New York - Haiti Music Video

After leaving their homeland Carlo Vieux, Richard Cavé, and Mickael Guirand joined forces and branded their group CaRiMi; derived from the first two letters of each of their first names.

They worked together in Haiti about 10 years ago before a great reunion in New York. Carlo Vieux, Richard Cavé, and Mickael Guirand are great friends and musicians from Haiti who have purposed to make music their lifetime career.

The trio took time in studio preparing beats and new sounds that had never been aired in Haiti. After several months they came out with new lyrics focusing on the social and political problems of Haiti. The song titled "Ayiti Bang, Bang" was released in 2001. That summer the group became famous in their motherland being the first young bands to sing about the insecurity and political problems of Haiti.

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Accolade de New York is a compas band that changed its group line-up from album to album, with a many as 12 group members and as few as six. Their first album La Foi, released in 1980, showed a cover photo of eleven priestly figures with large, white crucifixes superimposed on their religious garments. It made record buyers sit up and take notice. What were they all about?

On this debut LP, they added chants to the typical compas instrument mix. On tracks you hear alto and tenor saxes, trombone, guitar and bass guitar, congas, bongos, and other percussion instruments. Accolade de New York recorded eight releases over the 18 years they were together, using the LP format for all except their last release Koze Kredi, which they released as a CD in 1997.

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