The evolution of Congolese popular music in the 1960s and 70s is generally classified into two major schools: African Jazz & OK Jazz. The main representatives of those schools are Joseph Kabasele alias Grand Kallé, founder of African Jazz, and Franco Luambo, co-founder ...
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PI12 | PLANET ILUNGA
All recordings were made by Mark Vernon at Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert, Stirling Community Hospital and Falkirk Community Hospital between 2011 and 2013. Whilst every effort has been made to record the subject in as great a degree of isolation as possible, the ...
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DEATH121LP | DEATH IS NOT THE END
"For its tenth release and in celebration of its tenth anniversary, the label launches with "The Soul of Congo" its most ambitious project to date: a well-documented and extensive anthology (on 3LP + 3CD) about the illustrious and legendary Congolese music label Ngoma. ...
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PI10CD | PLANET ILUNGA
"Planet Ilunga continues its mission to uncover and highlight the overlooked yet epic achievements in the world of Congolese rumba. This time to tell the most spectacular story of all. This is the story of the creation of Surboum African Jazz, the first Congolese music ...
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PI09 | PLANET ILUNGA
2025 repress "After the double LP 'The Loningisa Years 1956-1961', released in 2017, Planet Ilunga continues to explore the monumental oeuvre of Congo's most legendary band O.K. Jazz with the new 2LP compilation 'La Rumba de mi Vida'. It displays the full extent to ...
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PI08 | PLANET ILUNGA
"MONA MUR's solo album "Delinquent" is out on Cheezy Crust Records! This vinyl release of the 2019 album is a limited edition of 300 colored vinyl copies. Mona Mur is a name synonymous with a smoky, cool voice, manically intense performances, and an illustrious list of ...
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CCR007 | CHEEZY CRUST
"18 CDs, 1 DVD and 180 pages of histories, chronology, testimony and commentaries by the band, sundry contemporary documents, and rare photographs - in a sturdy box. This collection brings together the full contents of the three former boxes, with the addition of a ...
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ReRHCBRX | RER MEGACORP
"Bourbonese Qualk were an experimental music group from England who where active from 1979 until 2003. The group were always obsessively and uncompromisingly focused on controlling their work - they ran their own record label, recording studio, tour organisation and ...
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GG526 | KLANGGALERIE
