Babeti Soukous, the Glossary
Babeti Soukous is a 1989 studio/live album by DR Congolese soukous musician and pioneer Tabu Ley Rochereau (using the longer name of Tabu Ley Seigneur Rochereau) and his band the Afrisa International Orchestra.[1]
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56 relations: Africa, Album, AllMusic, Alto saxophone, Art rock, Arts festival, Box, Wiltshire, Breakbeat, Cabaret, Central Africa, Chicago Tribune, Chippenham railway station, Conga, Congolese rumba, Dance move, Democratic Republic of the Congo, England, France, FRoots, Funk, Greatest hits album, Jazz, Jazz Forum (magazine), Juju Music, King Sunny Adé, Kwassa kwassa, Latin music, Madiaba, Mobutu Sese Seko, Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Option (music magazine), Passion – Sources, Pépé Kallé, Peter Gabriel, Pop music, Q (magazine), Real World Records, Real World Studios, Rhumba, Rhythm and blues, Robert Christgau, Rock music, Smokey Robinson, Soukous, Spin (magazine), Tabu Ley Rochereau, Tenor saxophone, The New York Times, Tom Moon, ... Expand index (6 more) »
- Real World Records live albums
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- Worldbeat albums
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Alto saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments.
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Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.
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Arts festival
An arts festival is a festival that can encompass a wide range of art forms including music, dance, film, fine art, literature, poetry and is not solely focused on visual arts.
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Box, Wiltshire
Box is a large village and civil parish within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Wiltshire, England, about west of Corsham and northeast of Bath.
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Breakbeat
Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B.
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Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
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Central Africa
Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
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Chippenham railway station
Chippenham railway station is on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) in South West England, serving the town of Chippenham, Wiltshire.
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Conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.
Congolese rumba
Congolese rumba, also known as African rumba, is a dance music genre originating from the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).
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Dance move
Dance moves or dance steps (more complex dance moves are called dance patterns, dance figures, dance movements, or dance variations) are usually isolated, defined, and organized so that beginning dancers can learn and use them independently of each other.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
FRoots
fRoots (pronounced "eff-Roots", originally Folk Roots) was a specialist music magazine published in the UK between 1979 and 2019.
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Greatest hits album
A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jazz Forum (magazine)
Jazz Forum is a European jazz magazine based in Warsaw.
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Juju Music
Juju Music is the 1982 major label debut of Nigerian jùjú band King Sunny Adé and His African Beats. Babeti Soukous and Juju Music are Worldbeat albums.
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King Sunny Adé
Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye (born 22 September 1946), known professionally as King Sunny Adé, is a Nigerian jùjú singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is regarded as one of the first African pop musicians to gain international success and has been called one of the most influential musicians of all time.
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Kwassa kwassa
Kwassa kwassa (or kwasa kwasa) is a dance created by Jeanora, a mechanic in Kinshasa from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that started in the 1980s, where the hips move back and forth while the hands move to follow the hips.
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Latin music
Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America, which encompasses Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino population in Canada and the United States, as well as music that is sung in either Spanish and/or Portuguese.
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Madiaba
Madiaba was a dance craze of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that occurred in the 1980s.
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Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997), often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the 1st and only President of Zaire from 1971 to 1997.
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Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congolese music is one of the most influential music forms of the African continent.
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (نصرت فتح علی خان,; born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997) was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and music director.
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Option (music magazine)
Option (subtitled Music Alternatives, then Music Culture) was a music magazine based in Los Angeles, California, US.
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Passion – Sources
Passion – Sources is the second of two albums of music from Martin Scorsese's film The Last Temptation of Christ.
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Pépé Kallé
Pépé Kallé, sometimes written as Pepe Kalle (November 30, 1951 – November 29, 1998) was a Congolese soukous singer, musician and bandleader.
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Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Q (magazine)
Q was a popular music magazine.
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Real World Records
Real World Records is a British record label specializing in world music.
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Real World Studios
Real World Studios is a residential recording studio complex founded by Peter Gabriel and situated in the old Box Mill building in the village of Box, Wiltshire, England, near to the city of Bath.
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Rhumba
Rhumba, also known as ballroom rumba, is a genre of ballroom music and dance that appeared in the East Coast of the United States during the 1930s.
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
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Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive.
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Soukous
Soukous (from French secousse, "shock, jolt, jerk") is a genre of dance music originating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) and the Republic of the Congo (formerly French Congo).
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Spin (magazine)
Spin (stylized in all caps as SPIN) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.
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Tabu Ley Rochereau
Pascal-Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu (13 November 1940 – 30 November 2013), better known as Tabu Ley Rochereau, was a leading African rumba singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Tom Moon
Thomas Raphael Moon (born November 3, 1960) is an American saxophonist, author, and music critic.
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Townhouse Studios
The Town House (also known as Townhouse Studios) was a recording studio located at 150 Goldhawk Road, Shepherd's Bush in London, built in 1978 under the direction of Richard Branson for Virgin Records.
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West London
West London is the western part of London, England, north of the River Thames, west of the City of London, and extending to the Greater London boundary.
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Wiltshire
Wiltshire (abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
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World music
"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music.
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World of Music, Arts and Dance
WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) is an international arts festival.
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die
1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die is a musical reference book written by Tom Moon, published in 2008.
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See also
Real World Records live albums
- Babeti Soukous
- Back to Front: Live in London
- Growing Up: Live (film)
- Live Blood
- Live at Selwyn Hall
- Live/Remix
- Secret World Live
Soukous albums
Tabu Ley Rochereau albums
- Babeti Soukous
- Man from Kinshasa
- Omona Wapi
Worldbeat albums
- 1 Giant Leap (album)
- A Whisky Kiss
- Afterplanesman
- Babeti Soukous
- Bothy Culture
- Commune (album)
- Conjure One (album)
- Dance into the Light
- Duniya (The Intrinsic Passion of Mysterious Joy)
- Dust (Peatbog Faeries album)
- Eye Contact (Gang Gang Dance album)
- Get Up with It
- God's Money (album)
- Graceland (album)
- Gypsy Beats and Balkan Bangers
- Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument
- Juju Music
- Kinshasa One Two
- Let Them Eat Bingo
- Man (Neneh Cherry album)
- Mellowosity
- Mighty ReArranger
- Naked (Talking Heads album)
- Odd Blood
- Peter Gabriel (1982 album)
- Pop 'n' Mento
- Remain in Light
- Saw Delight
- Second Light
- So (album)
- Solar Shears
- Songs Cycled
- Susquehanna (album)
- The Circle & the Square
- The Story of I
- Us (Peter Gabriel album)
- Vampire Weekend (album)
- Welcome to Dun Vegas
- Wha'ppen?
- Witness (Show of Hands album)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babeti_Soukous
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