Zanz in Lanfer

Description

Il fallait être plusieurs « zorèys » pour aborder au Pays des Merveilles d'Alain Peters.
A language as dense and flowery as a tropical forest, voices as lost in the reverb as a siren song, an aura of island icon, vapors of rum, a naked body... one would like to be the friend who reaches out a hand to the poet in distress, but we are only the collective of musicians who are going to cover his songs.
Alain Peters is a monument of Réunion music, a local idol, and what is more, the rhythms of the Indian Ocean are reputed to be unplayable, incomprehensible to non-locals.
There is a bridge to cross, a footbridge to suspend above the oceans. One does not need to translate the Creole language to understand it; it is its spirit that must be grasped. The same goes for the music. We must find again within ourselves that intimate place from which a secret, shifting language speaks, the language of the soul, of the heart, of the imagination, a language of resistance, proud and unruly. Alain Peters expresses himself from a place so deep, so right, so simple and so sincere, so unique too, at the crossroads of musics, religions, continents...
Between Catholicism and Hinduism, Africa and the West, between rock'n'roll and bal-la-poussière, between star system and home studio, he brings forth a rare pearl from a grain of sand in the system.
It took several of us to continue the dialogues begun by Alain Peters, we are six: 2 singers and 4 instrumentalists, to retrace the descent of an angel into Hell."