Released 12 February 2008 Release date 12 February 2008 | Length 76:13 Label World Music Network | |
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The Rough Guide to Congo Gold
(2008) The Rough Guide to African Street Party
(2008) Genres Soukous, Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||
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The Rough Guide to Congo Gold is a world music compilation album originally released in 2008. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release focuses on the soukous genre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with tracks from the 1960s to 90s. The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. Martin Sinnock compiled the tracks and wrote the liner notes, and Brad Haynes & Marisa Lassman coordinated the project.
Contents
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Critical reception
The album met critical appraise upon release. In his review for AllMusic, Chris Nickson wrote that the album does a "first-rate job" in illustrating the genre and gives an "object lesson in what made it so wonderful". Robert Christgau called it "as playable as Afrocomps get". Writing for PopMatters, Nate Cunningham rose the issue of artists being "almost exclusively names you can find in the Wikipedia entry on soukous", but gave it a pass, saying it's less an "aural equivalent of a picture-postcard" than other introductory world music compilations. John Goddard of the Toronto Star agreed with Cunningham that "every artist belongs to the pantheon", but called every song a "nugget".
Songs
1Marie LouiseWendo Kolosoy - Henri Bowane3:24
2ParafifiLe Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz5:13
3Adios TeteLe Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz2:47