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Million Gold Francs is out April 12 on Ropeadope
Ropeadope is excited to announce the April 12, , release of Million Gold Francs, the latest album by renowned jazz drummer Obed Calvaire. When asked why he named his new album Million Gold Francs, he explains, “to engage curiosity.
People know Haiti has been struggling — but how many people know the history behind that struggle?”
“So if you see that title,” he continues, “what does that mean?”
The answer to that question has intrigued and haunted Calvaire for many years.
Born of Haitian parentage in Miami, he became interested in the tragic deal that shaped his ancestry as a college student: how, after enslaved Black people fought for and won their independence in the Haitian Revolution, their free nation was extorted by the defeated French colonizers, who used warships to demand an impossible sum of million gold francs in reparations.