Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2017 January 04 • Monday

Who knows a lot about Angolan music? Not me! But almost 20 years ago I bought a record called Angola 72 by Bonga, an athlete turned singer and political dissident/activist.

I didn't know what the songs were about but I loved many of the melodies, the smooth and insistent rhythms and pulsations of the chord changes, its plaintive and exciting qualities.

Then last year I discovered that several of those songs were apparently by a woman named Lilly Tchiumba, who had released an earlier record on Smithsonian Folkways.

There isn't much about her online but this record is amazing and I highly recommend it.