Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central and East African Music

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Experience a musical journey through central and eastern Africa with Listen All Around, a 2 CD set with a 84-page book and streaming/download code. Featuring...
Experience a musical journey through central and eastern Africa with Listen All Around, a 2 CD set with a 84-page book and streaming/download code. Featuring 47 newly-transferred and remastered recordings from Hugh Tracey between 1950-1958, this compilation is a partnership between Dust-to-Digital and the International Library of African Music. Discover the sounds of Congolese rumba, dansi, and benga, as documented by Tracey through recordings, photographs, and detailed liner notes, providing a laid back immersion into mid-20th-century music.

1. Kalenga Antonance – “Mamboleyo (Affairs of Today)”
2. Ilunga Patrice, Misomba Victor and Friends – “Mamwana Kufika Munda (My Love Is Upset)”
3. Vijana wa Mbeya with Jim D. Gondwe – “Siwezi Kuiacha Rumba (I Cannot Give Up Rumba)”
4. Henri Bembele and Orchestra Tinapa – “Stanleyville Putulú (Stanleyville Is Dusty)”
5. Dar es Salaam Jazz Band – “Kwa Jinsi Ninavyokupenda (How I Love You)”
6. Lang Obiero – “Pini Ochama (I Was Without Hope)”
7. Joseph Eluka and Soldiers – “Sͻkͻ Olingi Na-Boma (If You Want to Kill Me)”
8. Yemba Jean Batiste and Soldiers – “Caroline Zibula Bango”
9. Société Edemi de Stanleyville – “Tála Bango (Watch Them) “
10. Bakia Pierre – "Gitari na Congo (Guitar of the Congo)”
11. Morris Kalala – “Birima”
12. Tauni Mwenasasu and Friend – “Mangwasi”
13. Coast Social Orchestra – “Napenda (I Love)”
14. Coast Social Orchestra – “Mamie Sistah Mai Deah (Mommy, Sister My Dear)”
15. Chemutoi Ketienya and Kipsigis Girls – “Chemirocha III”
16. Sunderland String Band – “Mpenzi Wangu Wanitupa (My Sweetheart Left Me)”
17. Lang Obiero – “Mpenzi Wangu, Umepotea Mjini (My Love, You Have Disappeared in Town)”
18. Lang Obiero – “Jumamosi Kuna Vigelegele (On Saturday, There Is Celebration)”
19. ORCLOS – “Maivuno ni Kilema (Jealousy Is a Vice)”
20. Kimambo Brothers – “Kisima cha Wivu (Well of Jealousy)”
21. Coast Social Orchestra – "Moyo Wanitanga-Tanga (My Heart Is Troubled)”
22. Coast Social Orchestra – “Nali Kisafiri (As I Was Traveling)”
23. ECO African Band – “Wapenzi Kuwaona (We Are Pleased to See You and to Be Together)”
24. Ilunga Patrice, Misomba Victor and Friends – “Mama Josefina (Mama Josefina)”
25. ORCLOS – “Jean Ndjela ku Parquet (Jean Ndjela Before the High Court)”
26. Norbert de Magaro – “Pipi na Dongo (Candy and Okra)”
27. Ezekiel Kamenga and Luba Men – “Kilio Mama (Mother’s Cries)”
28. Mwenda Jean Bosco and Singers – “Mwendo Tulikwenda (The Journey That We Took)”
29. ECO African Band – “Doa Jeupe (White Spot)”
30. Sunderland String Band – “Eh, Mwajuma Wanikataa (Eh, Mwajuma, You Have Turned Me Down)”
31. Samuel Colon and Baninga Baye – “Marie Wabolingo (Marie, My Love)”
32. Dar es Salaam Jazz Band – “Hayo Siyakweli (It’s Not True)”
33. Dar es Salaam Jazz Band – “Nimepata Mpenzi, Mtoto, Mdogo, Mzuri Simwachi (I Got a Young, Beautiful Girl that I Won’t Leave)”
34. Chipukizi Rumba – “Nimepata Mpenzi, Mtoto Mzuri (I Got a Young, Beautiful Girl)”
35. Vijana wa Mbeya – “Mtoto Mzuri Simwachi (I Won’t Leave a Young, Beautiful Girl)”
36. Merry Black Birds – “Chineno (Little Speech)”
37. Merry Black Birds – “Chaupele Mpenzi (Chaupele, My Love)”
38. ORCLOS – “Ushuru wa Guitare (Payments for [Playing] Guitar)”
39. Katanga Dance Orchestra – “Mapani (Mapani’s Band)”
40. Salum's Brass Band with Salum Seliman – “Mahaba Matamu (How Sweet Is Our Love)”
41. Salum's Brass Band with Salum Seliman – “Shukurani (Give Thanks)”
42. Salum's Brass Band with Salum Seliman – “Hawana Kazi Makarani (They Have No Work, Those Clerks)”
43. Chipukizi Rumba – “Dada Mwajuma Nifichie Siri Yangu (Sister Mwajuma, Keep My Secret)”
44. Chibanda Baudouin – “Skoot (Scouts)”
45. Lake Victoria Band – “Dhi Dala U (Go Back to Your Home)”
46. Kamwema Jean and His Friends – “Nabela”
47. ORCLOS – “Tulale Ngonga Imelia (The Time Has Come to Sleep)”

Catalog Number DTD-52

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Artist(s)

Recording Era(s) ["1950-1958"]

Number of Tracks

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Label(s) / Partner(s) Dust-to-Digital

Producer(s) April Ledbetter, Steven Lance Ledbetter, Diane Thram

Audio Engineer(s) Michael Graves

Designer(s) Martin Venezky

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Additional Information

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kenya
  • Tanzania

  • Benga
  • Congolese rumba
  • Dansi
  • Field Recording
  • Rumba