DESTYN MALOYA, a popular band from the French Reunion Islands, will perform a concert of Maloyan Dance Music – the Songs of the Slaves. They reconnect with their original Maloyan roots after years of slavery under the French Colonials. This musical form, which like the blues, is rooted in slavery, has strong links with Creole culture.

Rocked by the winds of the coast and the islands of Reunion, this dynamic 6 member band celebrates and defends its culture, carrying the torch of their ancestors. With its fascinating and playful percussions, DESTYN MALOYA has been constantly developing and changing for the past twenty years, bringing in new approaches to their music and revealing rhythms with very mixed colours. It is a passing down of passion and tradition to future generations. 

On stage, Ramaye Fabrice, vocalist and front-man, leads the boat: his "flow" tense and incisive, and the power of his voice truly impresses. 

He is surrounded by a percussion artillery that turn up the heat and audiences are pulled into the musical current released by them. With assorted traditional percussions, they set the stage on fire.

The lyrics of the band's music remind the listeners, like a "return to the sources", of the sufferings of slaves, their struggles for freedom as well as their daily problems: jealousy, manipulation, disease. 

The versatility of the band’s members also gives the group a great musical variation.

This concert comes to bFLAT in association with Exodus and the Global Isai Festival, India.