876623008057

Kinshasa 1978

Various Artists

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Format: 2LP

Cat No: CRAM294LP

Release Date:  15 November 2019

Label:  Crammed Discs

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  876623008057

Genres:  World Music  Africa  

  • Description

    This twofold album comprises 80 minutes worth of previously-unreleased original recordings from Konono N°1, Sankayi, Orchestre Bambala, Orchestre Bana Luya made during 1978, as well as brand-new reconstructions made by Martin Meissonnier, the highly-respected French producer who worked with the likes of Fela Kuti, Haruomi Hosono and many more.

    The album comes as a vinyl LP with the Martin Meissonnier reconstructions, while the previously-unreleased recordings from 1978 appear on a CD which is enclosed in the vinyl cover.

    Back in 1978, Bernard Treton recorded four 'tradi-modern' bands in Kinshasa. These sessions spawned the "Zaïre: Musiques Urbaines à Kinshasa" album (released in 1986 by the Ocora label), a record which, for the first time, presented to Western audiences the electrifying music which was later to be known as "Congotronics".

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Sankayi - Il ne faut pas intervenir (Martin Meissonnier reconstruction)
      • 2. Konono N°1 - Roots of K (Martin Meissonnier reconstruction)
      • 3. Orchestre Bambala - Animation Kifuti (Martin Meissonnier reconstruction)
      • 4. Orchestre Bana Luya Animation - (Martin Meissonnier reconstruction)

      Disc 2

      • 1. Konono N°1 - Kin 78 One
      • 2. Orchestre Bana Luya - Kin 78 Two
      • 3. Orchestre Bambala - Kin 78 Three
      • 4. Sankayi - Kin 78 Four