- artist:Fra Fra Sound (7tet)
- featured artist:15
- release year:1997
- style(s):Jazz
- country:Netherlands
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Samponé Music Productions
- label:Pramisi Records
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Kaseko is the best known music from the Republic of Surinam. Its previous history started around 1990 in the capital Paramaribo with small groups of Creole street musicians. Later on, between the 1920's and 1940's, influences from New Orleans jazz lead to simultaneous instrumental improvisation on brass instrumentswhile performing Surinam folk songs. The typical rolling patterns of the snare drum were contrasted with varying beats on a bass drum. This music, at times called bigi poku, was also played by members of the military band when off duty at people's dance parties. After the Second World War influences from latin music and calypso set in, resulting in a new vocal-instrumental style of Creole Surinam dance music, for which the name kaseko was soon in vogue.
Surinam jazz musicians have transformed kaseko and bigi poku via jazz and mainly African-Caribbean world music into new musical styles such as paramaribop and kaseko jazz.
Musicians:
Errol Bakboord, Andro Biswane, Robin van Geerke, Kenrick Gunther, Russel Halmeyer, Vincent Henar, Carlo Hoop, Guno Kramer, Mark Milan, Juan Pablo Nahar, Michael Simon, Roël Simson, Ronald Snijders, Efraïm Trujillo & Eddy Veldman.
Vocals:
Carlo Goedhart, Oscar Harris, Gerda Havertong, Ingrid Simons, Robert Sordam & Steve Teunis.