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Anthologie de la musique Zairoise moderne 


and Democratic Republic of the Congo celebrated this year ,it's 50 years of "independence"...

Men and women of the Congo,
Victorious fighters for independence, today victorious, I greet you in the name of the Congolese Government. All of you, my friends, who have fought tirelessly at our sides, I ask you to make this June 30, 1960, an illustrious date that you will keep indelibly engraved in your hearts, a date of significance of which you will teach to your children, so that they will make known to their sons and to their grandchildren the glorious history of our fight for liberty.
For this independence of the Congo, even as it is celebrated today with Belgium, a friendly country with whom we deal as equal to equal, no Congolese worthy of the name will ever be able to forget that is was by fighting that it has been won, a day-to-day fight, an ardent and idealistic fight, a fight in which we were spared neither privation nor suffering, and for which we gave our strength and our blood.
We are proud of this struggle, of tears, of fire, and of blood, to the depths of our being, for it was a noble and just struggle, and indispensable to put an end to the humiliating slavery which was imposed upon us by force.
This was our fate for eighty years of a colonial regime; our wounds are too fresh and too painful still for us to drive them from our memory. We have known harassing work, exacted in exchange for salaries which did not permit us to eat enough to drive away hunger, or to clothe ourselves, or to house ourselves decently, or to raise our children as creatures dear to us...

some facts you should know about the country from wiki 

in 1973 Papa Noël was appointed Artistic Director in order to create an  Anthology of Modern Zairean Music,that was to  be published by the office of the President of the Republic in other words  the dictator Mobutu Sésé Séko himself, in accordance to his authenticité policy. Papa Noël gathered his old friends Wendo Kolosoy Camille Feruzi, Leon Bukasa, Lucie Eyenga Moseka, Adou Elenga and Manuel Oliveira all of them icons of Congolese music who reinterpreted their classic rumba songs, Some vintage takes of  these old time and entirely wonderful  rumbas can be found here

A1 Feruzi  -  Lolendo  3:05  
A2 Bukasa  -  Bibi Sultani  4:10  
A3 Eyenga Moseka  -  Mwana Ya Mama  3:15  
A4 Adou-Elenga  -  Awale Esika Minene  3:35  
A5 Wendo*  -  Bendele  3:15  
A6 Eyenga Moseka  -  Dit Moninga  3:10  
B1 Bukasa  -  Mantare Mwasi Kitoko  3:25  
B2 Eyenga Moseka  -  Nabanzaki  3:15  
B3 D'Oliveira  -  Basi Banso Tapale  3:50  
B4 Wendo*  -  Wendo Alongwi Kinshasa  4:20  
B5 Adou-Elenga  -  Oleki Olekaka  3:30  
B6 Bukasa  -  Bolingo Na Biso Na Yo Esila Te  3:25  
C1 Wendo*  -  Mama Mulena Wale  4:23  
C2 Eyenga Moseka  -  Mabe Na Yo Moko  3:10  
C3 Adou-Elenga  -  Verebina  3:15  
C4 Bukasa  -  Bibi Yangu  3:17  
C5 Wendo*  -  Liwa Ya Wendo  4:15  
C6 Eyenga Moseka  -  Yuyu  3:00  
D1 D'Oliveira  -  Chérie Bodonwe  3:20  
D2 Adou-Elenga  -  Pyramide  3:20  
D3 Bukasa  -  Kitambala Moko  4:15  
D4 Eyenga Moseka  -  Baloji Mwana Ya Africa-Jazz  3:30  
D5 Wendo*  -  Toko Wela Wela  3:55