Monday, 22 February 2010

music from tanzania (tamaris)

Some lingala from, I think, Tanzania. But it could be from DRC, given that's where they speak Lingala. A bit cheesey sounding on first listen, but great to dance to, preferably with a Kilimanjaro beer in your hand. I bought this from a dusty market stall in Arusha. Strangely, both songs contain the same weird mambo chant, about two thirds through. both have a very typical lingala song structure, with hypnoitic loopic guitar lines. Focus on that.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Luciana is Congolese singer Luciana Demingongo. These 2 songs also appear on the 1993 album of his band, "La Nouvelle Generation de la Republic Democratique". His discography (in Japanese) is here:
http://www.geocities.jp/earthworks1972/lingala/disco/nouvelle.htm

http://www.afromix.org/html/musique/artistes/nouvelle-generation/zipompa-pompa.en.html