Leon-Gontran Damas - Poesie de la Negritude Fulfilled By AEC 'I Vespri Siciliani' (2003) and

'I Vespri Siciliani' (2003) and 'La Forza Del Destino' (2006)

Writing in High Fidelity magazine

Under the Influence highlights the group's soaring harmonies

The seven track collection was recorded in New York City in October of 1957 and released on the Bethlehem label in December of that same year

Leon-Gontran Damas - Poesie de la Negritude Fulfilled By AEC 'I Vespri Siciliani' (2003) andAs a reaction to the global domination and colonization by the Western world, La Negritude, a literary movement of black intellectuals in Francophone countries, was responsible for the production of many outstanding oeuvres. A prominent figure in the movement (along with Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor), the French Guianese journalist and politician Leon Damas, shares (in French) several selections from his sizable anthology.