Ouelele Souskai
A 8 track zouk album (29m 28s) — released March 28th 2025 on Eating Standing Recordings
Details:
Vinyl Only / Original Artwork / Handly tip-on two parts sleeve on vintage cardboard / Insert with liner notes by Toni Higgins + 30x30 cm picture printed on 300 gram Gmund Color 54 paper. Printed on acid free paper and with food based inks.
Personnel:
Bass – Jackie Bernard
Drums, Congas, Vocals – Denis Dantin
Effects, Percussion, Vocals – Giselle Cultier, Ralph Thamar
Piano, Electric Piano, Vibraphone, Synthesizer, Bass, Vocals, Leader, Written-By, Composed By, Arranged By, Producer – Marius Cultier
Notes:
Marius Cultier was born in 1942 in Fort-de-France, Martinique. He was recognised a highly talented and gifted child who, at the age of nine, conducted with the L'Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Fançaise, the French national public broadcasting organisation. He also cut his teeth as a radio presenter, hosting a popular show 'Punch en Musique', a rapid and precocious rise that further cemented his name as a musical prodigy.
Cultier recorded his debut album in 1969 and by the mid-70s was crafting unique sound, a sound that was part jazz, part funk, and - most importantly - part Martinique. Indeed his debut album was entitled 'Marius De La Martinique' and by the time he recorded what is considered his breakthrough album, 'Ouelele Souskai', Cultier was on the way to creating a real buzz around this new style that was infectious, funky and laden with a distinctive synth signature, bubbling and stabbing keyboard lines and melodic flourishes to create a sound that is unmistakably Cultier, and only Cultier.
After many years, Cultier's 'Ouelele Souskai' is available once more, on a lavish vinyl repress, officially licensed and finally presented to that standard that Cutlier's music deserves.
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