World Music Matters

World music matters - Jazz allowed Jowee Omicil to 'speak many languages'


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Jowee Omicil is a free-form multi-instrumentalist born in Montreal to Haitian emigrants. His new album Love Matters blends African rhythms, melodies by Bach and Mozart, and pays tribute to jazz greats like Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. "We don’t have no boundaries," he tells RFI. "Those lines, like Hugh Masekela said, those lines were handmade and we’re trying to eradicate those frontiers with the music again, we’re trying to unite."
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World Music MattersBy RFI English

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