EDMONY KRATER has been known as a member of the formation GWAKASONNÉ in Guadeloupe since the late 1970s. The drummer, percussionist, author, composer, singer and trumpeter has lived in France since 1983. After HEAVENLY SWEETNESS re-released the 1988 album "Tijan Pou Velo", which was popular and sought after by genre connoisseurs, the master of Gwo-Ka music presented his first new studio album in 30 years with "An Ka Sonje" in 2018 - and thrilled Caribbean, French and European audiences with it. The successor "J'ai Traverse La Mer" (I Crossed the Sea) refers in the title song to the colonial deportation of millions of Africans, a large number of whom ended up on the Caribbean islands. KRATER's five-member core band, which also includes the renowned Guadeloupe Gwo-Ka percussionist ROGER RASPAIL, brings together several generations of Afro-Caribbean musicians and is reinforced by guest appearances by three background singers and the jazz pianist FLORIAN PELLISSIER. KRATER remains true to his fundamental credo of showing the traditional Gwo-Ka music of his homeland the way into the future by combining elements of jazz, funk and soul as well as digital sounds and presents nine wonderfully polyrhythmic, atmospheric and highly melodic songs.