Tarika: Sulawesi

The album Soul Makassar (released in 2001) by Madagascar's Tarika was a special project where their leader Hanitra Rasoanaivo travelled to Sulawesi in Indonesia looking for the ancestral origins of the Malagasy people. It was recorded in London, Bandung and Jakarta with Indonesian musicians guesting.

From Hanitra's album notes:

"I wrote this song on the second day after I arrived on the island of Sulawesi. From my hotel room window every evening I could see the red sun setting between the light blue sky and the dark blue sea. I was taken on an imaginary trip by the boat of Tanaberu called Amanangapa which supposedly left the south coast of Sulawesi to go to Madagascar. I saw the pinisi, the outrigger canoes crossing the sea in front of me. I felt like I had been taken back home after many years of being lost. I was in a new Antananarivo, an Antananarivo where there was nobody else but my own tribe. The Makassar people say that I am from the Takalar tribe! There was not even one vazaha (white person) in sight at that time. I felt at home."

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Music

Tags:

• Tarika
• Sulawesi
• Soul Makassar
• Madagascar
• Malagasy Music
• Hanitra Rasoanaivo

[TheSimetu]

sound of sundanesse flute, a music from west java indonesia.

[DKITNG]

Nusantara Music

[clarinervium]

@leftysergeant do you mean Malay from Malaysia? or some group of Austronesian archipelago? Malay is one of many tribes of Austronesians and I've never seen malay has valiha like instrument, I myself are Javanese which is also austronesian. Valiha is related to Sasando which is from middle eastern part of Indonesia; very unrelated to malay.

[CushiticSomalianMale]

beautyful African sister..... i like her dark brown skin colour that chocolate type

[leftysergeant]

@clarinervium The Malagasy call it the valiha. They also develooped a rectangular version called the marovany. It was brought to the island by Malay colonists.

[lansanak]

madagascar and indonesia are brother

[yannic586]

beaute sublime de mada et voix envoutente et sublime que du reve  merci

[ZamaFara]

Malagasy are of Indonesian origin so there is no surprise if there are similarities between the two countries. The instrument she is playing is called Valiha, a very popular musical instrument in Madagascar.

Zama

[clarinervium]

I don't know a thing about Malagasy music, but the instrument she's playing is pretty much similar to an instrument in Indonesia called Sasando.

[kokonampy]

KANTO!