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Encyclopedia > Les Vikings de Guadeloupe

Les Vikings de Guadeloupe were a French Antillean mini-jazz and cadence band. The members included Pierre-Eduard Decimus (later a founder of Kassav') and Dominican singer Gordon Henderson. The band is best known for their driving rythyms and extremely complex chord progressions. Their drummer was known to play often in the 3:4 polyrythym, making the music very coplex and beautiful. Originating in Haiti during the 1960s, the mini-jazz movement was influenced by other Caribbean music styles, the British Invasion, and French pop. ... Look up Cadence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Cadence has the following meanings. ... Kassav is a Francophone Zouk band which was formed in 1979. ... Gordon F. (Fripp) Henderson, CC , BA , LL.D. , QC (1912 – August 18, 1993) was a pre-eminent Canadian intellectual property lawyer. ...


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