Alain Peters

Hurting, spiritually-charged, Creole genius from the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, recorded in the 1970s and 80s.

Gorgeous songs seamed with Eastern mysticism and the Romantic sublime and about childhood, eschatology, sufferation, fishing, favourite island haunts and explore the existential homesickness of the Creole wanderer, at the crossroads of African, Indian and European cultures.

Gently hypnotic percussion, Fender Rhodes, ngoni, two plastic bags rubbed together... A one-of-a-kind blend of blues, maloya and outernational roots, with strains of reggae, prog and free jazz.

• 01 caloubadia
• 02 mange pou le coeur
• 03 la rosee si feuilles songes
• 04 la peche bernica
• 05 plime la misere
• 06 ti pas ti pas narriver
• 07 complainte de satan 2
• 08 ti cabart
• 09 wayo manman
• 10 restla maloya