Erol Josué releases on May 28, 2021 his new album Pelerinaj on the label Geomuse. The voodoo priest, actor, singer and dancer invites us with this disc to a musical and intellectual journey that is sacred, intimate and festive. We discover the clip of Erzubie in first extract on Justfocus. Erol Josué, had not released an album since 2007 and this opus is deliberately a work with multiple entries, not responding to a signature of homogeneous production but bringing together many artists – sound sculptors, recorded over time, such as Philippe Cohen Solal (Erzulie), Jacques Schwarz-Bart and Ben Zwerin (Gédé Nibo, Chango), Mark Mulholland (Badji, Kafou), Ronald Cauvon (Ati sole), Arthur Simonini (tchebe tchebe) or the American producer Charles Czarnecki who mixes traditional sound collections in Benin and Haiti. Creating a bridge between tradition and modernity, as comfortable in roots as in electro, Erol has until now mixed ritual incantations with the subliminal and dark electro of Val Jeanty (mythical Haitian DJ from New York who shared the stage with Steve Coleman in particular). 
Both priest and singer, but also storyteller, dancer and even, since 2012, Director General of the National Bureau of Ethnology of Haiti, he summons the spirits of Haiti, the inhabited voice and the body in trance, with gourd and saturated guitars. To accompany the release of the album, the musician unveiled a new video. Erzulie is a deity of Haitian voodoo, goddess of love and beauty. Beyond the tribute that Erol pays to the one who is also the symbolic mother of Haitians, the clip is a call to the people of Haiti to unite around a common project, a project that participates in transcending particular interests and fighting adversity to build the future in the best interest of the country. Here is the clip of Erzulie that sends us to Haiti in video and music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg1v4cVbwtA Official digital link
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