Born in 1968 in Tongobory, in southern Madagascar, Damily is one of the pioneers and most important ambassadors of tsapiky — the effervescent music that emerged in Toliara in the 1980s, at the crossroads of rock, traditional rituals, and collective trance. More than a style, tsapiky is a context: that of the mandriampototsy, village ceremonies lasting days and nights, blending healing, possession, and ancestral celebration. Musicians play without interruption, carried by the energy of the community. It is in this crucible that Damily forged his art: a handmade guitar, makeshift amplifiers, a saturated, tense, urgent sound — music born of dust, heat, and necessity. It is in this spirit that Fanjiry was born. After the ecstatic Fihisa sessions — recorded in the Malagasy bush under a cyclone — Damily returns to a more intimate approach: a one-to-one dialogue with his guitar. He composes, explores, rearranges, and seeks to “fill the sonic space” differently.
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