Lang'la

\"Lang’la\" is a collaborative track by American guitarist and ethnomusicologist Bob Brozman and Réunionese musician René Lacaille. The piece appears as the sixteenth track on the live album Festival d’été de Québec 2001, released posthumously on July 15, 2021 under the Bell label. The recording captures a performance from the 2001 edition of the Festival d’été de Québec, though the exact performance date within the festival remains undocumented.

The track runs for 3 minutes and 40 seconds and exemplifies the fusion of Brozman’s slide guitar techniques with Lacaille’s maloya-inflected compositions. Maloya, a traditional music style from Réunion, often incorporates percussive rhythms and Creole vocal traditions, though \"Lang’la\" is instrumental. The album format is a compact disc (CD), and the release compiles selections from the festival’s world music lineup.

Brozman and Lacaille frequently collaborated in the late 1990s and early 2000s, blending blues, folk, and Indian Ocean musical traditions. This track reflects their shared exploration of cross-cultural guitar work, with Brozman contributing slide and resonator guitar elements while Lacaille provided rhythmic and melodic foundations on acoustic guitar. No additional session musicians or producers are credited for this specific recording.

The 2021 release of Festival d’été de Québec 2001 serves as an archival document of the festival’s programming, though detailed liner notes or track-by-track annotations are not widely available. The album’s distribution was limited, and no subsequent reissues or digital expansions have been confirmed. Brozman passed away in 2013, making this one of the last officially released recordings featuring his collaboration with Lacaille.