Since June 2024, Nicholas Mathew, Jean Bernard, Michele Kennedy, and others have been collaborating on the exciting first album of the Lisette Project, a selection of important music from the Haitian Revolution and subsequent Haitian diaspora. At the heart of the album is the journey of a song — from eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue, through nineteenth-century Paris and Louisiana, back to twentieth-century Haiti. The sound world of the recording will be something thrillingly new: Mathew plays on no fewer than six historic keyboard instruments, and the singers are also joined by baroque guitar, modern guitar, and period strings. Watch this space!
Jean Bernard Cerin at the Lisette Project sessions.