Ziskakan

Ziskakan is a Groupe of music of the Réunion created in 1979 and whose leader is Gilbert Pounia.

Before becoming one of the headlights groups of the scene réunionnaise, Ziskakan aimed at " the valorization and propagation of the culture réunionnaise" . Also, the group begins very quickly in the denunciation of what it perceives like harmful policies imposed by Paris, to start with those of BUMIDOM. It dedicates a song in 1980 to him.

True laboratory of studies of the language and the creole culture, Ziskakan is also a musical group which, since 1983 and the exit of an double album " Péi Bato Fou" , is known and recognized by the public réunionnais but also by an increasingly large audience.

In the various concerts and recordings in studio attest carried out outside the island: New Delhi, Maurice, Seychelles, the United States, London, Brussels… With Paris, it already occurred with the Olympia.

Since its creation, the group directed by Gilbert Pounia, made it possible a great number to discover and appreciate a music with the image of the cultural diversity of the island of the Meeting: Indian musics, African percussions, creole texts….

Discography

  • Moringer , 1990.
  • insane Bato , Piros, 1991.
  • Ziskakan , Mango, 1993.
  • Soley glasé , Mercury, 1996.
  • Ral if tonkoukoun & Ti zwazo: 10 zan , Discorama, 1997.
  • 20 tan , Discorama, 1999.
  • 4 Ti Mo , Discorama; Créon; Virgin, 2001.
  • Rimayer , Créon; Virgin, 2002.
  • Banjara , 2006.

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Site of RFI music.
  • Personal site on Ziskakan.

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