🎵🌴🎺🎸🔥 In 1976, Gordon Henderson and his Exile One bandmates landed in Paris, following the signing of their contract with Barclay. In just over a year, they released two albums and a compilation that put them at the top of Barclay’s French sales charts. FISM is the first in the series, and probably one of the group’s funkiest albums, opening with the irresistible Music of the Brothers and Ole Ole in the vein of Kool & the Gang, Chic and the disco to come (Move Mama Move). The cadence-lypso (Ba Yo Boi, Viel Ou La and its space-intro full of bubbles…) that made the group such a success is packed with white-hot guitars and brass. While the Caribbean is fully present, Barclay’s fashionable touch shines through in all the arrangements. Reggae rears its head again on the B-side, and after a furious FISM, the album finally expands into the swinging, funky mid-tempo rhythm of Nous Travail Pour Ayen.
FISM – Exile One, 1976
