Cannes, You Dig It? | Songlines
World music documentaries on Malian folk traditions and Congolese rumba do the business at this month's Cannes' Pan-African Awards
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"The Rumba Kings" documentary explores the golden age of Congolese rumba
Exploring the golden age of Congolese rumba is what offers the documentary "The Rumba Kings", selected at the Pan-African Film Festival.
Source: africanews.com
Afropop Worldwide | Alan Brain on Congo Music Documentary: "The Rumba Kings"
But I didn't know it at that time. So this experience at the funeral of Tabu Ley in 2013 leads you to these people, and that's where you get the idea to make this film? Long story short, the idea of the film probably happened in two moments. The first moment was when I watched an American documentary film called Playing for Change. Yes. That's where musicians around the world collaborate together on covers of famous songs. Beautiful stuff. Yes, made by Mark Johnson. I fell in love with that. I said, “Wow. The sound is amazing. How did he get that sound?” There were the microphones on cam...
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