Jul 10 2007
Sonific Sounds
Well, I’ve added some music now! Hope you like it. Wonder if I can find some more kwassa kwassa that can be downloaded. Or good belly dancing music. Either way, for now I thought I’d have music to dance to rather than music to meditate to. Perhaps I’ll add some of the latter on my school blogs!
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Hi Susan, the music is very boogylicious! good to listen and read the blog.
where are they from?
I am sorry that we have not communicated very much recently. Unfortunately a lot of work was put on hold during transformation teachers and it all came home to roost so to speak. I have set up other blogs and now look after approx 15 blogs which is too much when other work is taking me away from them. The students really like the blogs we have set up for workexperience have a look
workexperience.edublogs.org
Have a great summer if I don’t manage to see you before then.
Hi Susan,
I work with Sonific and therefore found your great blog with my Google Alerts. Thanks for using Songspots!
cheers, Kimmo
Lloyd, the band is based in Kinshasa, DRC. The Sonific Songspots info states: “Ground-Breaking Music from the Maestro, Papa Wemba, & his Kinshasa-based Nouvelle Ecriture Band. Soukous and Ndombolo at its best. Period.”
Wikipedia says: “Soukous (also known as Lingala or Congo, and previously as African rumba) is a musical genre that originated in the two neighbouring countries of Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s, and which has gained popularity throughout Africa. “Soukous” (derived from the French word secouer, to shake[1]) was originally the name of a dance popular in the Congos in the late 1960s, and danced to an African version of rumba. Although the genre was initially known as rumba (sometimes termed specifically as African rumba), the term “soukous” has come to refer to African rumba and its subsequent developments.
Soukous is called Congo music in West Africa, and Lingala in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – referring to the Lingala language of the region from where it originated. In the 1980s and early 1990s, a fast-paced style of soukous known as kwassa kwassa – named after a popular dance, was popular. A style called ndombolo, also named after a dance, is currently popular.”
Thanks Susan