Haitian band Lakou Mizik is out with its second album — a dazzling set of collaborations with New Orleans musicians, celebrating the close musical and cultural ties between the two places.

Haitian band Lakou Mizik's new album is called Leave the Bones. Member Steeve Valcourt and musician Joseph Ray, who collaborated with the band, talk with NPR's Scott Simon about it. The band Lakou ...

“It was the end of the world, because we’d never seen something like that — the last earthquake was generations ago,” says Steeve Valcourt, co-founder of Lakou Mizik, the Haitian band that ...

to only-in-Haiti flavors such as vodou, Kompa, and mizik rasin. In an effort to collect a kind of tasting menu of popular Haitian music, we’ve put together a Spotify playlist with a little of ...

Amid the chaos, Lakou Mizik came together. Lakou Mizik is a collection of nine Haitian musicians ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 60s. The group is all about rediscovering the roots ...

RAM, a mizik razin band from Haiti ... Founded in Port-au-Prince in the early 1990’s, RAM has a 25-plus year history as Haiti’s premier kompa, rara, rasin, twoubadou, and voodoo-rock ensemble. The ...

For proof of that, look no further than Lakou Mizik, the Haitian band making an appearance Sunday at Music Haven in Central Park. Advertisement Article continues below this ad If You Go Lakou ...

Lakou Mizik’s first appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival sparked an album. The Haitian music collective had just released its debut, “Wa Di Yo,” in 2016 and stopped at the ...

then one of konpa’s biggest stars before he became Haiti’s president in 2011, and 10 years later, Jean would perform live with Djakout Mizik at MTV’s 2007 New Year’s Eve. But for the most ...

The band was formed in response to that quake, from which Haiti has still not recovered. The nine bandmates of Lakou Mizik now have a new album. And they hope that it might heal and teach others ...