The traditional/folk music of New Caledonia features vocal chants and instruments like log drums. Modern musicians from New Caledonia have adopted guitars and keyboards and have embraced global genres like rock and reggae. Still, when they go back to their roots, they find those roots in the percussion and chants of their Melanesian forefathers. As the New Caledonian independence movement rose in the mid 1980s, so rose a genre known as “kaneka,” which fuses the traditional music of the indigenous New Caledonian people with global world pop. Let’s enjoy some Kaneka — “Waipeipeigu” by Gurejele.
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