Wide Sugarcane Sea

 Sugarcane is a British band that

updates vintage samba and calypso for twenty-first century London. With one British parent and one from the Caribbean, it's not surprising Robin's music is a post-Colonial jumble. Acoustic backyard sambas meet French chansons. Bahian drumming melds with West Indian steel pan, an old drum machine, and a toy melodica.  

Their first album includes a song inspired by Wide Sargasso Sea: 

Cat's Eyes

by Sugarcane 

Frizz Records

10. Wide Sargasso Sea

Written by Robin French

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Produced by Raphael Mann

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Robin French - lead & backing vocals, acoustic guitar, double bass,

Sian Herbert - backing vocals, flutes, steel pan

Claire Niesyto-Bame - backing vocals

Xande Olivera - drums/percussion (shakers, surdo, toms, snare, cabassa)

Mario Repique - percussion (pandeiro, tamborim)

Maree Choie - backing vocals

Alastair French - piano, cavaquinho

Art Terry - piano

Raphael Mann - percussion (glass, guiro), cavaquinho, mandolin

God is in the TV Zine and Earmilk talks about the song:

Robin French re-imagines the opening of his favourite novel in ‘Wide Sargasso Sea‘ from the perspective of a parrot, with steel pan arrangements, maracas and other exotic delights. A jet-black calypso, fun, jerky, deftly serious. (Sam Chamberlain)

"Wide Sargasso Sea" sweeps you off your feet with its jazz-pop goodness. (Paige Sims)