Various - The World Is Shaking: Cubanismo From The Congo 1954 - 55

honest jons fifth offering in their series 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-colonianalism, after the second world war and the daredevil origins of congolese rumba, the entire continent's most popular music in the sixties and seventies.