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,...

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

More Congo classics via Nigeria here! Music From Zaïre Vol. 3 (Soundpoint SOP 041, 1977) opens with "Ngalula Marthe" by Or...

Priscilla tells me that in the 1970s, when she was a girl in Awo-Omamma, Nigeria, the family used to sit around the short-wave radio almo...