Roland Brival’s album ‘Créole Gypsy’ is a rare classic 🎷 #musicreissue #jazz #80s #fypシ

Musician, poet and painter Roland Brival’s 1980 album is a lost classic of Caribbean spiritual jazz. Recorded with a group of Martinique’s top musicians, and combining the bèlè percussion traditions of Martinique. ‘Créole Gypsy’ was born quietly, in a house in the Martinique countryside, composed on an old borrowed piano 🎹 Drawing from the island’s drum traditions while absorbing the harmonic language of North American jazz and soul, Brival crafted a sound that felt both familiar and radically unplaceable. Rooted in tradition yet unbound by rigid definitions of what was Antillean, metropolitan, or jazz, Créole Gypsy refused easy categorisation. #Musicreissue #martinique #soundwayrecords #jazz #80s #spiritual #caribbean