Kassav'

Kassav' is a French Caribbean band formed in Guadeloupe in 1979. The core members of the band are Jocelyne Béroard, Jean-Philippe Marthély, Patrick Saint-Éloi, Jean-Claude Naimro, Claude Vamur, and Georges Décimus (who left to form Volt Face and returned). Kassav' have issued over 20 albums, with a further 12 solo albums by band members.
Kassav' was formed in 1979 by Pierre-Edouard Décimus (former musicians from the Les Vikings de Guadeloupe) and Paris studio musician Jacob F. Desvarieux. Together and under the influence of well-known Dominican, Haitian and Guadeloupean kadans or compas bands like Experience 7, Grammacks, Exile One, Les Aiglons, Tabou Combo, Les Freres Dejean, etc., they decided to make Guadeloupean carnival music recording it in a more fully orchestrated yet modern and polished style. The name of the band is Antillean Creole for a local dish made from cassava root.
Kassav' is the creator of the fast carnival zouk style. The French Antilles' Kassav' was the first to apply the MIDI technology to cadence and fused the genre with funk, and Makossa.
==Links to Peel==
Peel played a track from the group in 1987, especially their Mwen Malad Aw song, but didn't seem to play any further material. He also played Kassav' member, Jacob F. Desvarieux, songs on his shows. After Peel's death, it was later found out that he had a copy of their self titled album in his Record Collection: K.
==Shows Played==
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*25 March 1987: Mwen Malad Aw (LP - Kassav') GD Productions
*14 April 1987: Mwen Malad Aw (LP - Kassav') GD Productions
== See Also ==
*Record Collection: K
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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