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Article: D. Tarika.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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The Malagasy like to dance: they dance with the living; they dance with the dead. Music provides a thread that links the quick to the spirits and it is this, the sense that sound is integral to life, that Tarika's D and Njava's Vetse convey. `D' even stands for `dihy', the island's word for dance; `Vetse', on the other hand, means to share.
On the surface, both Tarika and Njava share a lot: the skittering melodies played out by highly-strung guitar and marovany; the unmistakable East African ...