Impose Magazine — Staff Benda Bilili was kind enough to let us tag along as they explored what little of NYC they could from the vantage point of wheelchairs and crutches on a tight touring schedule in a city where parking a handicap accessible tour van (or two) is ne... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Only a few dozen people turned up for Wednesday night's concert by Staff Benda Bilili, the eight-man ensemble from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lucky them. more info

KEXP Seattle — Sometimes the story behind a band is so powerful that it threatens to overshadow the band itself. That was the case with eight-member Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili, but their new album, Bouger Le Monde, should go a long ways to overcoming their o... more info

Guardian Music — (Riverboat/World Music Network)Just because you can't afford an instrument doesn't mean you can't make music. The remarkable sounds produced by Staff Benda Bilili's Roger Landu on his one-stringed, home-made satongé are a reminder of the invention o... more info

Guardian Music — (Igloor/Discovery)With Congolese music back in fashion thanks to Staff Benda Bilili and Jupiter, here's a timely reminder of a great Kinshasa pioneer of Congolese rumba, who started out in the pre-independence era. Wendo Kolosoy died four years ago, ... more info

Guardian Music — (Crammed)Kinshasa's troupe of disabled musicians have indeed "moved the world" with their trajectory from street scufflers to international stars, a feat celebrated here on Apandjokwetu. Recorded in a studio rather than in the zoo gardens, this secon... more info

Guardian Music — Various venues, LondonLondon Pleasure Gardens was a curiously bleak location for an ambitious pre-Olympic celebration: a gravel wasteland alongside an abandoned flour mill on the river's edge. It looked more like the set of a gritty movie than a conc... more info

Guardian Music — Ricky Likabu leads Congolese band of disabled musicians and former street children on Africa Stage of BT River of MusicLess than three years ago, in autumn 2009, Ricky Likabu packed up the little cigarette stall outside the central market in Kinshasa... more info

Guardian Music — (Independent)Discovering acts from dirt-poor Africa has delivered notable recent albums from, among others, Staff Benda Bilili and Congotronics. The Malawi Mouse Boys, named for the kebabed rodents they sell as snacks, are a rural vocal troupe singin... more info

Guardian Music — Our critic's pick of the best jazz, world and folk gigs coming up in May and JuneMarry Waterson and Oliver KnightThis is a busy time for the Waterson/Carthy clan, with Martin Carthy celebrating his 70th birthday at London's South Bank on 14 May, and ... more info