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Sika Valmé is a contemporary Creole-Canadian musician, performer and illustrator. Her music and graphic universe give rise to an immersive synergie of sonic and visual stories. She was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and currently resides between Montréal, New York, and Mexico. As a reflection of Sika’s many migrations, her creations craft timeless narratives that find inspiration in geometry, the natural world, and in the human experience. Her work continuously illuminates elements of her diasporic journey, thus offering a fresh cultural perspective. Erosion Eksperyans is Sika’s re-imagined take on a modern electronic soundscape, bringing traditional beats and rhythms from her Haitian origin to masterfully make her own creole signature sound. Sika’s creations act as a unique bridge that encapsulates the junction between the tropical and the northern worlds.

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Alix Buyu Ambroise is a legendary Haitian Jazz saxophonist. Buyu, as he is known, is based in New York, but was born in Haiti, and lived in the Republic of Congo as a youth. He has been performing in New York City for more than 35 years, playing Haitian Kompa music and Jazz. Despite a long absence from his homeland, Buyu’s roots in Haitian culture remain strong. His melodies are inspired by the rich repertoire of Afro-Haitian music sustained with modern jazz harmonies. From the story-telling traditions of his records Blues in Red, Marasa, and Jazzpora, he has crafted a fruitful combination of traditional Afro-Haitian beats and smooth improvisational Jazz grooves. Buyu has revealed a natural relationship between the complex polyrhythmic structures in both the North American form and the Afro-Caribbean sound of traditional Haitian music. This fusion was the birth of a new musical style that encompasses the two and blends them effortlessly. Although this subgenre of World Jazz is considered cutting edge, Buyu's recordings and live performances are executed with a spirit and level of mastery that invoke a gentle blend of harmonies that have matured on Haitian and American stages for generations.