You take two exceptional bands from Martinique founded in the 1990s – Kwak and TaxiKréol – and you put them together, that gives an explosive mixture of colours a rhythms : Kwakxicolor. This Friday November 9, the first evening performances at the Memorial ACTe in Pointe-à-Pitre, on the occasion of the 11th edition of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, host this zouk and kompa machine in which there are two voices from Kwak (Jean-Luc Guanel and Suzy Trébeau) and two voices from TaxiKréol (Danielle René-Corail and Max Télèphe who is also saxophonist and flutist) with other talented musicians…
This quality concert started with a very hot track from the TaxiKréol album called Karaïb’O composed by Franck Donatien and Gilles Voyer – “La Casa de tu Mama” – which was performed by Max Télèphe who immediately made it clear to the audience that, in spite of the bad weather, the temperature was going to rise quickly.
Then, the leader of the band, Jean-Luc Guanel, with a lot of humour took over the operations and zouk and kompa tracks such as “kompa rézon”, “Séré mwen”, “Kontinué”, “Mennen mwen” followed one another for the delight of the crowd. In the second part of the concert, Kwakxicolor welcomed its first guest, Guadeloupean singer Jocelyne Labylle who is a sister for Suzy Trébeau; she sang, among others, her famous music track “J’ai déposé les clés”.
Then, Jacques d’Arbaud who was nicknamed “The man with the golden voice” by some people also came to sing his successful songs released the 1990s, Jean-Luc Guanel paid a beautiful tribute to him and noted that the Guadeloupean artist had begun to sing before him…
The concert given by Kwakxicolor ended around 1:00 am to the applause of a satisfied audience. The next day, the martinican band had also to perform on the second stage of Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe located on the esplanade of the port in Basse-Terre. Some women spectators also shouted to the musicians that they will be there…
