In going through some old music recently, I found a wonderful compilation of performances at the Dutch Music Meeting festival from 2001-2003. These aren't commercially available, so they're really a treat if you can find them (or find a radio station that plays them for you!). "Rumba Makossa" is something of a swinging, Latinized version of the Dibango classic "Soul Makosa," a song that was ori...
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[Many Dibango - New Bell / 6:50]Forgive me Funkster for I have faked. I have made bold statements about the extent of my funk-fu mastery and led my fellow F-parliamentaries into F-forgery.It all began with the intimation of going to war for the Funk. Funkalised by the rallying cry of the West against the East, I enrolled when I was but a semi-ignorant F-dragon.True, I was fairly educated in soul a
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In any sensible person's Funky Song Hall of Fame.
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Thanks to BurningDervish for reminding me to dig out this from 1977ish:
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It is almost impossible to find a fitting description for a musician such as Manu Dibango who has made such an enormous contribution to African music as a whole. He is a saxophonist, nicknamed 'The lion of Cameroon', from a track on The Very Best of African Soul album. Originally trained in classical piano, his musical career began in Brussels and Paris in the 1950s. 1960 finds him in Congo as...
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In going through some old music recently, I found a wonderful compilation of performances at the Dutch Music Meeting festival from 2001-2003. These aren't commercially available, so they're really a treat if you can find them (or find a radio station that plays them for you!)."Rumba Makossa" is something of a swinging, Latinized version of the Dibango classic "Soul Makosa," a song that was orig...
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Some music, and most great music, can't be easily classified, right? Accordingly, I find most attempts at describing Manu Dibango's unique blend of African and jazz influences completely unsatisfactory.Manu's output over the years has covered much terrain: early disco, African funk, jazz, electronic world music, soulful sax playing...all bringing together the black cultures of Africa, Europe, ...
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