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[Tarika. Son egal]
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One hundred years after Madagascar's last queen was forced into exile by the French colonists, and 50 years after the brutally unsuccessful Malagasy uprising, Hanitra Rasoanaivo, Tarika's band leader, has produced a potent recording that critiques political corruption and promotes reconciliation in her homeland between the long-divided Malagasy and Senegalese.
Musically, she continues to emphasize traditional and contemporary Malagasy instruments such as the jejy voatavo, a double-sided harp with a calabash resonator; the vahila, which sounds similar to a harp, the marovanny (box zither); and ...
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Spirit of forgiveness: Malagasy people mark uprising.
Magazine article from: New Internationalist
; ...people remember well enough. With the help of the charity Azafady they are planting one tree for each of the dead. An album, Son Egal by the Malagasy band Tarika, is being released to promote reconciliation with the Senegalese people whose troops were pitted...
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D. Tarika.
Magazine article from: New Internationalist
; ...and songs as spirited as Latin dance tunes. The break comes in the content: Tarika, as well-known for their acclaimed album Son Egal as for their former incarnation as folk band Tarika Samy, have used D to reclaim dance tunes from the 1970s and 1980s, a golden...
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