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    Lamizik Sesel (Seychelles Music)

    April 7, 2006 /

    Benn Loxo du Taccu is one of the first music / mp3 blogs I discovered a couple of years ago. Matt is the African music expert of the blogosphere. He was living in Senegal when I first started reading and has since moved to Paris.

    So Matt had a great Seychelles related post today, with a couple of old classic tunes from the island country. As I mention from time to time, my beautiful wife lived there from the age of 3 until that fateful New Year’s Eve 2001 when she was visiting her mom here in Arizona, and we went out on our first date. Yep, she couldn’t resist me. hehe.

    So definitely check out Matt’s post for a nice story and a couple of great tunes. And I’ll throw some contemporary Seychellois music your way with a couple by Brian Matombe.

    Brian Matombe: Ding Ding Kololo (mp3) | Potpourri Moutya (mp3)

    • It looks like you can buy Brian’s album, ‘Lanbyans Tropik’, by sending an email to Segavibes.
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    Chez Seychelles

    May 29, 2005 /

    So my wife and I are sitting in the Glendale Arena a few weeks ago, waiting for Bruce Springsteen to take the stage. The pre-show music that’s piping over the PA is great stuff, most of it I don’t recognize. One in particular gets my wife’s attention. She remembers hearing it as she grew up in Seychelles…. an old traditional folk tune.

    So the other night, I’m checking out Bruce’s web site, and lo and behold, he mercifully has provided us with a list of the pre-show ‘walk-in’ music! It turns out the name of the tune is “Chez Seychelles”, as performed by the keepers of the Cajun sound, Beausoleil. It is indeed a traditional song, and Michael Doucet (of Beausoleil) gets writing credit on the tune (just wondering, does a person get composition credit by offering a new arrangement of a traditional song?).

    Ah, the power of music. The way one song can take you back in time.. it’s an amazing thing. My wife hadn’t heard this song in years, and suddenly, waiting for a Springsteen show to start in the middle of the Arizona desert, she suddenly finds herself back in her homeland, a beautiful tropical island in the Indian Ocean.

    Beausoleil: Chez Seychelles (mp3)