Ramon Goose, Jim Palmer and Modou Toure Form “Coconut Revolution”

Revolutions are not a new thing, but revolutions based on the coconut fruit are, such a revolution occurred amongst indigenous peoples of Bougainville Island against the New Guinea Army. Their strife was documented in the multi-award winning film The Coconut Revolution which inspired London based producer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jim Palmer to compose a song with the same name.

A chance meeting backstage at the WOMAD festival brought Jim (who had been performing with Baaba Maal) and British guitarist Ramon Goose (who had just completed an album with Senegalese griot Diabel Cissokho) together and the two realized they were on a similar path of musical exploration and discovery. Ramon suggested bringing in Senegalese vocalist Modou Touré (son of renowned singer Ousmane Touré ) and the band was formed and what better name to describe the musical concoction that is to follow than the Coconut Revolution!