alain peters – rest’ la maloya (compilation, moi j’connais records 2015) album
Gently hypnotic paeans from the Indian Ocean.
Alain Peters (1952-1995) was a French composer, poet and singer from the little-known island of Réunion.
While he started his career as a “regular” rock musician, and was in and out of bands in the sixties, seventies and eighties, it is his more experimental solo work that has caught my ear.
Fusing the Réunion Maloya and Sega with eastern instruments and his own particular brand of saudade a individual genre of music was born: Alain Peters. “Rest’ La Mayola” compiles hard to find and previously unissued recordings from a man whose music combines European, African and Eastern culture.
Use it to light a small autumn fire in your heart.
