2x12" Compilation LP African/ World / Latin / Wporld Music - 20 Tracks A confluence of world rhythms; mainly African and Latin beats and languages of the colonizer: Spanish and French.
Following successful excursions into rare tropical and island sounds with the ‘Sofrito’ series, ‘Haiti Direct’ and ‘Calypsoul 70’ albums, Strut Records turns its focus to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius for a new compilation, ‘Soul Sok Séga’.
Séga first developed as an insular music and dance form after slaves arrived on Mauritius (then île de France) from East Africa and Madagascar during the 17th to 19th centuries, using Créole language and rhythms played on the large ravanne circular drum, the triangle and the maravanne, a box filled with dried seeds. Séga was essentially frowned upon and marginalised by the Mauritian bourgeois until the 1950s when singer Ti Frère began to play a more Westernised fusion of séga. Through Ti Frère and his contemporaries like Serge Lebrasse, the music began to be popularised during
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Ti L'Afrique - Soul Sock Séga
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Jean-Claude - Mademoiselle
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Georgie Joe - Eliza
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John Kenneth Nelson - Manuel Bitor
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Marie Josée & Roger Clency - La Vie En Badinage
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Claudio - Bonom Chinois
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Les Stardust - Sega Lenoir
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Coulouce - L'Amour Artificiel
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Caludio - Bhaï Aboo
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Christophe - Mo Parrain
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Cyril Labonne - Pop Soul Séga
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Harold Berty - Mone Laisser Dire Toi
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Michel Legris - Elida
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Catherine Velienne - Mo Mari Fini Allé
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Jean-Claude - Séga Souval
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Ramone - Nouveau Venu Dans L'Endroit
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John Kenneth Nelson - Z'Enfant Misère
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Georges Jean Louis Afro - Mauricien
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Yoyo - Coco Mamzelle
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Christian Tossé - Madame Zean
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