Jouk Mwen Menm Tou
by Salil Lirah · 2020 · gospel · 5:00 · Haitian Creole, French
A major Haitian gospel ballad from Salil Lirah, carried by a patient vocal arc and a worship-band arrangement that lets the refrain build rather than announce itself. Five minutes exactly, and the shape is deliberate: the song withholds its full weight until the congregation would already be singing along. Lirah is not only the voice on it. From Fort-Jacques, he works as songwriter, producer, sound engineer, vocal coach and worship leader, and a record this controlled is what that combination sounds like when one person hears the whole arrangement before it exists.