Pou Janm Pale
by T-Vice · 2007 · kompa, kompa-gouyad · 6:30 · Haitian Creole, French
T-Vice places “Pou Janm Pale” in a video copy uploaded in April 2007. The phrase seems to promise silence forever or concern something that will never be said again, a paradox the title leaves open. Across six and a half minutes, the Martino family sound brings guitar, keyboards, drums, bass, and fast, precise kompa-gouyad. T-Vice regularly brings relationship tension into machinery built for large festivals and diaspora bals. Here, the question of speaking or staying silent remains in the voice while the band continues communicating with bodies through rhythm.