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Tabu Ley Rochereau - The Voice Of Lightness - Congo Classics 1961-1977 (2007)

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Tabu Ley Rochereau - The Voice Of Lightness - Congo Classics 1961-1977 (2007)

Tabu Ley Rochereau - The Voice Of Lightness - Congo Classics 1961-1977
African rumba | mp3 320 Kbps | 2 CD | 343 MB
Sterns Music 2007

From the mid-sixties to the mid-Eighties, Kinshasa-raised Tabu Ley Rochereau was the premier singer in sub-Saharan Africa. His supple, soft-textured tenor defined the Congolese rumba style known as soukous almost as much as the billowy, coruscating guitarists he deployed as a bandleader-arranger, and his songwriting was both melodically inspired and commercially omnivorous. For most American listeners, this superb pre-1977 double CD will introduce not just Rochereau but soukous, which, though it dominated Afropop into the Nineties, has been marketed sporadically here. There are plenty of the multiguitar sebene grooves that soukous fans cried out for, but the set's pervasive pleasure is lovely melodies filigreed with guitar that's delicate and propulsive. The excellent notes make clear that, though Rochereau had plenty of Latin-lover Lothario in him, he sang about many things: pride of race and place, his mother, his mortality, laundry soap if the soap company would pay for it and, on the onomatopoeic "Aon Aon," wah-wah guitar.
01. Kelya
02. K.J
03. Succes African Jazz
04. Pesa le Tout
05. Nalembi Nalembi
06. N´daya Paradis
07. Tabalissimo
08. Mama Ida
09. Mireille Mwana
10. Mokolo Nakokufa
11. Savon Omo
12. Lily Mwana ya Quartier
13. Kasala
14. Monano
15. Ana Mokoy
16. Mokitani ya Wendo
17. Christine
18. Songo + Songo = Songi-songi

01. Aon Aon
02. Kimakango mpe Libala
03. Mongali
04. Omanga
05. Nzale
06. Kaful Mayay
07. Karibou ya Bintou
08. Mbanda Nayei
09. Adeito (1&2)
10. Yombe
11. Likambo ya Mokanda