The World Is Shaking Cubanismo From The Congo 1954-55

• laurent lomande – maboka marie
• adikwa depala – matete paris
• andre denis – cherie n'aluli yo

• 1. laurent lomande – maboka marie
• 2. adikwa depala – matete paris
• 3. adikwa depala – akei cimetiere
• 4. andre denis – cherie n'aluli yo
• 5. vincent kuli – yaka ko tala
• 6. jean mpia – klim
• 7. boniface koufoudila – ntango n'abali
• 8. robert yuakarie – musinichkie
• 9. albert bongu – koseke moniga te
• 10. rene mbu – boma limbala
• 11. adikwa depala – c.c.t ebongisi
• 12. fabien libasi – bengela ngai bosele
• 13. laurent lomande – elisa
• 14. adikwa depala – moni, moni non dey
• 15. boniface koufoudila – bino boton, bosele
• 16. norbert yakari – kioo cha nyumba
• 17. j.p ndagu – mokolo bafuti sanza
• 18. boniface koufoudila – tokowela angelique
• 19. laurent lomande – akimi magai na butu
• 20. jean mpia – tika koseka
• 21. adikwa depala – yoka ngal

Fired-up, originary African pop, conjuring the Congolese rumba from imported Latin 78s — with thumb pianos, kazoos, banjos, bottles, violins, and irresistible little songs about pimps, dope, clubbing, sex, death.

This album uncovers the dizzy beginnings of the golden age of African music — zinging with the social and political ferment of the independence movement and anti-colonianalism, after the Second World War — and the daredevil origins of Congolese rumba, the entire continent's most popular music in the sixties and seventies.