The life of Franco Luambo, one of the kings of Rhumba was exhilarating. Rather, beyond the rich date of his musical accolades is the webbed truth about his entanglement with the politics of DRC Congo, ...
African music traveled to the New World with slavery, only to return to Africa in the 1930’s and 40’s via 78 rpm phonograph records, broadcast by Radio Congo Belge in Léopoldville (now Kinshasha), ...
It’s just after 8pm on a warm Saturday night and the heavy sound of guitars lightens up the atmosphere inside the serene setting of the Tamambo Restaurant in Karen. The pulsating beat of “Tres Impoli” ...
During the 1980’s, a lifetime’s worth of wonderful live African music performances took place in Los Angeles. African music filled KCRW's airwaves and local print media, and it seemed like a group ...
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The other day I stumbled across my copy of Zaïre-Ghana (RetroAfric), a sparkling 1993 CD collecting tracks that the remarkable Congolese band Zaïko Langa-Langa cut in 1976. I’ve been a fan of ...
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