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Alain Péters - Rest' La Maloya
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Alain
Péters
is
one
of
the
best-kept
secrets
in
the
music
scene
of
the
Indian
Ocean
and
beyond.
His
music
is
unique:
a
blend
of
Creole
blues,
maloya
and
international
folk,
it
discretely
takes
hold
of
you
and
never
leaves
you.
Péters
travelled
through
the
70s
and
the
80s
like
a
shooting
star,
alone
or
with
a
band,
with
his
Sahelian
lute,
his
reel-to-reel
tape
recorder,
firewater
and
ill-fated
genius.
He
died
in
1995,
aged
43.
Poet,
musician,
singer
and
melody-maker,
he
left
behind
a
handful
of
sublime
songs
which
are
gathered
here
for
the
first
time
on
vinyl.
Full
of
dazzling
beauty
and
sparkling
darkness,
his
songs
express
the
yearning
homesickness
of
the
Creoles’
highly
sensitive
wandering
soul,
at
the
crossroads
of
African,
Indian
and
European
cultures.
Réunion
(literally
“the
gathering”)
is
aptly
named
and
over
the
course
of
his
uncertain
career,
Péters
continuously
embodied
the
soul
of
this
culturally
hybrid
land
with
a
fusion
of
African
instruments,
Indian
mysticism
and
European
poetry.
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