2023-09-29 19:00:23
Every Friday, The World Africa presents three new musical releases from or inspired by the continent. This week, we offer you a detour to Reunion, an island of cultural mix between France and Africa… but not only that.
“I am the flower”, by Oriane Lacaille
“Poetry is the anxiety of magic”, Oriane Lacaille told us at the end of 2021, during the Sakifo Musik Festival, on the south coast of Reunion. The singer and percussionist born in 1986, daughter of René Lacaille (who participated in the revival of maloya, in the 1970s, with the group Caméléons), then presented the album Creole cemetery alongside Jérémie Boucris, the other half of the Bonbon Vodou duo.
Friday October 6, the one that says « zoréol » – half “zoreil” (the nickname of the French in mainland France), half Creole – will release his first album under his name, entitled iViV (“it lives”, in Creole). Two extracts have already been released, including I am the flower, a very gentle piece, shrouded in dreaminess and mystery.
“Good”, by Kosasa
If the texts of the author and actor Sébastien Joanniez are at the heart of the album Fé raises the death (which can be translated as “bringing things from the past back to life”), to be released on October 6, it is another “zoreil”, the guitarist, singer and composer David Suissa, who is at the origin of the Kosasa project (“what is that”, in Creole), described as “traveling writing laboratory”.
Accompanied by bassist Vincent Girard, he invited artists from the island (Mélanie Bourire, Luc Joly, Frédéric Madia, etc.) to experiment with their creations, giving birth to pieces imbued with poetry and maloya. On the title GOOD, it is the percussionist and singer Eno Zangoun who invites us to take a stroll on the ancient Bourbon Island.
“Ti Meline”, de Saroyé
Bringing together maloya and Cuban rumba: this is the ambition of the Saroyé group, formed around Reunion singer Luc Moindranzé Karioudja (Ti’Kaniki, An’Pagay, Parranda La Cruz, etc.) and whose first album, In Ler, published in June, is enriched with contributions from Africa and South America, reducing the distance between the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
In the middle of this abundant fusion, there is a title, little hair, with disarming simplicity, which reveals all the power of traditional maloya from a kayamb, a triangle and voices practicing “responsorial alternation” between a soloist and a choir – a practice inherited from the work songs of slaves Africans in sugar cane plantations.
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