Karlex
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Home Town: Montpellier, France
Genre: World/Folk
Posted By: MusicDish
Joined On: November 14, 2007
Page Views: 1,804
Song Plays: 17
Current Rank: 2,055
Highest Rank: 211
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Albums
Ghetto Fabulous
Similar Artists
Wyclef Jean/ Lenny Kravitz/ Tiken Jah Fakoly/ George Clinton/ Peter Gabriel
Group Members
Karlex Antoine, Frank Chauvier, Alain Cahuzac, Benilde Fodjo Foko, Sega Seck, Yasmina Sayah
Instruments
guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, organ
Musical Style
Afro-Groove / Neo-Soul / Funk
Influences
Jimmy hendrix, Al Green, Bob Marley, Curtis Mayfield, Me'Shell Ndeogeocello, Lenny Kravitz, Dadou Pasquet, Ti Paris, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, The Cure, Public Ennemy |
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"Karlex is a Haitian singer from France grown up in New York, In the nineties he turned back to his country of birth. The result of this tour around the world is that Karlex became a musician influenced by various styles of music, who used a variety of ingredients of this to create a tasty Afro Groove. A groove that, without any doubt also on his album 'Ghetto Fabulous', consists of elements of funk and soul (on 'Sista Love'), urban ('Song for Coco'), pop and off course Caribbean influences. Other attention attracting songs are cd-opener 'I've Got News For You'and 'Farewell Angel' with acoustic guitar as leading part. Tasty cd!" - Translation review on SBS-text (the text papers from national television station SBS6) - Netherlands
| "...Karlex offers us a musical voyage to asserted eclecticism. Exiled in New York before settling in the south of France, the young Haitian guitarist sings the suffering of the ghetto and the hope of a whole people. A mystical album with reggae influences, funk and rhythm plus rock'n'roll are jostled together with grace." - VSD (April 2007 - France)
| | "Karlex comes from Haiti. His music is a mix from jazz suri(nam) soul from the sixties and reggae. It sounds ingenuous and acoustic. His voice is a bit unstable, the music not completely tight. It sounds like the producer has added here and there some session musicians, wind section, drums and Hammond organ, to support the amateurish Karlex. But when it depends to us this was not necessary. He sings "I am who I am" and you immediately here this is pure. All own songs. His a bit out of tune lisping and broken raga-English makes his songs absolutely complete. The king of the huts from garbage-wood and corrugated iron on his pour, pour island had no angle watching over him. He made it all by his self. On "Farewell Angel" we hear the struggle he's gone through to become like he is now: the Bob Marley from Haiti, without any doubt. 5 out of 5 wheels" - JM; Translation review in Autoweek (Netherlands) |
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