Living traditions: marovany zouk! Bekamby plays Kassav'

An ethnomusicologist's delight or outrage, depending on their viewpoint! Dubbed off an old back-up VHS, so rather lo-fi now, this is an out-take from the 1997 TV film "Like A God When He Played" about the search for the story and influence of the legendary Malagasy musician Rakotozafy. Traditional marovany player Bekamby demonstrates his wider influences by improvising on Kassav's big international hit Zouk-La Se Sel Medikamen Nou Ni. The band had visited Madagascar in the 1980s and he had heard them on the radio.

Uploaded with permission from film director Celia Lowenstein.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Madagascar
• Marovany
• Bekamby
• Zouk

[maxthenomad]

Great Music and awesome musicians !

[birdybird7]

I'm awe struck

[ndlxs]

Wonderful, so full of life!