Grand Maître Makengo Makape & Yamba-Yamba Beto Ba - Musiques Traditionnelles Bantandu download free

This is excellent electrifying traditional bakongo music (percussion, chant, el bass, el guitar, likembé). A trance inducing groovy kind of proto Konono nr 1 sound.Probably recorded and released in the eighties. It has 4 (long) tracks which were featured before on a 10 track cassette release, on Babi Production.Here you can listen to 2 tracks from the original tape (not featured on the vinyl record):http://www.voanews.com/MediaAssets2/projects/african_music_treasures_blog/YAMBA_YAMBA_BETO_BANkumboYaMakengo.Mp3http://www.voanews.com/MediaAssets2/projects/african_music_treasures_blog/YAMBA_YAMBA_BETO_BAMakengo_Nkunga.Mp3"The group was founded in Kinshasa by Makengo Makape, and has been together for several decades. Their sound is rooted in the musical traditions of the Bantandu people, who are a subgroup of the Bakongo. (The roughly 10 million souls who consider themselves Bakongo are spread between the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, and Angola. The Bakongo are a blend of different peoples who, over the centuries, have assimilated the Kongo culture and language: an assimilation that started with political domination of the region by the Kongo Kingdom in the 15th century. Some of the many Bakongo subgroups are the Mayombe, the Bantandu, the Laari, the Vili, and the Bazombe-Konono’s repertoire is based in Bazombe musical traditions. Each of these groups speaks their own dialect of Kikongo.) The ‘Orchestre Yamba Yamba Beto Ba’s grooves are built around the guitars of Maitre Makape and his colleague Lutumba, with a Likembe holding down the bass, and embroidered by bells, rattles, and percussion." (Matthew Lavoie, VOA)