{"id":111582,"date":"2022-09-14T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/zenet-panon-maloya-malbar\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T11:00:26","slug":"zenet-panon-maloya-malbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/zenet-panon-maloya-malbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Z\u00e8ne\u2019T Panon\u2019s Tamil imbued maloya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reunionese band Z\u00e8ne\u2019T Panon is about to release Z\u00c8NE\u2019T PANON: Maloya Malbar, <\/em>a modern maloya album imbued with Tamil influences.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Driven by their passion for music and a shared culture, Florian Bacar, Fabien Boquet, Da\u00efka Ilata, Magalis Ines and L\u00e9on Peclet, have banded together to record Z\u00c8NE\u2019T PANON: Maloya Malbar. <\/em>On the banks of the Rivi\u00e8re des Marsouins, they set out to play with Tamil inspired rhythm and melodies, using traditional instruments, the morlon, tarlon and malbar drums, together with the pik\u00e8r, the kayanm, the roul\u00e8r, the sati, customarily used to produce the distinctive maloya sound. A tropical rainstorm broke just minutes after the session had ended. Their hypotonic sound was later reworked by artists of the new wave electro maloya, including Jako Marron, EMB, Boogzbrown<\/a>, Aleksand Saya and Loya. They strive to show that maloya has always been a fluid genre, lending itself well to variations and fusions which allows skillful musicians to exploit their full creative potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Z\u00e8ne\u2019T Panon\u2019 members have  thus made their own style blending Afro-Malagasy and Tamil cultures, a modern kind of maloya influenced by the music of Tamil rituals such as the yearly F\u00e8t Bondi\u00e9 Marliemmen, F\u00e8t Karly, Mars Dann F\u00e9 and Sanblani. Indeed, their music is deeply embedded in the spiritual. Each year, on 2nd January each year, Z\u00e8ne\u2019T Panon\u2019s members pertake in a firewalking ceremony which concludes a 18 days retreat at the Hindu Bras-Panon temple, following a strict diet to prepare for a meeting with the godess Pandial\u00e9. \u201cThe musicians cross the red-hot coals to give thanks, repent or appease the deity.<\/em>\u201d This devotion might explain the band\u2019s explosive energy they translate on stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Z\u00c8NE\u2019T PANON: Maloya Malbar <\/em>out October 4th via JuJu Sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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