Cape Verde: Aurus at the Atlantic Music Expo festival
From one island to another, from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic, Aurus knew how to transmit his music to the public of Praia.
© Guillaume Thibault / RFI
Text by: Guillaume Thibault
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The 8th edition of the Atlantic Music Expo continues in Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, with free concerts taking place in the streets of the plateau, downtown Praia.
Meeting with Aurus, singer, author, composer from Reunion Island.
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With our special correspondent in Praia, Guillaume Thibault
It's a hell of a voice and a hell of a character: Aurus on stage, Bastien Picot in the civil state, an artist with all the senses open.
Lover of languages, sounds, the world.
Member of the great family of Maloya musicians, this music was once sung by slaves, like a mixed dish.
Aurus has decided to play it his way.
“
I like to mix a little traditional instruments with a little more electro sounds.
Mix English and Creole.
For me, it speaks to me, it makes sense.
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Aurus, “
this sound of rolling that leads to trance
”
Grandson of Grandpa Picot, member of the Pépés 400 group, Aurus grew up surrounded by music, a life punctuated by the Réunion drum, the roulèr: "
This sound of the roulèr is like a heartbeat that brings trance…
”
In his songs, Aurus likes to question, to play with words like in
The Well
.
Through the metaphor of the well, the singer questions our relationship to the past.
“
If you get lost, if you fall into this well, it can also become a prison, you start polluting this water yourself.
It's a piece that talks about toxic relationships, be they friendly, romantic, family or other… And which somewhat raises the question of knowing what has been will no longer be.
You also have to move on, to lose your life, to fight to try to find something that will no longer be.
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