The Rough Guide to Congo GoldWorld Music Network RGNET1200CD, 2008
01. Wendo Kolosoy & Henry Bowane - Marie Louise
02. Grand Kalle & L'African Jazz - Parafifi
03. Tabu Ley Rochereau & L'African Jazz - Adios Tete
04. Dr. Nico & African Fiesta - Mamu Wa Mpoy
05. Verckys & Orchestre Veve - Marcello Tozongana
06. Franco & TPOK Jazz - Azda
07. Tabu Ley Rochereau & L'Afrisa International - Nakweyi Carreau
08. Sam Mangwana - Tchimurenga Zimbabwe
09. Tabu Ley Rochereau & Mbilia Bel - Eswi Yo Wapi
10. Franco & TPOK Jazz - Mujinga
11. Papa Noel - Bon Samaritain
12. Madilu System - Biya
The inter-locked guitars, swinging horn sections and sublime vocal harmonies are what make Congolese rumba the most exciting and infectious dance music in Africa. The Rough Guide To Congo Gold picks out some of the best examples from rumba innovators that include Franco & OK Jazz, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Docteur Nico, Sam Mangwana and Madilu.
What compiler Martin Sinnock means by “gold” is what the Congolese mean by “rumba”—a relaxed, seductive, brass-tinged, pan-African groove cooler than the high-speed Parisian soukous it morphed into. On this definitive survey, guitars undulate and horns color and voices move heaven and Earth over irresistible bush-grown grooves wiser and calmer than the Cuban rhumba-with-an-h that inspired the style. Accelerating steadily away from circa-1950 godfathers Henri Bowane and Joseph Kabasele, Congo Gold respects all the greats: facile guitarist Dr. Nico, saxophonist-entrepreneur Verckys, restless vocalist-in-demand Sam Mangwana and especially matched bandleading titans Tabu Ley Rochereau, an internationalist whose suave vocal textures lifted any track they graced, and Franco Luambo, a traditionalist whose forthright guitar lines cut his competitors until he died in 1989, pretty much taking rumba with him. - Robert Christgau
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