The concert of the year in the city of the Mille, with Erick Manana and Joël Rabesolo assisted by Benny, Nini and Kôlibera at CC Esc Antanimena on Saturday. The majesty of the terroir meets jazz, blues and rock.
The poster already gave way to an imagination of all musical possibilities. Then see Erick Manana and Joël Rabesolo on the same scene at CC Esca Antanimena on Saturday afternoon live, it is the powerful, sincere spliff, living with a propensity to tape any experienced music lover in his seat. “” I think we didn’t really have time to make big rehearsals “Says Joël Rabesolo behind the scenes, the malicious and smiling look. It didn’t feel on stage. No hiccups, only this feeling of controlled intoxication, buried in the “mystical” chills of the blues, of the Capella genres of the Malagasy Deep South, of the ” antsa »Sakalava… Music of the soul. The public is caught up despite mini Larsens to revise, few to discourage it. The meeting of the two “guitar-heroes” takes on its first meaning on a temporal reading. Meeting of two generations. Surely, Joël Rabesolo still played soldiers’ figurines when Erick Manana already crisscrossed the country with his original group, Lôlô Sy Ny Tariny, in the 1970s. Folk printed his law on musical trends in central Madagascar, “ area »Geographical and cultural to the greatest number of music lovers. Rock and its pendants, jazz, “ Variety with synthesizer Taken more space in the audio-visual landscape. When become an adult, Joël Rabesolo asserted himself thanks to a jazz competition, this kind already had its place and a major festival. Hence this juggling Saturday at the CC Esca of electric guitar with soft/jazz soft/jazz tones and acoustic guitar on titles such as ” Zoke “,” Karabato “A feverish solo if it is, without being mistaken, in” midday guitar “,” Maloya “… Suddenly,” Voninkazo adaladala »Take a natural folk-pop and jazz/rock rejuvenation cure on the edges. The floating solo of Joël Rabesolo causes a rustic charm chouia to the song but enriches it in complexity and volume. Supported by the immense Erick Manana and his vocal tessituration. The feeling is undoubtedly similar to that of arriving at the top of Imarivolanitra after an exhausting walk, of being welcomed by an enveloping, indomitable wind and a breathtaking endless landscape. Unique moment, suspended. “Erick Manana, the Mahaleo and others, there is no one who makes their kind of music anymore … With Erick Manana, I still find the way of singing of yesteryear, theAngolaI have no technical terms to say it but that’s it, theAngola », Parefully recognizes Joël Rabesolo. Erick Manana also raised on stage, Benny, his acolyte at Lôlô Sy Ny Tariny, Nini and Kôlibera to sing the titles of Razilinah and Feo Gasy. The room, still leaning, sang, shouted, exulted … Dama, of the Mahaleo group, was waiting for a niche in the college garden, not far from the generator because of the untimely load shedding, a reality which speaks volumes on the country’s level of development. Erick Manana and Joël Rabesolo, in the top 3 of the concert of the year 2025 in Tananarive.
Maminirina Rado
