Grégory Laforest shares a rooted tradition and heart in "FEY"

In a moment where music increasingly tries to impress with fast trends, here is Grégory Laforest giving us something to sink our teeth into with his very own track "FEY," taken from his upcoming album 'Ayiti nan Ginen.' Its very first chord welcomes audiences into a world replete with cultural richness and honest emotions, and demonstrates immediately that this is more than sound but an experience. With "Ayiti nan Ginen" and especially "FEY," Grégory Laforest doesn't just write music; he builds a bridge among culture, spirit, and sound.

Laforest's emotive voice guides the track forward with grace, incorporating textured, Ayiti-influenced sounds into an intimate yet universally striking soundscape. And here's the thing: Even the words don't sound written; they sound instead lived-in, and not only because of the record's performances, which are so brutally honest that you can hear Guthrie's age all the way through, like its exhumed mouth ­breathing.

What makes "FEY" so powerful is how it lifts up and away and still keeps its audiences grounded. There's an intimacy to its earthiness, but an audacity to its skyward whoop. Laforest strikes an uneasy balance between local and global sounds, producing music that at once seems intensely personal and epochal, intimate and universal. Both to the listener and the broader industry, "FEY" signals that Laforest has something special to share, one that, even with its avant-garde touch points, is worth hearing.

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