Artist: Christine Salem Title Of Album: Salem Tradition Year Of Release: 2012 Label: Christine Salem Genre: World, Funk, Soul Quality: Mp3 Bitrate: 320 kbps Total Time: 65:35 Min Total Size: 158 Mb Tracklist: 1. Ti Blé 2. Camélia 3. Christine Salem feat. Moriarty – Sakalav 4. Maloki 5. Komor Blues 6. Alouwé 7. Djinn 8. Christine Salem feat. Moriarty – Mikonépa 9. Gouloum 10. Yelo 11. Django 12. Kadjembawé 13. Finalé 14. Christine Salem feat. Rosemary Standley & Portia Manyike – Lespwar 15. Christine Salem feat. Rosemary Standley & Portia Manyike – Thula Sizwe Salem Tradition is Christine Salem surrounded by a singer and two percussionists playing rouler, kayanm, doundoum and djembe. Christine Salem chants with a voice almost raucous but utterly bewitched, an inspired Maloya rooted in the Afro-Madagascan and Indian Ocean heritage. Christine Salem is rapidly becoming a major Reunion Island artist. She carries the Maloya with her, music reserved for men until just a few years ago, improving on it, her deep voice joining the percussion’s hypnotic ballads. The singer’s work is bringing new life to this Reunion Island tradition. With her group Salem Tradition, she has been striving to achieve something very exciting for the past fifteen years: opening Reunion maloya to languages and forms linked to it’s genealogy. Maloya music, close to three-beat blues, is now emblematic of the island after having been swept under the carpet for decades because a “cafre” music i.e. considered too closely linked to African and Madagascan black slaves. Not content with having visited Madagascar and the Comoros to meet maloya’s sister cultures, Christine Salem adds touches of Swahili and Arabic to Reunion Creole. “In the beginning,” she explains, “people said they didn’t understand, that it wasn’t Reunion music. There was still a lot of ignorance about maloya, but now people accept it better.” |