http://calabashmusic.com<img src='http://files.calabashmusic.com/images/65607/patcho_star.jpg'>Congolese traditional soukous meets modern reggae and funk. Get your dance on with Patcho Star!Tue, 20 May 2008 10:02:20 -0500http://patchostar.calabashmusic.com/<img src='http://files.calabashmusic.com/images/64110/african_reggae.jpg'>Tue, 20 May 2008 10:02:20 -0500http://africanreggae.calabashmusic.com/<img src='http://files.calabashmusic.com/images/60370/young_babuka_band.jpg'>THE YOUNG BAKUBA Fresh from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), The Young Bakuba is the hottest sound to hit the markets this season. Originally founded by Director Wankebulua Domingos, and Tue, 20 May 2008 10:02:20 -0500http://youngbabukaband.calabashmusic.com/<img src='http://files.calabashmusic.com/images/84562/marabi_africa.jpg'>Marabi is the independant label created in 2002 by Christian Mousset, director of the Festival Musiques M&eacute;tisses d'Angoul&ecirc;me in France.The festival, place of exchange and discovery, is widely opened to urban popular musics from the African Continent, Indian Ocean, the Caribbeans, America. Marabi is mainly a discographic extension of this event. On the same artistic line, the label puts upcoming artists forward as well as patrimonial leading figures. Marabi is the name given to the South African Jazz born in the townships of the thirties.Tue, 20 May 2008 10:02:20 -0500http://marabiafrica.calabashmusic.com/<img src='http://files.calabashmusic.com/images/84507/el_congo_brazza_kin.jpg'>Rumba's two great historical figures (Wendo Kolosoy, Kinshasa's son, and Antoine Mondanda from Brazzaville on the other side of the river), the Victoria Bakolo Miziki and the Rumbanella Band (composed of young musicians) revisit in this compilation the Central African cultural heritage in a passionate and moving way.Tue, 20 May 2008 10:02:21 -0500http://elcongobrazzakin.calabashmusic.com/<img src='http://files.calabashmusic.com/images/73807/central_park_summerstage.jpg'>live SummerStage recordingsTue, 20 May 2008 10:02:21 -0500http://centralparksummerstage.calabashmusic.com/<img src='http://files.calabashmusic.com/images/44206/didier_ontchanga.jpg'>Didier Ontchanga is from Glass, a district of Libreville, located in&nbsp; the southern areas of Congo.Tue, 20 May 2008 10:02:21 -0500http://didierontchanga.calabashmusic.com/<img src='http://files.calabashmusic.com/images/50404/zaiko_langa_langa.jpg'>Zaiko Langa Langa is one of the key groups of the Congolese New Wave.Tue, 20 May 2008 10:02:21 -0500http://zaikolangalanga.calabashmusic.com/<img src='http://files.calabashmusic.com/images/816/ray_lema.jpg'>&nbsp;Ray Lema is one of the most prolific and powerful West African musicians. He has a passion for cultivating blend as an art, to launch into audacious rapprochements and impossible implants is second nature to him.Tue, 20 May 2008 10:02:21 -0500http://raylema.calabashmusic.com/<img src='http://files.calabashmusic.com/images/46876/master_of_percussion.jpg'>A great compilation series to discover the african percussions.Tue, 20 May 2008 10:02:21 -0500http://masterofpercussion.calabashmusic.com/