Our fifth presentation of vintage recordings from the EMI Archive in Hayes, 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-colonialism, after the Second World War — and the daredevil origins of Congolese rumba, the entire continent's most popular music in the sixties and seventies...
Fired-up, original 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...
With notes by Gary Stewart, author of Rumba On The River; translations and rare photographs; sound restoration at Abbey Road.

Song titles include:
Maboka Marie - Laurent Lomande
Matete Paris - Adikwa Depala
Akei Cimetiere - - Adikwa Depala
Cherie N'Aluli Yo - Andre Denis
Yaka Ko Tala - Vincent Kuli
Klim - Jean Mpia
Ntango N' Abali - Boniface Koufoudila
Musinichkie - Robert Yuakarie
Koseke Moniga Te - Albert Bongu
Boma Limbala - Rene Mbu
C.C.T. Ebongisi Mokiri - Adikwa Depala
Bengala Ngai Bosele - Fabien Libasi
Elisa - Laurent Lomande
Moni, Moni Non Dey - Adikwa Depala
Bino Boton, Bosele - Boniface Koufoudila
Kioo Cha Nyumba - Norbert Yakari
Mokolo Bafuti Sanza - J.P. Ndagu
Tokowela Angelique - Boniface Koufoudila
Akimi Magai Na Butu - Laurent Lomande
Tika Koseka - Jean Mpia
Yoka Ngal - Adikwa Depala