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"Ti Coca & Wanga Nègès"

« (…) Dans la musique du chanteur et bandleader Ti-Coca, il y a une tranche d'histoire des Caraïbes: de la contredanse des colons européens aux rythmes hérités des esclaves africains. (…) Reste une musique chaloupée, doucement entre muée par les contretemps de l'accordéon (…). » - Tribune de Genève


"Ti Coca & Wanga Nègès"

"(...) le Haïtien Ti-Coca est si pétillant qu'il peut réveiller les malades ou faire danser les nauséeux, tout en étant à la fois sucré et corrosif (...). Des mélodies innocentes et un zeste d’ironie qui réveilleront les morts !" - Mondomix - June 2009


"Ti Coca & Wanga Nègès"

« (…) Agitant ses maracas, Ti-Coca chante d’une voix ébréchée cette musique aux parfums d’antan, sans oublier le rythme du compas, la musique nationale d’Haïti et de sa diaspora. Avec son parlé chanté en créole, entrecoupé d’onomatopées pour galvaniser les danseurs. » - Le Monde - June 2009


"Ti Coca & Wanga Nègès"

« (…)Ça rigole, ça s’interroge, ça hurle, la moindre onomatopée répétée, interrompue, distordue pour satisfaire à la dynamique exaltée de l’ensemble. L’humour s’en mêle avec force doubles sens et dérives grivoises, le charme poétique du créole en prisme.(…)» - Télérama - June 2009


"Ti Coca & Wanga Nègès"

« (…) Ti-Coca et Wanga-Neges, on its first American tour, delivered an invigorating set of Haitian twoubadou music, an accordionflavored genre marked by Creole and Cuban folk influences. Veteran singer Ti-Coca (aka David Mettelus) made a particularly strong impression, delighting the audience with his powerful voice, charismatic personality and gliding footwork. (…). » - The Washington Post (USA) - 2005


Discography

Ti Coca & Wanga Négès - "Haïti Colibri" - June 2009 - Label : Accords Croisés - Distributor : Harmonia Mundi

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« Ti-Coca and Wanga Nègès » are to be noticed among the rare professional musicians who embrace the troubadours tradition, small-size bands of acoustic instruments with compositions that reveal a sweet and sour chronicle of the society. The troubadours ensembles are mainly characterized by a particular instrumentation, totally acoustic, that includes most of the time : guitar or banjo, accordion, drum, graj and maracas, double bass or manoumba. They usually officiate during local celebrations, by the sea or in restaurants, as well as in private parties, where they actually are quite requested, due to the shortage of electricity that often restricts the use of audio system or amplified music.

In 1976, the band « Ti-Coca and Wanga-Nègès » was formed around the singer David Mettelus “Ti-Coca”, integrating musicians from konpa bands who were used to play electric instruments. Together, they went back to the acoustic instrumentation and traditional repertoire of the troubadours, in the line of Ti-Paris and Althiery Dorival. Now they currently play music from folklore, traditional songs from the troubadours repertoire and konpa tunes, in which Ti-Coca put all the vivacity of his charming voice. They also compose an attractive cocktail, a kind of lover filter, as insinuated by the name of the band “Wanga Nègès”, creole name of the hummingbird that is supposed to be used in the preparation of love magic.