“Come discover my music,” he smiled before taking to the piano at Baba Makhan Shah Lobana auditorium. Accompanied by Alex Bernard on bass guitar and Gregory Louis on drums, Canonge went from one song to another blending in traditional jazz with a distinct Caribbean flavour. Fusion is always a difficult territory to tread on, but Canonge seems to do so very easily. His music ebbs and flows smoothly, much like the evening tide coming in from the sea.

Having imbibed the traditional music of Martinique with inspirations from the nearby islands, Guadeloupe in particular, Mario’s music is truly his own.