Marius Cultier - The Way (1976)

There isn't much information out about Marius Cultier. Released several albums through the 70's and then died in 85, my guess is he was quite young at the time. I didn't know what to expect coming into this album, and I put it in my African folder before looking into it more.

The album starts off with "The Way it Should Be", a very sensual loungey jazz type of song, with heavy emphasis on vocals. The next few songs are mostly Afro-Caribbean rumba/souk/jazz music, with a few more soul type songs thrown in as well. A real mix. "Piano A Marius Cultier" is one of the rumba songs while "Nathalie" is another of the soul ones.

Then we get to "Zouk" which starts off with a cat meowing and is rumba taken to extremes. If not the best song on the album it's certainly the most interesting.