Andrianary Ratianarivo: "Diso Lalana", anti-publicity and anti-"voay"

Always of rigor until this millennium, “Diso Lalana” by Andrianary Ratianarivo (1895-1949) sings in the oldest “hunting” in the world, women’s hunting for pleasure or for “forever”. A life lesson in “Bà Gasy”.

In 1941, the tenors of Nazism laid their so-called promising “Madagascar plan», Make the Big Island a giant concentration camp. It was in a out of phase country and ignoring its story that Andrianary Ratianarivo (1895-1949) came out the melancholy “Diso Lalana». At that time, time was at “blues». Families torn apart by forced commitment to the French army to go to the front against the Germans. Finally, most of them ended in cannon flesh. Harassment or relations imposed by colonial soldiers towards girls in the capital. Inflation did not help. Everything pushed an artist of the caliber of this genius to permeate his music of this bitterness supported by the memory of ancient times, times of freedom. With his father, then a musician at the fallen royal court, his prospects are annoyed. From the first broadcasts, ” Diso Lalana “is successful with the Tananarivian youth. The music of Andrianary Ratianarivo, without shaking up the modes of convention of the time, sounded more “pop», Drawn from the royal and warriors that his father often played. However, the latter’s influence has greatly enriched the creativity of his son. The son, who preferred the piano, broader and minimalist. A very good guitarist too, he swore to compose his songs in Malagasy, his way of proclaiming his patriotism. His lyricism at “Bà Gasy“, Translated who may, reached his height in the 1940s.”Diso Lalana ” hoop “able to 5/7According to Fenomanana Ravonininarivo, specialist and professor of Bà Gasy on piano, with a pronounced use of the “apatra“, Or aside. “”Andrianary Ratianarivo knew how to read music theory, he did prices by correspondence“Adds Tantely Ramaromiants, another specialist in the musical genre. “”Its particularity is to distill classical music in his works“Adds the piano teacher. Add to that “bluesTypical of traditional Malagasy music. From then on, jazz, classic, terroir… almost resonate in this title of disappointed love. Dare to tackle the walls of the building erected by the purists of that time, it had to be done. As a soloist for women, “Diso Lalana“Expresses an introspective bitterness of a young person whose petticoat was”kit»Earlier than expected by a baratineur, a«Mamba ” even a “VoayIn the current young speaking. Certainly, the Tananarivians already knew how to have fun in the time of Andrianary Ratianarivo. This “awkwardnessEasy is beautifully metaphorized in the words: “ny ny ” matokià ‘ka latsa-dambaNot to explain in detail to sensitive souls. The monologue of texts underlines the classic influence and the opera as much. After sorrow, the young duped asked love to leave her heart in her sleep. The ultimate decision. Thus would have erected the foundations of feminism in Madagascar.