Ou Pati
by Mikaben · 2015 · kompa · 4:45 · Haitian Creole, French
“Ou Pati” states something finished: you left. The Ayititwoubadou version presents Mika Benjamin in a twoubadou form, where guitar and voice carry the departure without a large arrangement. Four minutes and forty-five seconds let the silences work as hard as the notes. Mikaben, born Michael Benjamin in Port-au-Prince in 1981 into a house where music was already a family language — his father Lionel Benjamin — wrote about plain subjects with a precision that makes them stay.