Les Loups Noirs has been played on NTS shows including The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones, with Pile Ou Face first played on 17 April 2015.

Haiti

Led by charismatic singer Gardner Lalanne, Les Loups Noirs (The Black Wolves) were extremely popular in the ’70s, touring extensively and recording across the Caribbean and in New York and Paris. “Pile Ou Face” (heads or tails) is an uncharacteristically experimental instrumental that layers saxophones and swirling organ over a rolling compas beat – a great demonstration of the way that the timbales and percussion sections of the big bands were being replaced by stripped-back cowbell and…