation.

Trust me on this one. This is an amazing album.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Preacher, April 30, 2006

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Duncan Whyte (uk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Preacher (Audio CD)

I bought this in Paris in 1978/9, on vinyl and had a great time getting into it and playing it to other people.

It has superb bouncy swaying dance rhythms and jangling guitars. Timeless music.

I recently got this on cd. Its just as good.