• 54-page mini-book in digipak format
• The complete poems are reproduced inside
  

Album tracks:

1. Corps perdu (Aimé Césaire)
2. La cohée du Lamentin (Édouard Glissant)
3. Le métier à métisser (René Depestre)
4. À la crinière du cyclone (Georges Desportes)
5. Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Aimé Césaire)
6. Soufrière (Daniel Maximin)
7. La foire aux morts (Gilbert Gratiant)
8. L'enfant du pays (Dany Laferrière)
9. Lettre du sorcier (James Noël)
10. Le cristal automatique (Aimé Césaire)
11. Maire-Galante (Édouard Glissant)

L'or noir, the fruit of a new collaboration between Arthur H and Nicolas Repac, is a spoken-word album of Black poetry—primarily Caribbean—in which the two companions have endeavored to create an ad hoc musical atmosphere for the works of poets such as Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, René Depestre, and Dany Laferrière, selected based on themes of land, love, and death.

Here, Arthur H showcases his reading talents, fading into the background behind the poets' words, more actor than singer, more slam poet than rocker. Nicolas Repac, the sound sorcerer, sets the poets' writings to music—and what music it is! It gives pride of place to the thumb piano, the sanza, the overtone flute, and—naturally—the guitar, which here takes on the air of a kora. By turns scorching or humid, always enamored and steeped in sensuality, the musician has managed to find the ideal rhythms to evoke the magic, heat, and sensuality unique to African and Caribbean cultures.

The whole gives L'or noir a cinematic presence, where nature and its elements, which hold a prominent place here, come to life, where poetry is animated, and which compels us to complete surrender for the duration of an album.