Madagascar Slim

Today’s slant continues to be put on Malagasy music by guitar and valiha (bamboo zither) participant and vocalist Madagascar Thin (created Randriamananjara Radofa Besata Jean Longin). As similarly influenced by B.B. Ruler and Jimi Hendrix because the music of his homeland, Slim has generated his own specific sound. As the Toronto Celebrity praised him for his “exclusive playing design,” Roots Globe had written, “(Slim’s) wave-like design builds slowly right into a crescendo, permitting the music to fully capture other sounds on the way — there’s blues, reggae, R&B crossover and equipment from eastern and southern Africa.” Younger brother of the guitarist, Slim secretly trained himself to try out on his brother’s device. His early desire for music was further piqued when he noticed a documenting of Jimi Hendrix playing “Hey, Joe.” Awe-struck with what he noticed, he spent hours teaching himself to duplicate Hendrix’s single. A documenting by B.B. Ruler steered him for the more direct type of the blues. Ultimately delivered by his parents to review accounting at Seneca University in Toronto in 1979, Slim quickly attracted attention along with his instrumental skills. The following yr, he became a founding person in a French Canadian folk ensemble, La Ridiane.