Afro Latin Via Kinshasa auf 2 CDs

- Doppel-CD Digipack, 24 seitiges Booklet
- Stücke von Baobab, Sabor Band De Dakar, Idy Diop and mehr!
- Sound is a unique blend of Afro & Cuban Music, all recorded in the 60 / 70's. The Roots of Afrocubism

Nach der African Pearls-Reihe folgt eine neues Kapitel afro-karibischer Musikgeschichte. Kinshasa wurde von karibischer Musik beeinflusst, nicht zuletzt die kubanischen Seeleute brachten diesen Sound (indirekt zurück)

From town to town and port to port, The Via Collection aims to explain to the different musical fusions that happened between Cuban and African styles of Music, touched by candor, depth and Spontanity. There are many similarities between African and Cuban music, like the use of percussion, in the rhythms and dances (in the Congo in particular), and also in the vocal modulations. A trend emerged of reinterpreting these Cuban styles, but also Caribbean music, jazz and rhythm'n'blues. Towards the end of the 1940s, local orchestras in coastal towns like Saint-Louis, Dakar, Conakry, Abidjan, Cotonou, Porto Novo, Lagos, Douala and Luanda started playing by ear the Cuban sailors'78s heard on gramophones in the small cafes. Sounds, guajiras, boleros, pachangas ...