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Masanka Sankayi and Kasai Allstars feat. Mutumilaya: “Wu Muluendu”
From the album Congotronics 2: Buzz’N’Rumble from the Urb’N’Jungle (2005)
Noisy, funky, lovely sounds from the ”electro-traditional” music scene of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was hooked as soon as I heard the amazingly synth-like timbre of the overdriven electric likembe, “with its pickups made of copper telephone wire wound around crushed car alternator magnets.” The Congotronics series (comprising three releases at the time of this writing) and its enthusiastic reception by American listeners have been intelligently discussed by Mike Powell at Stylus.
Played 73 time(s).
December 18, 2009, 1:03pm
