Anniversari - Massilia Sound System (Vinyl)

Anniversari - Massilia Sound System - 1984/2024 album 40 ans (Vinyl)

Anniversary album to celebrate 40 years in the music business!
On Sunday, May 20, 1984, Massilia Sound System's first public appearance  Massilia Sound System. What followed was 40 years of uninterrupted activity  all over France and the world. 40 years marked by 17 albums and a multitude of concerts.
In 2022 and 2023, Manivette Records has invited Massilia to re-record twenty of their greatest classics, chosen from the full breadth of their their career. These twenty songs and their instrumental are available in the form of two 45 rpm vinyl box sets released on the Ciotaden label.
In 2024, ten of these songs are included on an anniversary album celebrating forty years of an extraordinary musical adventure. As there anniversary without a present, the album contains a bonus of four previously unreleased tracks.

Label Manivette Records, Baco Distribution.
S. Attard, D. Danger, L. Garibaldi, G. Kayalik, R. Mazzarino, F. Ridel (c) Les Editions du Gabian.

The Anniversari album is available on vinyl, CD digipack or audio cassette (tape).

The band:

Massilia Sound System celebrates as many years marked by a desire to confront points of view, bring people together and mix styles. Massilia Sound System sings of Marseille, the party, love, but also its anger and struggles. Singing in French and Occitan, the group uses these two assets as multiple possibilities. The langue d'oc, almost a thousand years old, is practiced not as a regionalist confinement, but as a genuine space of freedom, a creative tool with infinite possibilities, just as reggae music is, so we've come full circle. In these troubled times of division, community withdrawal and fear, Massilia Sound System once again aims, beyond the music and festive spirit it naturally exudes, to have a function, to be like a tool in the service of a cause (or several): that of awareness, not only political, but also of living together, tolerance and openness to the world, like their city, "Massilia", a port that has welcomed all the cultures of the Mediterranean and beyond for over 2600 years.
Marseille, Massilia, a city, a symbol, a struggle, a resistance, a hope, a look, a love. It's all these things at once. The Massilia Sound System is also all of these things combined in one group: 3 MCs to take the microphone, with 3 voices, 3 very distinct sensibilities (each of which can also be found in their parallel projects): Papet J (aka Jali), Gari Grèu and Moussu T (aka Tatou), accompanied by talented musicians: DJ Kayalik on turntables, Blu on electric guitar and Janvié on keyboards. Massilia Sound System is the sound of Marseille! It's sunny and engrossing, loud and smells of aniseed... Si leva mai la cançon, si tout va mal, que tout semble perdu, la chanson se lèvera encore... And Massilia will be there to sing it.

Titles:

Face Aïoli   
A1        Lo Òai totjorn - 3’42
A2        Joyeux voyous (renew) - 3’25
A3        Canon es canon (renew) - 3’34
A4        Qu'elle est bleue - 4’29
A5        Pas d'arrangement (renew) - 3’19

Face Boulégan    
B1        L'eau et le Gaz - 3’23
B2        Cròniq (renew) - 4’03
B3        Frit Confit - 3’55
B4        3 MCs sur la version (remix) - 3’32
B5        A cavalòt - 3’59

Maxi 45T Bonus    
C1        M. Spock - 3’50
C2        Janvié special blend - 4’10
D1        Aïolilili party - 3’49
D2        Blu side medley - 3’09

© 2021-2023 Les Éditions du Gabian • Production : Manivette Records

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