New Music From Congo/DRC (Zaire) on Calabash Music

Patcho Star

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:24:35 -0600

Congolese traditional soukous meets modern reggae and funk. Get your dance on with Patcho Star!

African Reggae

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:24:35 -0600

Young Babuka Band

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:24:35 -0600

THE YOUNG BAKUBA Fresh from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), The Young Bakuba is the hottest sound to hit the markets this season. Originally founded by Director Wankebulua Domingos, and

Marabi Africa

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:24:35 -0600

Marabi is the independant label created in 2002 by Christian Mousset, director of the Festival Musiques Métisses d'Angoulême in France.The festival, place of exchange and discovery, is widely opened to urban popular musics from the African Continent, Indian Ocean, the Caribbeans, America. Marabi is mainly a discographic extension of this event. On the same artistic line, the label puts upcoming artists forward as well as patrimonial leading figures. Marabi is the name given to the South African Jazz born in the townships of the thirties.

El Congo Brazza Kin

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:24:35 -0600

Rumba's two great historical figures (Wendo Kolosoy, Kinshasa's son, and Antoine Mondanda from Brazzaville on the other side of the river), the Victoria Bakolo Miziki and the Rumbanella Band (composed of young musicians) revisit in this compilation the Central African cultural heritage in a passionate and moving way.

Central Park Summerstage