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haveyouheardthisband · 4 months

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#Soukous #Congolese Rumba #1970s #1980s #poll

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haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll · 5 months

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Tracklist:

The Boy In the Bubble • Graceland • I Know What I Know • Gumboots • Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes • You Can Call Me Al • Under African Skies • Homeless • Crazy Love, Vol. II • That Was Your Mother • All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints

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#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: paul simon #language: english #decade: 1980s #Pop Rock #Singer-Songwriter #Mbaqanga #Mbube #Zydeco #Soukous #Isicathamiya

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inexplicably-spookified · 4 months

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#soukous #my ocs #scribblins #actually really happy with how this came out #i need to get better at interesting poses though

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soundgrammar · 5 months

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Congolese singer, songwriter, and bandleader Tabu Ley Rochereau (November 13, 1940 - November 30, 2013)

#Tabu Ley Rochereau #Congolese #soukous #rumba #world music #African music

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peninsularian · 10 months

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Traditional Congolese music meets Soukous, Baluba and Seben in a contemporary New York blend

#loboko #kanyunyi #afro beat #soukous #congo

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skatalite · 6 months

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#m #Ernesto Djédjé #soukous

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sonicandartisticsurprises · 27 days

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#Docteur nico #World #African #Africa #Congo #Soukous #bandcamp #Bandcamp

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cinnamoncee · 28 days

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#ry-co-jazz #congo #africa #soukous #world #record sleeve #discogs #1970's

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will2will2will2 · 1 month

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record rambling pt 1/whatever

this weekend i found a really neat soukous record from the ivory coast at a record store so i thought i’d share a little clip with you. african records are notoriously hard to find in good condition so be mindful of clicks and pops. that’s all part of the charm though, isn’t it?

#soukous #african music #vinyl records #record collection #i just realized i don’t have a tag set up for record stuff #my bad #will’s record rambles

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hontokana · 1 year

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Sax Matalanza - Lo Lombo Region: Congo-Kinshasa / Style: Soukous / Year: 1986 LOVED

#Sax Matalanza #Congo-Kinshasa #Soukous #1986 #LOVED

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mywifeleftme · 10 months

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85: Nyboma // Doublé doublé

Doublé doublé Nyboma 1981, Maikano

One of my local record shops has a bin of African LPs labelled “Our supplier in Benin,” which is a wonderfully specific attribution. I would love to have a Man in Belize, a Backer in Brunei. (I’d even take a Woman in Longueuil.) The owner was contacted by a record store clerk who offered an interesting proposal: the Montreal shop would send along its common-as-dirt western pop records (your Eltons, your Streisands, your James Taylors), and their Beninese counterpart would send their own equivalent local basics. A win-win, especially for slavering Afro-pop simps like myself, who get trembly at the very sight of sleeves with school picture day-quality photos of people in killer leisure suits over bright solid-coloured backgrounds with a load of text in a foreign language.

Nyboma is one of the bigger soukous stars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a songwriter and tenor singer who has been performing for over half a century. Unlike a few of the African singers in my collection, he’s easy to find info on, and even a few lyrics—in fact, 1981’s “‘Doublé doublé’” is enough of a classic that there’s a video from this decade with over 6.4 million views of cats dancing to it at a wedding like it’s “The Electric Slide”:

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When I reviewed an Empire Bakuba record a few months back, the group led by Nyboma’s frequent collaborator Pepe Kalle (that’s him introing the video above), I wrote a summary of the soukous genre for the unfamiliar that I’ll recycle here:

“A Congolese form, marked by giddy rhythms and sugarcane guitar improvisation, usually led by a charismatic vocalist who doubles as a hype man. With roots in American R&B and Cuban rumba, it’s a kind of pan-Black form of music—and yet, the guitar style is also faintly reminiscent of bluegrass, a genre whose Black roots are a bit further removed.”

Nyboma’s tenor is high enough it could easily be taken as a woman’s voice and he has a smoother touch in general than Kalle does—he’s not calling out dance moves or doing crowd work. He’s cut from the same angelic stuff as that super-clean soukous guitar tone, the part of “‘Doublé doublé’” that would give a no-dancing township pause despite the obviously [dogwhistle adjective] rhythms. The rumba roots show through pretty strongly in Nyboma’s music, too, which verges on calypso at times. The highlight of the LP is “Papy Sodolo,” a floating down the river sort of number with a languid guitar lead that makes me think of Les Paul wearing water wings.

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#Nyboma #soukous #afropop #empire bakuba #african music #music review #vinyl record #our supplier in benin #'80s music

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haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll · 2 months

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Tracklist:

Mansard Roof • Oxford Comma • A-Punk • Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa • M79 • Campus • Bryn • One (Blake's Got a New Face) • I Stand Corrected • Walcott • The Kids Don't Stand a Chance

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#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: vampire weekend #language: english #decade: 2000s #Indie Pop #Indie Rock #Chamber Pop #Soukous

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inexplicably-spookified · 1 year

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