Various Artists - Hommage à Alain Péters - Rest'la maloya (2003)

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.

Tracklist:
1 01. Various Artists - Caloubadia (intro) (02:41)
1 02. Various Artists - Caloubadia (intro 2) (04:49)
1 03. Various Artists - Mangé pou le cœur (04:00)
1 04. Various Artists - Hommage à Alain Péters (01:45)
1 05. Various Artists - Waïo manman ! (04:59)
1 06. Various Artists - Complainte de satan (03:17)
1 07. Various Artists - La rosé si feuille songe (05:00)
1 08. Various Artists - Ti cabart (02:27)
1 09. Various Artists - Moin té crois pi (05:01)
1 10. Various Artists - L' tonton Alfred (04:41)
1 11. Various Artists - Complainte de Satan (03:08)
1 12. Various Artists - Rest'la maloya (04:50)
1 13. Various Artists - Romance pour un zezère (04:18)
1 14. Various Artists - Ti pas, to pas n'arriver (04:35)
1 15. Various Artists - Plime la misère (05:33)