Let me tell you about this song! As you may notice on this album I did some composition with the topic slavery. Now this song is not on the album. This is a traditional song from my country Suriname. I did this with a jazz /latin trio ' A Dyari '. Me playing the guitar, my friend Kenrick on drums and my buddy Gerold on the double bass. The titel of the song is - Alontyi Kon Dansi- . Translation- Alontyi is the name of a slave. Kon Dansi means ' come on and dance. So you see the Suriname languages is actually English but lets say spoken with an African slang. Slave were not allowed to speak their own languages. There are stories that slave owners will cut out their tongue if they hear them speaking. Also slaves were not allowed to dance. The story is that back in those days there was a huge celebration in Suriname. The King (from the Netherlands, Suriname was a colony of Holland) was invited and also the governor and other high political officials. For this occasion the governor of Suriname gave one slave permission to dance before the King. His name was Alontyi. The lyrics. (translated) ' Alontyi come and dance' ' Alontyi come and dance' ' Dance let the King see you dance' 'Dance let the governor see you dancing '. This track is an instrumental. I tried to bring happiness in this version. The intro is a little sad but i hope you feel the joy of Alontyi and of course from all the other slaves, because with celebrations like this the slaves had one day free! ' Enjoy.more

Let me tell you about this song. The rhythms and some of the instruments you hear on this track are all from my native country Suriname. No program beats or digital interference in the percussion set up. All instruments lively played by the musicians. The name of the genre is Kawina. Bet you never heard of this before?!. I feel blessed to be the first musician to present this music to you. The style of music has a long but painful history. Slavery!! In this dark period of humanity slaves were not allowed to keep their culture and religion. While slaves in USA start singing on the fields because there were not allowed to play instruments (We know where the blues came from) something else happened in the West Indies. In my country slave managed (in secret) to keep their culture and religion. They kept on playing their native instruments (all African drums) The setup is African based drums and singers. The music and lyrics are based on worship of the elders, marriage or other culture based celebrations. For me this song is the first fusion or collaboration with pop/funk/soul etc. So now I present this to you!!..Enjoymore

The song is about slavery! Its about searching or trying to find away to recover. For nearly three centuries there was slavery in my country Suriname. My ancestor endured humilation, torture, abuse..Despite the fact that we are free the healing is still taking part! more