Name: Rest' La Maloya
Brand: Alain Peters

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BJR7LP

Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-03-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

7640159730255

Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

Alain Peters

Genre GB

African

Label GB

Les Disques Bongo Joe

<p>After seeing photos of our record store in Geneva named after their long-lost relative, George 'Bongo Joe' Coleman's family was overjoyed that European music lovers decided to honor his name. To learn more about Bongo Joe Coleman, you can visit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongo_Joe_Coleman">this link</a>. And if you want to experience his unique sound and style, check out his performance of "I Wish I Could Sing" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez_3bqMI

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.

Rest' La Maloya

Music GB