-
-
Artists:
Rumbanella Band Album:
El Congo Brazza KinGenre:
African Pop, Rumba (Congolese)
-
Label:
Harmonia Mundi
| Title | Listen | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | El Congo (Rumbanella Band) | ||
| 2. | Marie Louise (Kolosoy & Rumbanella Band) | ||
| 3. | Masanga Djiya (Rumbanella Band) | ||
| 4. | Bounsana (Antoine Moundanda) | ||
| 5. | Naluki Motunguisi (Rumbanella Band) | ||
| 6. | Clara Badimuene (Rumbanella Band) | ||
| 7. | Wendo Likembe (Kolosoy & Moundanda) | ||
| 8. | Passi (Victoria Bakolo Miziki) | ||
| 9. | L'age et l'amour (Rumbanella Band) | ||
| 10. | Kellya (Rumbanella Bad) | ||
| 11. | Kellya (Rumbanella Band) | ||
| 12. | Sey-sey (Rumbanella Bad) | ||
| 13. | Sey-Sey (Rumbanella Band) | ||
| 14. | Ngalula (Rumbanella Bad) | ||
| 15. | Ngalula (Rumbanella Band) | ||
| 16. | Botiakitembe (Kolosoy & Miziki) | ||
| 17. | Africa Mokili Mobimba (Rumbanella Band) | ||
|
Review:
"In March, 2002, surviving pioneers of Africa's most beloved dance music--Congolese rumba--came together in a Kinshasa recording studio to recapture the glorious, sensuous music of their collective past. The setting was humble, and there were no international filmmakers or foreign pop stars on hand. But in its way, this session was as historic, and as sweet and swinging, as the famous Buena Vista Social Club gathering in Havana, Cuba, a few years earlier. In the 1950s, when Congolese rumba came of age, Cuban music was an important model, but the tangling, cyclic guitar lines and mellifluous vocal harmonies sung mostly in Lingala quickly came to define a sound that will be forever identified with this city on the banks of the Congo River. So call it the Kinshasa Social Club, or just call it a long overdue rumba reunion. The music on El Congo, Rumba Congolaise (Marabi) offers a rare glimpse into one of the most potent and influential chapters in modern African music." — CalabashMusic.com |
