MSS Closing Down

Today is a sad day because Mauritius Sun Sound is shutting down. The reason for this decision is due to the fact that this blog was created with the love for the Mauritian culture and people. However the level of participation has been very low both in terms of comments to our posts and the number of people joining our network. We did not ask for money or anything materialistic, we even opt out advertising on the page, all we wanted was to know how you the readers felt about our work, that took a lot of research and dedication to complete, but so far we have had no participation at all.
Our aim was to keep the Mauritian culture alive in this time of confusion where our culture is fading away in the light of technological globalisation, misinformation and acceptance about our past, but the Mauritian people again refuse education and prefer to remain ignorant.
In order to change things history taught us that it wasn't enough to sit at home comfortable and expect change to happen but instead get involved, putting yourself in the frontline just like we doing now to guarantee a better future for the generations to come.

We wish Mauritius and Mauritians the best of luck, when actually this blog will be taken down is yet to be confirmed.

Best Regards,

MSS Staff

P.S: “The future depends on what you do today.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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Kaya & Racintatan - Racin Pé Brilé

Released in the mid-eighties this is the original recording of Kaya's most popular song. This song refers to the lack of identify of Mauritians more precisely the Creoles that are often obsessed with the European culture rather than focusing on their own cultural background. Kaya is trying to empower his community by denouncing the lack of vision for the future by singing "amizé aster taler to pu sofer" which means you can have fun now but later you will struggle which refers the community drinking and fun culture which as a consequence affect the entire family life and progression of the community. This song marks the beginning of a change in the Mauritian musical landscape which before Kaya never existed. Mauritians have never heard such powerful lyrics as Sega traditional songs are often based on theme with a sense of humour. This trend of using music to give a message known as "messaz" is now used by the most popular artists on the island in their music like Blakkayo, Dager Killa and others.

Kaya artwork called Racin Pé Brilé

This was submitted by an anonymous artist.

Mauritius Independence Day 2011

Today Mauritius celebrate  its 43rd anniversary of independence.

Rosabelle Boswell, Le Malaise Creole: Ethnic Identity In Mauritius

ROSABELLE BOSWELL, Le Malaise Creole: ethnic identity in Mauritius. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2006.

Le malaise Creole (the Creole malaise) refers to the persistence of poverty, social problems and political marginalization amongst Creoles of mixed, African or Malagasy descent, who comprise 29 per cent of the Mauritian population (the remainder is 66 per cent Indo-, 3 per cent Sino-, and 2 per cent Franco-Mauritian). Boswell examines four established (and interdependent) interpretations of the phenomenon through the lens of her ethnographic research amongst Creoles in Mauritius. In the first interpretation, le malaise Creole is seen as a consequence of dispossession and physical and psychological violence under slavery, which had a fragmenting impact upon identity, solidarity and economy (although, as Boswell goes on to argue, this fails to account for the continuing Creole evocation of both primordial and hybrid identities). In the second interpretation, le malaise Creole is a social pathology resulting from the lack of a pre-existing, underlying Creole identity (as Boswell points out, this does not explain the existence of other, more positive Creole responses to oppression). Third, Boswell outlines the claim that the African heritage and hybridity of Creoles (rather than their experiences of colonialism and slavery per se) has resulted in their destructive tendencies (a primordialist and essentialist claim that Boswell is quick to refute). Finally, Boswell outlines the suggestion that le malaise Creole is a concept deployed by Creole political and socio-cultural groups to homogenize and mobilize Creoles (she notes that this view fails to recognize the continuing impact of slavery on Creoles' access to resources in Mauritius).

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Kaya & Racinetatan - Lam Sacrifice

Rare video from the King of Seggae

Damien Elisa - Des Truf D'esclavage

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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Kaya & Racine Tatane - Kiltir

This song is one Kaya’s masterpiece where he delivers powerful lyrics urging the creoles people to look at Africa for inspiration as a cure against the so called “malaise creoles” which is a lack of identity from the black and the mix population. This identity crisis which has created confusion and division amongst the Mauritian people is seen as a cancer that creoles has inherited from slavery which is spreading on the island in the eyes of Kaya and the only remedy is through a greater understanding of the African History. This is a rebellion song and the band does a good job in providing this hypnothic riddim in true Seggae style. Ethiopia here is seen as the sacred land once run by King Solomon and Queen Sheba and their direct descendant Haile Selassie described here as the savior against Babylon. In this song he rejects the Sega dance and songs seen as a product of slavery and urge creoles people to have more belief and self esteem about their heritage as creoles once came from a land of kings and queens.




P.S: Only 70 people signed up for the Kaya petition for comemoration. Your vote can make a difference please sign up today. Also I would like to apologise for not posting this on Kaya 12th anniversary on the 21 Feb hence why i have decided to give out a track.


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UPDATE: SINCE SOMEONE TOOK TIME TO GET THIS SONG REMOVED HERE IS THE VIDEO.

P.S. NOTE THAT WE DIDN'T CREATE THIS VIDEO AND THE CONTENT ON YOU TUBE DOESN'T REFLET OUR OPINION ON THIS SUBJECT.

MBC envi arret Bonnto Klip

Tou bann fans Bonnto: Nou fin kumans enn petisyon pou remet Bonnto lor MBC. Nou ti pou appresye zot soutien. Envoy sa tou zot bann kamwad !!


http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bonnto/

R.I.P Georges Milates, he passed away last week and MSS would like to salute him. Bless

MAKE KAYA HISTORY

TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF MAURITIUS - MAKE KAYA HISTORY!!

For reasons obviously rooted in Mauritian culture but which might fade away if not properly watered and duly taken care of, we tend to consider that it is of paramount importance to leave a mark of Kaya's existence and of his contribution to Mauritian musical culture by sealing the latter in his native ground, namely Roche-Bois.

We would like the Government of Mauritius to provide the Mauritian Community with procedural platform and appropriate administrative means and path in order to establish a commemorative plaque in Kaya's honour.

February 1999 has impacted on Mauritius history and we are sure that this initiative will have a positive and welcoming response in the Mauritian society and that it will in fine only be valuing our cultural patrimony.


Follow link to sign up

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/make-kaya-history/