Songwriter's Corner: Jean Winer Pascal | Part 2

Songs with Jean Bélony MURAT / BélO:

Detripay - Jean Bélony MURAT (BélO)

In " Detripay " you allude to Mariela, the young girl who climbed up a tower. Can you please elaborate on the reference and its meaning in the song?

" Vètij grenpé tèt Maryéla
Poto San Fil jwenn madigra. "

Madness now becomes the norm and our pain is parading in Mardi Gras. I needed to show that as a family, we have reached rock bottom and it is very unfortunate. How in a world, a young girl can reach that point in her life?
As a nation, we can come together and resolve our problem. We need to rebuild our confidence. We need a lot of healing. We need love.


"Detripay" means to gut. That's a strong metaphor to use to describe Haiti's current situation. Tell us how you came up with the concept.

Gutting a whole country is a process not an event. Process involves time and planning. With that in mind, the current Haiti's situation is a long term project against Haiti and all that freedom represents. They have killed our agriculture and most of the food that we are now eating in Haiti is imported.

If you can't feed yourself, now, you are really a slave. We used to grow our own organic food, now, with the GMO situation, we are actually buying our ticket to our tomb by absorbing all that modified food. We are getting sicker and sicker. So, importation has become our condemnation.

Furthermore, imagine the environmental situation that we are in, the very land from under our feet is disappearing, that is the subject that was developed in "Ekoloji" with BélO.

Abuse, rape, violence, prostitution, human trafficking; I am not inventing the problem through the lyrics, this is the reality. We have work to do and I believe that we can come out of this together.


Citizen Of The World - Jean Belony MURAT (BelO)

In the first verse of this song, you pose the question: where's the mecca? Tell us how you came up with that.

A mecca is the center of something, like they say that New York is the world's financial mecca. Planet Earth as a whole is a place that was created for all human beings to live and enjoy life, regardless of where they are on the globe. Now, if all of the resources are controlled by only 1% and 99% percent of the world population find it hard to survive, that is a big problem. So, where ever you are, you should have been ok to live and feel comfortable.
Really, where's the mecca? Because the last time I checked:

"It's just one sky / hard to deny
One horizon/ one location.
One big ocean/ waves in motion
The wind rotation / one vibration."

I also love the bridge of this song. To me, it sums up your world view. Can you tell us what shaped this perspective?

"Who drew that map? / Who planned that gap?
Who set that trap? / (I say) Let's just recap."

The last time I checked:

"It's one planet / one silhouette
It's one gravity / humanity."

That says it all, you are absolutely right. But, I have to make a point that is very important to me, we have to be very careful with that part, I am really not voting for a centralized one world where the one percent holds all the power in every shape of the way.

What is coming our way is the greatest danger that humanity has ever faced. They want a world where all roads lead to only a very tiny few as if the rest of the human population is like cattle. If you go and listen to Manno Charlemagne's song titled: "Òganizasyon mondyal" you would realize that the organized power has no allegiance to the masses.

The idea started with a piece called " Planet la " where I was considering the life that we have here on this planet. I am wishing that the global population chooses to say no to anything that would jeopardize their freedom as human beings.


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