After decades spent shaping the sound of southern Madagascar, Damily returns with Fanjiry, his most intimate and focused record to date. Recorded and mixed in just three days at Studio Black Box with analog sound engineer Peter Deimel, Fanjiry reduces tsapiky to its essence: a single guitar and a single heartbeat.
…At a time when truth and authenticity in music seem more elusive than ever, this album feels like a gift. Long considered a central figure in southwest Madagascar’s tsapiky tradition, Damily here retreats from the hurtling speed and intoxicating trance of the sound he helped create – and popularise both within the Indian Ocean island and beyond – and, like a sonic alchemist, distils it into something that offers solace to all within earshot.

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