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Track Listings
| 1. Merengue |
| 2. Motindo na yo te |
| 3. Aya la mode |
| 4. Finga mama munu |
| 5. Infidelite mado |
| 6. Likambo ya ngana |
| 7. Ou est le serieux? |
| 8. Tailleur |
| 9. Kinshasa mboka ya makambo |
| 10. Mario |
| 11. Chacun pour soi |
| 12. Attention na sida |
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With the world-music scene increasingly dominated by who's on tour and what's hot in the shops, The Rough Guide to Franco uncorks a rare vintage from the past. L'Okanga Landju Pene Luambo Makiadi, usually known simply as Franco, was also nicknamed the Congo Colossus and the Wizard of the Guitar. For that was what this formidably talented boy from the market district of Kinshasa had already become when--working with a home-made instrument--he was spotted at the age of 11 and trained up into the biggest star in Congolese dance music. This fascinating disc, compiled and noted by Franco's biographer Graeme Ewens, follows his artistic growth from his teens to the final defiant anti-Aids polemic recorded shortly before his death in 1989. What Franco and his colleagues in the celebrated OK Jazz band did was to reappropriate the African music that had been developed in Cuba. But in reclaiming it they turned it into something specifically Congolese, as these tracks show, with the aid of a stunning cavalcade of singers and instrumentalists. Franco's provocative defence of his flamboyant lifestyle comes over in the talking-blues numbers but they all justify his band's motto--"Enter OK, leave KO'd". --Michael Church
With the world-music scene increasingly dominated by who's on tour and what's hot in the shops, The Rough Guide to Franco uncorks a rare vintage from the past. L'Okanga Landju Pene Luambo Makiadi, usually known simply as Franco, was also nicknamed the Congo Colossus and the Wizard of the Guitar. For that was what this formidably talented boy from the market district of Kinshasa had already become when--working with a home-made instrument--he was spotted at the age of 11 and trained up into the biggest star in Congolese dance music. This fascinating disc, compiled and noted by Franco's biographer Graeme Ewens, follows his artistic growth from his teens to the final defiant anti-Aids polemic recorded shortly before his death in 1989. What Franco and his colleagues in the celebrated OK Jazz band did was to reappropriate the African music that had been developed in Cuba. But in reclaiming it they turned it into something specifically Congolese, as these tracks show, with the aid of a stunning cavalcade of singers and instrumentalists. Franco's provocative defence of his flamboyant lifestyle comes over in the talking-blues numbers but they all justify his band's motto--"Enter OK, leave KO'd". --Michael Church
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