{"id":41784,"date":"2019-04-30T19:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T17:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/the-essentials-of-maloya-music-on-the-digital-kabar-compilation\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:35:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:35:37","slug":"maloya-digital-kabar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/maloya-digital-kabar\/","title":{"rendered":"The essentials of maloya music on the Digital Kabar compilation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Born from the musical union of maloya and electronic music, Digital Kabar<\/em> is a compilation retracing the fusion of the genres since 1980.<\/h4>\n

Maloya is a music style native to the French island of La R\u00e9union\u00a0built up over centuries in the sugar plantations of the Island (which had been populated only three centuries earlier), agglomerating popular sounds brought along by slaves from Madagascar, India and Mozambique. With a very simple language organized mainly around a chant recited as a chorus, a massive drum (the roul\u00e8r) and the kayamb, the genre\u00a0shares the common spirit\u00a0with the techno-house tribes.<\/p>\n

In the early 1960s, in response to growing unrest in Algeria, the French government issued a decree aimed at removing openly pro-independence civil servants from the colonies. The ensuing ban on Maloya was an overtly politically-motivated censoring of a workers’ culture that had become the standard-bearer of the R\u00e9union’s Young Communist Party.<\/p>\n

Over a few decades the style has grown a new branch of maloya that is bound to continue to sprout new buds. And this is what this compilation seeks to tells us.<\/p>\n

The compilation features artists who are still based from La R\u00e9union, including Labelle, Jako Maron and\u00a0Zong and Psychorigid. Discover Jako Maron remix of Patrick\u00a0 Manent’s\u00a0Kabar\u00e9 At\u00e8r<\/em>\u00a0below :<\/p>\n