Ann O'Aro, by Ann O'Aro

Ann O'Aro

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dabowm Breathtaking! I am new to the music of Réunion called Maloya, my French helps, but Ann O'Aro's music speaks, as Ornette once said, 'in all languages'. Also, it's a perfectly-sequenced, marvelously-recorded album –– a master class for engineers in how best to capture a singer's voice ... the stereo field is so well constructed, placing Ann O'Aro just in front of, but WITH the other singers –– the sparse instrumentation is masterful. I doubt I will hear a BETTER album, in any genre, this year.
Favorite track: Lo Shien.

kickedabearisafan It's minimal, it's beautiful, it absolutely bangs. My favourite record right now. Favorite track: Zardin.

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1.	Lo lor kapé 04:47	buy track
2.	Dann Fon Laba 02:41	buy track
3.	Lo Shien 03:54	buy track
4.	K'm out ka 03:28	buy track
5.	Kap Kap 03:50	buy track
6.	Kamayang 04:53	buy track
7.	Zwazo 04:02	buy track
8.	Oktob 04:30	buy track
9.	Zardin 04:25	buy track
10.	Le corps conquis (DIGITAL ONLY) 03:32	buy track
11.	Zantray (DIGITAL ONLY) 04:05	buy track
12.	Valval rouz (DIGITAL ONLY) 03:47	buy track

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"A powerful album spreading a universal message" (Les Inrocks)

"A voice capable of assailing or caressing, a visceral writing, a musicality and an uncommon strength of interpretation. This is what could summarize the flayed blues of Ann O'aro from Reunion Island. Her first album [is] a true poetic manifesto of the intimate". (Pan African Music)

Ann O'aro loves everything that touches the movement of the body, the rhythms and the voice: "I come from martial arts and music, before choosing maloya to sing about intimate and taboo subjects". Her wild writing is impregnated with accidental languages or linguistic tics: a poetic fulmination connected to insular taboos and strong emotions, sexual violence, incest and love passion. As in Kap Kap, one of her songs written in the Creole of Reunion, her native island. A raw and scathing fonnkér that describes the embrace of an incestuous father, which embraces the madness and violence of a criminal impulse in all its banal savagery: "Amoin, marmay, bonom, lo lou, tousala ansanm, mi mor pour rash aou in kri, kan mêm sa pal amour / I the child, the man, the wolf, all at once, I die to wring a cry out of you, with claws, with tail, even if it is not a cry of love." And Ann's song springs forth. A song that plunges into reality and is not afraid of the shadows. "Ann O'aro", first eponymous album (Produced by Philippe Conrath) Cobalt / BUDA Musique

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released January 15, 2019

Ann O'Aro : singing
Jean-Didier Hoareau : kayanm, rouler, sati, choir
Willy Paitre : roll, choir
Julien Rousseau : trumpet, euphonium
Fanny Ménégoz : flutes, piccolo

Lyrics and music : Ann O'aro (Anne-Gaëlle Hoarau)
Except
ZWAZO : lyrics Ann O'aro, music Ann O'aro and Fanny Ménégoz
ZARDIN and LO SHIEN : lyrics Ann O'aro, music Ann O'aro, Fanny Ménégoz and Julien Rousseau

Recorded at EMA studio in St Leu (Reunion Island) by Brice Nauroy
Except Zwazo, Zardin and Lo Shien recorded at Music Unit studio in Montreuil by Pierre Luzy
Mixed by Brice Nauroy at Kobol studio, Le Port (Reunion Island)

Photo : Florence Le Guyon

Produced by Philippe CONRATH in 2018 for Cobalt
P & C Buda Musique 2019 Under exclusive license from Cobalt

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Ann O'Aro Réunion

Ann O'Aro is from the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. She uses her music, poetry and dance to confront her troubled upbringing and transform her personal pain into a universal message of empowerment, underpinned by traditional Maloya rhythms

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