Aleksand Saya
Country Reunion Genres roots fusion Website saya.re Facebook /saya.974 Festival Sauti za Busara 2022 Recordings 📼Domin, 2021 Aleksand Saya’s music path began in the 1990s Réunion Island hiphop and underground reggae scenes. While he evolved into performing at sound systems and block parties, he fell in love with maloya music, a vector of history, emotions and traditions.
Through ‘kabar’ events, lifted by maloya’s powerful rhythms and instruments, Saya chose to make it the cornerstone of his work. Animated by his curiosity and open-mindedness to the world, the multi-instrumentalist blended beat-making and sampling with roulèr, kayanm and other traditional maloya instruments, now set on a new path of what he calls ‘M’Bas Music’ (maloya bass).
“Electro-maloya is a young scene”, says Saya. “It takes time to grow, and that’s good, because it means the roots will be strong. Trees with strong roots give good fruits and live long. We are still only a few DJs and producers involved in the creation of this new sound. I have the sensation we are at the beginning of something that’s gonna be really huge, and sooner than we think. M’Bas music is for everyone, it’s a call to reunite people. It doesn’t matter where you come from, M’Bas is universal, a celebration of life and togetherness.”
With thanks to IOMMA: https://www.iomma.net/
Algeria Angola Australia Austria Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire Denmark DRC Egypt eSwatini Ethiopia Far East Finland France Gambia Germany Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Iraq Japan Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Morocco Mozambique Namibia Netherlands Nigeria Norway Pan Africa Pemba Puerto Rico Reunion Rwanda Senegal Seychelles Somaliland South Africa Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Tanzania Uganda UK USA Various Yemen Zambia Zanzibar Zimbabwe
acoustic acrobats afrobeat band blues bongo flava coastal comedy dance dj electro fusion hiphop jazz kidumbak pop reggae rock roots rumba spiritual spoken word taarab traditional urban zenji flava