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Justin Vali
Justin Vali is credited on 26 releases across 15 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1991–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
26
Pressings credited
15
Albums
4
Decades active
29
In collections
Biography
Justin Vali ranks among the greatest living players of traditional Malagasy music on the valiha, a bamboo tube zither considered the national instrument of Madagascar. He also performs on the marovany box zither of central and southern Madagascar. Vali contributed to several compilations in the late 1980s before beginning to release his own albums in 1990. In 1994 he recorded Ny Marina (The Truth) at Real World Studios under Peter Gabriel's Real World Records. In 1999 he released The Sunshine Within, a collaboration with Paddy Bush. In 2008 he collaborated with Erick Manana and other prominent Malagasy artists to record an album as the Malagasy All Stars. Vali resides in Paris and performs regularly on the international world music festival circuit, including performances on several continents with the WOMAD festival. In 2006 he was awarded the Grand Prize for Traditional Music by Société des Auteurs Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique, the French songwriters' guild.
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Credited work
26 releases · 15 albums · active 1991–2023
- Performance · 77
- Other credits · 48
Studios: Real World Studios · Sedic Studio · Antre-Prise Studio, Les Mureaux · WOMAD Festival, Venice
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Kate Bush
- The Justin Vali Trio
- Hanta
- Fenoamby
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