Déliryom

Description

THE 2ND ALBUM FROM THE GROUP LED BY SINGERS ROSEMARY STANDLEY (MORIARTY) AND MARJOLAINE KARLINA RECORD THAT DRAWS ON THE RHYTHMS OF REUNION ISLAND AND ADDS OTHER CREOLE FLAVOURSA violin, a fife, and the immense sky open up to us. Two voices traverse it, a duet of swallows playing their perpetual reunions, joined by percussions beating like waves on jagged coasts. This is the opening of the album Déliryom, the beginning of this watia watia – understand joyful mess or delicious hotchpotch, opened by six zoreys, who are, in Reunion Creole, mainland French people from distant France. But these particular zoreys claim their creolity as a family of choice, a chosen homeland, and celebrate it. Rosemary Standley and Marjolaine Karlin, women as epic as they are choral, met at a concert where Reunion Maloya resonated in Paris. It was in 2008, and their fascination for the island, its rhythms, its language born for poetry, could only bring them together. They also share a common figure, a capital poet and celestial wanderer, who for them would be a spiritual father – Alain Peters. Or rather his ghost, since he passed away in 1995 from a heart attack, leaving behind a daughter, and about twenty songs that have drawn a fertile horizon for all musicians of Reunion… and beyond! Six years after giving birth to a first album (Zanz in Lanfèr, 2016), the two singers continue this great journey, exploring other pieces forged during concerts, always accompanied by percussionist and rhythm doctor Salvador Douézy, and new zorey who have joined them. There’s Gérald Chevillon on the bass saxophone, Chadi Chouman as a guitarist unmatched in reawakening the colours of his native East, and finally Jennifer Hutt, whose energetic violin so skillfully evokes the Cajun colours of New Orleans. For even if this new record tells other facets of the Peters totem, it also ventures towards other Creole lands, other islands where music and song are much more than entertainment: a way of being in the world.