Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: BUDA860339
- Format: CD
- UPC: 3341348603391
- Street Date: 04/19/19
- PreBook Date: 03/15/19
- Label: Buda Musique »
- Genre: World
- Run Time: 71:00 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 1960
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
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Nostalgique Kongo
The transplantation of Afro-Cuban rumba to Congo is one of the most important events in the history of African music.
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On both banks of the Congo, the transplanting of the Cuban rumba took place in the interwar period, thanks to the passage in the ports of West Africa of cargo ships coming from the Caribbean. This urban dance music, born at the end of the 1930s, was destined to resonate throughout Africa in Bantu languages such as Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo and Douala.
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International trade has resulted in many wonderful (and some not-so-wonderful) things over the past several centuries, but surely one outcome that we can all agree to be grateful for is Congolese rumba. Emerging in the late 1930s in the Brazzaville/Kinshasa area, the development of this form of urban dance music was sparked by the interaction of Congolese port workers and sailors from the Caribbean, especially Cuba. A commercial music industry was coming into its own at the same time, and the result was an expansion of musical styles and a flood of recordings, 23 of which are gathered here on this excellent collection. The sound quality is better than one might reasonably expect, and the songs themselves are a consistent delight.
—Rick Andersen, CD HotList
