VA - Soul Sega Sa! Indian Ocean Segas From The 70's (2016)

Sega music is rooted in the musical underground of slaves arriving from Africa and Madagascar on the shores of Mauritius, Réunion and the Seychelles, in the south-western corner of the Indian Ocean, during the seventeenth century. Over time this Creole culture adopted Western instruments and traditional European forms like the quadrille and waltz, even as it articulated the cultural impact of hired workers from India. In the modern era, the gramophone brought all kinds of music to the mix, and violins and accordions were replaced by electric guitars, drums and keyboards, as psychedelic synths, fuzz and elastic bass lines re-cast the traditional polyrhythms of drums, ravannes, bongos, claves, triangles and maracas. Record production boomed, hundreds of small labels sprang up...