Name: Tres Tres Fort
Brand: Staff Benda Bilili

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craw51

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2009-03-24

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Staff Benda Bilili

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African

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staff benda bilili are a group of paraplegic street musicians who live in the grounds of the zoo in kinshasa, congo. even amid the tales of gun-toting guerrilla factions or rapping child soldiers that often surround african music, the publicity behind this particular band grabs the attention. more compelling still than their unusual back story is their debut album 'tres tres fort', which mingles the classic congolese sounds of rumba and soukous, the original 20th-century african dance music, with bursts of funk and melancholic reggae. rousing choruses and call-and-response singing are underpinned by punchy rhythms, while the high-pitched inflections of a homemade single-string guitar, fashioned from a milk can and electrical wire, appear intermittently for hypnotic solos. a contemporary african classic, recorded on the fly and outdoors in the kinshasa zoo, the album will appeal to fans of the blues or the buena vista social club, as much as followers of fela kuti or the cult congolese act konono no 1, the group which staff benda bilili's belgian label, crammed, released to much acclaim in 2005.

Tres Tres Fort

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