Nandele, Insula - Nandele - Mbau w/ Insula - 22nd of December 2022

A french island in the Indian Ocean. Following his course in the School of Arts, Insula has built a creative process that places the concept of hybridity at the center of his work. Multidisciplinary artist, deejay and music producer, Insula, for a few years now, has devoted himself to electronic music. A life-changing trip to Madagascar helped reshape his musical identity through “Maloya“, one of the main traditional music from Réunion Island, giving birth to a new line of production named “Tromba”. This project mixes the ternary rhythms of Maloya with electronic sounds. A dialog between musical styles that evokes a Maloya trance, the cultural mix of the West and the concept of a Maloya augmented by digital synthesis tinted in afro-futurism. A #Maloyafutur if you may say, following the creole touch electro movement. Playing from a wide spectrum of electro Maloya to Kreoltech, Insula through his work tends to highlight ternary rhythms, and traditional polyrhythmic end ...