Updated song:
Staff Benda Bilili are a group of Congolese street musicians living around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa, and playing music which is rooted in rumba, with elements of old-school rhythm’n’blues and reggae. The core of the band consists of four senior singers/guitarist, who are all disabled (they suffered from poliomyelitis when they were young) and move around in spectacularly customized tricycles. I made the album Tres Tres Fort as a christmas gift for my mother, so I couldn’t post this earlier, and here’s the song “Moto Moindo“:
This was a Music-Suggestion from Zdenko!
These guys tour in Japan. Haven’t seen them yet but they sound great.
yeah, thanks Ayako!
Thanks for another great recommendation. For me it’s even more interesting to listen to Staff Benda Bilili, since I did a story from Congo not long ago.
oh, great Otto. Tell me the link, and I’ll read it tomorrow ;)
Unfortunately it was only published in a magazine – and in Norway…
ah… In english? If it’s english, send me the link ;)
Not in English :-(
oh, what a pitty Otto. :(