Pa gen mizik pase peyi m: A Tour of Haiti in Ten Songs
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince · · 2 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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Each more poetic than the last, the ten songs on the album Pa gen mizik pase peyi m form a vibrant journey across the country. Bearing the warm colors of the Caribbean, this album by Jean Venel Casséus takes the listener from Fort-Liberté, in the Northeast, to Jérémie, in Grand'Anse.
It is a journey of love, at once carnal, spiritual, and patriotic, connecting the cities of Haiti as notes are connected in a single melody. A Cartography of the Heart Under the poet's pen, cities take on breath and face.
Fort-Liberté is a love that offers itself without discrimination.
Cap-Haïtien is a source of love and happiness.
Port-de-Paix is a jewel to be loved without reservation or end.
Les Gonaïves express gratitude and memory.
Hinche is the heartbeat of a sincere love.
Port-au-Prince is the mother, the strongbox of all truths.
Jacmel embodies the city of beautiful souls.
Miragoâne is an audience between the sea, the pond, and time.
Les Cayes has the beauty of a siren.
Jérémie is a poem before the sun and music before the moon. An Aesthetic of a New Gaze Through this project, Jean Venel Casséus rejects the fixed gaze cast upon Haiti. He reminds us that the country, like any living land, has multiple angles from which to be viewed. The artist positions himself at the angle of beauty, light, and creative breath. His work rises as a response to the weariness of judgment and the noise of resignation. When Poetry Marries Music Pa gen mizik pase peyi m is a sensitive journey. Aboard this imaginary Lamborghini that is poetry, the listener discovers a country that speaks to both body and soul.
Jean Venel Casséus, author, composer, and poet, unites tenderness and pride, exile and presence. He sings Haiti to make it dance and to invite everyone to look at it differently — not through its sorrow, but through its beauty.
It is a journey of love, at once carnal, spiritual, and patriotic, connecting the cities of Haiti as notes are connected in a single melody. A Cartography of the Heart Under the poet's pen, cities take on breath and face.
Fort-Liberté is a love that offers itself without discrimination.
Cap-Haïtien is a source of love and happiness.
Port-de-Paix is a jewel to be loved without reservation or end.
Les Gonaïves express gratitude and memory.
Hinche is the heartbeat of a sincere love.
Port-au-Prince is the mother, the strongbox of all truths.
Jacmel embodies the city of beautiful souls.
Miragoâne is an audience between the sea, the pond, and time.
Les Cayes has the beauty of a siren.
Jérémie is a poem before the sun and music before the moon. An Aesthetic of a New Gaze Through this project, Jean Venel Casséus rejects the fixed gaze cast upon Haiti. He reminds us that the country, like any living land, has multiple angles from which to be viewed. The artist positions himself at the angle of beauty, light, and creative breath. His work rises as a response to the weariness of judgment and the noise of resignation. When Poetry Marries Music Pa gen mizik pase peyi m is a sensitive journey. Aboard this imaginary Lamborghini that is poetry, the listener discovers a country that speaks to both body and soul.
Jean Venel Casséus, author, composer, and poet, unites tenderness and pride, exile and presence. He sings Haiti to make it dance and to invite everyone to look at it differently — not through its sorrow, but through its beauty.
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