benga: rfi, s&d etc

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its pop music from kenya.

where should i start? what's good?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Guitar Paradise of East Africa, Kenya Dance Mania, The Rough Guide to the Music of Kenya & Tanzania, and The Rough Guide to the Music of Kenya are all fucking ace.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

i am listening to that earlier rough guide as i type.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

is that high bright guitar sound endemic to benga?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

not really; I think it stems from Franco (who was Congolese), and in his case it stems from Cuban rumba. I have that massive Ned Sublette book about Cuban music here and I keep hearing how great it is, but I have yet to crack it. because, you know, I'm too busy posting on ILM.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Is this going to be on the test?

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

The song that pitchfork posted today by that group Extra Golden which they called Benga has got me really interested. The two guitars sounded like The Feelies or Television or something but with a better beat, and I get the feeling this song is a watered down version of something even better.

Any more stuff you guys like?

― filthy dylan, Thursday, 16 August 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

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― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 November 2007 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

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