Artist: Christine Salem
Album: Salem Tradition
Genre: World Fusion, Funk, Soul
Label: Cobalt
Released: 2012
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Ti Blé
- Camélia
- Sakalav (feat. Moriarty)
- Maloki
- Komor Blues
- Alouwé
- Djinn
- Mikonépa (feat. Moriarty)
- Gouloum
- Yelo
- Django
- Kadjembawé
- Finalé
- Lespwar (feat. Rosemary Standley & Portia Manyike)
- Thula Sizwe (feat. Rosemary Standley & Portia Manyike)
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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.”