Saturday, January 26, 2013

Zaiko Langa Langa: Bio & Discography

Source: myfreesound

The beginning of the 1970s was an important milestone in the cultural history of the country then known as Congo-Kinshasa. Exactly a decade had passed since independence from Belgium - a turbulent period in which the vast fledgling state had endured civil war, international intrigue, coups and assassinations. Parallel with the images of confusion and horror, however, Kinshasa had established an identity as a city of joy and delight, Kin Kiesse, and was recognised throughout Africa as the capital of Congolese rumba.





                                                               


Nono gets to a tempo that blows it out of the park:

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