5kontinan
by Zenglen · 2019 · kompa · 8:15 · Haitian Creole, French
The Topic title marks “5 Kontinan” as a 2001 track, although the catalog file uses its 2019 digital publication year. Across more than eight minutes, Zenglen takes a global image and places it over the band’s kompa machinery: voice, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, and room for arranging to develop. Five continents widen the horizon beyond one city or diaspora. For a band that served as a school for many HMI musicians, the title fits an ambition to make Haitian sound travel. Its length brings the world into bal form without losing collective roots.