In Guadeloupe, many people think that jazz and ka music are like a ring and a finger. To some extent, the same could be said about so called Latin music and the music played in the French West Indies. Both aesthetics were born in the Caribbean and bear so many connections that they can easily be considered cousins. In constant dialogue, there are lots of examples of their fruitful alliance and have been for a while. The English country dance that used to be practiced in European lounges came to be called kadrille in Martinique and contradanza in Cuba. They both featured additional percussion instruments inherited from the transatlantic deportation. Drawing from shared feelings about the same traumatized identity - later to be creolized - it would be hard not to assume that they were meant to inspire each other. This present selection bears witness to such a creative swarming. Here are fourteen tracks of untimely yet unprecedented cross-fertilization: all types of music rooted in the Creole archipelago have found their way, whatsoever, to the tracklisting. Whether originating from the city or being more rural, they all go back to what Edouard Glissant, in an interview about the place of West Indian music in the Afro-American scope, called "the trace of singing, the one which got erased by slavery." "It is so in jazz, but also in reggae, calypso, biguine, salsa... This trace also manifests through the drums, whether Guadelupean, Dominican, Jamaican or Cuban... None of them being quite the same. They all point to the idea of a trace, seeking it out and connecting to each other through it. This is the hallmark of the African diaspora: its ability to create something new, in relation to itself, out of a trace. It may be the memory of a rhythm, the crafting of a drum, a means of expression which doesn't resort to an old language but to the modalities of it." Trackliste 1.1 MALAVOI - TE TRAIGO GUAJIRA 1.2 LOS CARAIBES - DONDE 1.3 TROPICANA - AMOR EN CHACHACHA 1.4 RYCO JAZZ - WACHI WARA 1.5 EUGENE BALTHAZAR - DAP PIGNAN 1.6 ROGER JAFFORT - OYE MI CONSEJO 1.7 LES KINGS - ORIZA 1.8 LA PERFECTA - TUMBADORA 1.9 LES SUPERS JAGUARS - TATALIBABA 1.10 L'ENSEMBLE ABRICOT - SE QUEDO BOOGALOO 1.11 HENRI GUEDON - BILONGA 1.12 LES AIGLONS - PENSANDO EN TI 1.13 LOS MARTINIQUENOS - CATERATE