Acclaimed as one of Congo's greatest female singers, Tshala Muana over four decades in the business has emerged as the internati...

Footballer, guitarist and composer of many of the most memorable songs in Congolese music, Mayaula Mayoni (1946-2010) has often been ...

I love this album cover! I love the music on the album! The group "Le Peuple" had its origins in a split from the legen...

As promised in an earlier post , here are Volumes 5 and 6 of the series Rochereau Vols. 1-8 , released by Disco Stock in Abidjan in 1982...

Happy New Year! Bonne Année ! And here with us to celebrate the new year are Lokassa Ya M'Bongo, Sam Mangwana and the African All...

Théo Blaise Kounkou is one of those African musicians who, while building substantial careers and achieving popularity throughout Afr...

No sooner had I posted Likembe 's last offering then I realized that I had another, similar pressing. Orchestres Kamale et Kiam ...

Today's post covers some old ground - classic orchestras from the stable of wunderkind Kiamwuangana Mateta, aka "Verckys,...

Just about everyone in the United States who started collecting African music in the 1970s and '80s is familiar with the producti...

Augustin Kouassi is an Ivorian musician who's apparently been around the block a few times. Discogs lists a couple of LPs by his ban...

A track from Ivory Coast's Gueatan System was featured on the 1993 release Super Guitar Soukous (Hemisphere 7243 8 28188), a compi...

I've written in this space several times of my admiration for Souzy Kasseya , the brilliant Congolese session guitarist who score...

Les Officiers of African Music were a "super-group" formed in the 1980s by Congolese musicians (mainly from the Brazzaville...

I was all ready to post today's selection - Baba Gaston's wonderful 1983 release  Condition Bi-Msum (ASL ASLP 971) - when I re...

It's easy to think of Gaby Lita Bembo as the Wild Man of '70s and '80s Zaïre/Congo music - his unrestained stage antics m...

Here's another classic from the last "Golden Age" of Congo music, the 1980s! Wuta Mayi is best known as a member of two...

Congolese musician Pablo Lubadika Porthos began his career with several local assemblages in the 1970s, including Kin-Bantou, Lovy du Z...

Taking care of some unfinished business today. . . Many thanks to Ken Chijar Ekezie, who provides us with Part Two of the exceedingly ra...

Note: This post was updated and corrected on July 3, 2012. The rambunctious saxophone stylings of Kiamwuangana Mateta "Verckys...