Kozé - Festival international Nuits d'Afrique 2026
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🇷🇪 En créole réunionnais, kozé signifie “parler, communiquer”. L’ambition du groupe est de partager le folklore de son île. 100 % Maloya, avec ses roulèr, kayamb, pikèr et sati qui donnent le tempo, la musique de Kozé, Syli de bronze de la musique du monde 2025, est aussi sauvage et rafraîchissante que l’océan, aussi dense et précieuse que la forêt, aussi rugueuse et impétueuse que le volcan. Inscrit sur la liste du Patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’humanité depuis 2009, mémoire métissée des esclaves du passé, devenu hymne contestataire, le Maloya, dont l’aura est quasi sacrée, est un chant, une musique, une danse… une identité.
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🇷🇪 In Réunion Creole, “kozé” means “to chat, to communicate.” The group’s aim is to share their island’s folk traditions. With rouleur, kayamb, piqueur and sati instruments setting the tempo, the music of Kozé—winners of Syli Bronze de la musique du monde in 2025—is as wild and refreshing as the ocean, as dense and precious as the forest, as rugged and impetuous as a volcano and 100% Maloya. Listed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2009, Mayola, with its almost sacred aura, harks back to the time of slavery and later became a kind of protest anthem: a song, a music, a dance… an identity.
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🇷🇪 In Réunion Creole, “kozé” means “to chat, to communicate.” The group’s aim is to share their island’s folk traditions. With rouleur, kayamb, piqueur and sati instruments setting the tempo, the music of Kozé—winners of Syli Bronze de la musique du monde in 2025—is as wild and refreshing as the ocean, as dense and precious as the forest, as rugged and impetuous as a volcano and 100% Maloya. Listed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2009, Mayola, with its almost sacred aura, harks back to the time of slavery and later became a kind of protest anthem: a song, a music, a dance… an identity.
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Club Balattou Officiel, 4372 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2W 1Z5, Canada, Montreal
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