The album (2CD/digital) not only features great vocals by Busy Signal, Face-T, Warrior Queen Burro Banton, YT, MC Zulu, Mr. Slaughter, Mikey Dangerous, Serocee, Boogat, Erup but also a wide range of remixes by Sticky, Douster, Stereotyp, Maga Bo, WILDLIFE!, Baobinga, Mungo’s Hifi, Uproot Andy, Marflix, Hovatron, Dub I.D., Machinedrum. You can’t ask for more!

It was a fantastic project to do, my first double album, and it was more than a year long in the making. I’m also happy to have Guillaume Simoneau’s incredible pictures for the cover art and the 12 pages booklet.

Buy here :
- iTunes
- Amazon
- Juno
… and in every good record store.

Running High - Canada Tour

4/1 - HAMILTON - CLUB ABSINTHE (w/ Boogat)
4/3 - OTTAWA - RITUAL (w/ Face-T & Boogat)
4/8 - TORONTO - WRONG BAR (w/ Face-T)
4/9 - MONTREAL - BELMONT (w/ Face-T & Boogat)
4/10 - GATINEAU - PETIT CHICAGO (w/ Face-T)
4/15 - HALIFAX - PARAGON THEATER (w/ Face-T)
4/16 - SAINT JOHN (NB) - EVOLUTION NIGHTCLUB (w/ Face-T)
4/22 - CALGARY - HIFI CLUB (w/ MC Zulu)
4/23 - SASKATOON - SKRATCH (w/ MC Zulu)
4/24 - EDMONTON - STARLITE (w/ MC Zulu)
4/30 - VICTORIA - SUGAR NIGHTCLUB (w/ MC Zulu)
5/1 - VANCOUVER - BILTMORE CABARET (w/ MC Zulu)

Facebook event for the whole tour.

Also, I’ll be bloging on the EXCLAIM! blog : rbma.exclaim.ca

A big thank you RBMA and EXCLAIM! for all the support and for the cover story that you’ll discover soon!

My remix of the first single “La Gloria” from new Gotan Project album is now available on 10″. The digital/mp3 is coming out soon in three weeks.

Listen here.

Back to SXSW!

I’ll be there for the whole week, having 5 gigs/showcases. Some with MC Zulu, some alone.

March 17 (Wed.)
@ TORMENTA TROPICAL - IRON GATE (1am)

March 18 (Thur.)
@ POP IT - CUBA LIBRE (12am)

March 19 (Fri.)
@ NINJA TUNE SHOWCASE - THE INDEPENDANT 501 STUDIOS w/ MC Zulu (11pm)

March 20 (Sat.)
@ FADER FORT (3pm - 5pm)
@ POP MTL SHOWCASE - CANADA HOUSE w/ MC Zulu (1am)

Wha-La-La-Leng feat. Face-T have been nominated for the Juno 2010 (Canada’s Grammy/Brit Awards) in Reggae Recording of the Year! It’s the first time Poirier is nominated at the Juno. The galas will be on April 17 and 18 in St. John’s. Wha-La-la-Leng video here.

In the meantime, Face-T and Poirier are in the studio, recording Face-T’s first solo album. Expect it late 2010.

I’m working on that great project/documentary called US of Africa (Les États-Unis d’Afrique) directed by Yanick Létourneau from Périphéria. Obviously, I’m working on the music. I’ll do the whole soundtrack for the movie and that’s very exciting and challenging. It will be my first time being involved in a projet like that.

The movie, a long-feature, to do a long-short story, is about Hip-Hop, about black leaders in Africa and North America, about social and political views, about Dakar, Johannesburg, Bronx, about hope, about a new vision and way more.

So last week I had a meeting to see some of the pre-edits and rushes. I feel very involved in the project since I know and met some of the key figures in the movie. I was in Burkina Faso when Norbert Zongo was killed/calcinated in 1998… It was such an intense and troubled period there… You can see Awadi (top picture), Smockey (just below) in the rushes, some of the best rappers from Africa that met long time ago.