I bought 2 new records from Honest Jones.

Honest Jones is one of the most interesting labels of our time. Among new stuff they re-release vintage recordings and make wonderful compilations. Perfection from the music to cover artwork to the descriptions.

Africa Boogaloo?The Latinization Of West Africa

Rocking the party and ramming the dancefloor is the first priority of this review of Latin styles in classic West African dance music, as it emerged with 1950s anti-colonialism, and ran on gloriously into the 70s.
Drawn from exceedingly rare records, mixing the celebrated and unknown, this is the sequel to The World Is Shaking.

A fantastic album.

The World Is Shaking?Cubanismo From The Congo, 1954-55

The new music grew in concert with a burgeoning night life — especially in the twin capitals of Leopoldville (today's Kinshasa) on the Belgian side, and Brazzaville on the French, where humming factories lured increasing numbers of rural Congolese with the offer of a steady, relatively well-paying job. Brazzaville had its celebrated nightclub, Chez Faignond, but most of the action took place across the river in much larger Leopoldville. There, Avenue Prince Baudouin, a ribbon of pavement connecting the white ville and black cite sections of the segregated capital, afforded easy access to a giddying number of bars. Labourers and clerks, fresh from work, jostled with thieves and dandies and a few adventuresome whites in the thicket of the Avenue's cross streets. Music wafting from hangouts like the Kongo Bar and Congo-Moderne, the pungent scent of cooking fires, hawkers' cries — Chewing gum! Cigarettes! Roast meat! — bombarded the senses and enfeebled self-control.

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