The keyboardist and armonica of Kaya and Cassiya, Damien's music has been evolving for a very long time, which has been a type of escapism for the artist from the capitalistic world. Damien is known for his musical production, as he is involved at all levels of creativity in his music and is followed by the group Kiohki. The artist is one of the island’s most underrated talent that often is misunderstood by the locals due to his unconventional approach to music. He records live sounds from the Mauritian natural landscape, this could be a bird tweeting, the water running down the river and blends it into his music. He also scats words that has no real meaning just to fit the melody, which sometime has caused controversy amongst the local critics. However the artist is not bothered as this is the true essence of his music and he has found followers from both a small group of world/jazz music lovers on the island and abroad including Reunion Island, France and other European countries.
Des Truf D’esclavage taken from the critically acclaimed album N-Mots which is also responsible for putting Mauritius on the map of World Music worldwide. Des Truf d'esclavage is a lovely ballad with innocent but powerful lyrics regarding the creoles slave past that effects is still echoing in the present in the form of racism and other type of injustice.
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