Baloji/Orchestra Baobab – review

Barbican, LondonA young contender from Democratic Republic of Congo goes head to head with the greatest veteran band in west Africa, and the old-timers win – though it's a close-run contest. Baloji has spent much of his life in Belgium, but returned to Congo to record his album Kinshasa Succursale, in which rousing local musicians such as Konono No 1 worked alongside him. It was intriguing to see how he would manage without them, and he succeeded because of his considerable (if sometimes annoy...

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