Nou solid - Kanaval 2019
by Boukman Eksperyans · 2019 · rasin · 6:46 · Haitian Creole, French
“Nou Solid” places strength inside a collective pronoun for the 2019 carnival season. Boukman Eksperyans takes six minutes and forty-six seconds of Haitian roots music to move the statement among singers, drums, electric guitar, and crowd. The title does not say “I am solid” but “we,” making endurance depend on links among people. In Boukman's tradition, carnival music can carry resistance and historical memory without stopping bodies from moving. Repeating the phrase is not only bravado. Every public response can serve as evidence that the collective still holds.