Name: Troubadour
Brand: Beken

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TT005

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Colour

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2015-05-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Orchard

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

696859945946

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Beken

Genre US

Rest of World

Label US

Thirty Tigers

Troubadour was made according to two well-known Haitian principles of action, mete têt ansamn (putting heads together in cooperation) and ti pa (extremely small steps).Basic guitar tracks and some vocals were laid down in a Port-au-Prince studio, mostly by Beken's son. Beken himself was somewhat wary of the process at first, but gradually began to trust that the production would enhance his sound but not alter it—despite a complicated overdubbing situation in which some tracks (notably the work of accordionist Allen Juste) were added in Haiti, and others in the United States.

Troubadour

Music US