With Panik dan bazis Edision Barlizour’s second photo book after L’Absence by Jean-Paul Mussoodee on the confined island of Mauritius. Here, we no longer show the emptiness of the streets, but the overcrowding. –the vibrant blossoming of a Mauritian urban culture that, until then, had been largely ignored… This handsome, squared-off book recounts 33 years in the life of the bad boys of Plaisance, founders of Otentikk Street Brothers, ex-STC. Dominique Bellier
When he embarked on writing Panik dan bazStephan Rezannah knew that he wasn’t simply writing a bio of a raggamuffin band, but describing THE OSB phenomenon, which embodies the affirmation of Mauritian urban culture. This group has been the centrifugal force, uniting and uniting, with its language, its dances, its visual codes and graffiti, its brand and its Real GhettoBusiness, Live N Direk Entertainment.
This200-page work brings together the texts of numerous contributors, some of them involved in the adventure, others fascinated by what it still represents today. The key figures are listed: the founders, those who passed through and those who played a decisive role, such as Georges Corette, alias Kolonel, the mentor who pushed them to surpass themselves on their 3e album, Noukkila.
The book’s title is that of a hit, whose words Blakkayo launched on the 3e movement of the 11e sonata, the ” Turkish March “…a creative challenge launched by the Kolonel! In 2001, this ragga kreol song denounced the ills that plague Mauritian society today more than ever. We’re still dancing to it… so when can we expect a performance of Panik Dan Baz in Plaisance , where the band hasn’t played since 1995 ? It’s about time that changed… vremem !
Information at noubiye.com, Loba Bookshop or 5842 8181.
