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Yeah more of the merengue, which we call
twobadou. Rhythmically it s very close to a merengue. I traveled to Haiti in 2012 and 2013, and that was the first time I had gone there as an adult. I went to this city in the north of Haiti called Cap Haitien, where a lot of this rural secular music originates and banjo was central traditionally to that style of music. What that music became is now called
kompa. Traditionally it s the banjo and the singer place the cha-cha accompanied by the
tambu, which is the Haitian drum. It s secular dance music, and I got really inspired by the content lyrically. The songs talk about a lot of taboo subjects and Haitian culture and society with these beautiful metaphors. It was a huge education for me just linguistically about the Creole language. The twobadou musician who stands out most to me is Althiery Dorival. There s also the band Ti Coca et Wanga Neges, which translates to Little Coca and The Nightingales. I think I ran into that band at t