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Papa Wemba

Color Red Records: A Label, Sound, and Vision

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 18, 2023

When Eddie Roberts, leader of The New Mastersounds, moved to Denver, Colorado, in 2015, he discovered a local music scene that contributed to his vision for a new type of music organization: a label that would be more than a label, producing and releasing music that would be more than (good) music--music that would establish a ...

New Morning

By Papa Wemba

Label: Synchronies Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Excuse Me; Ainsi Soit-Il; Bonjour Daddy; Congo Moko; Image; Maria Valencia; Phrase; Sala Keba; Fa Fa Fa; Maman; Au Nombe L'Amour; Yolele; Show Me The Way; Awa Y'Okeyi; Ye Te Oh.

Papa Wemba: New Morning

by Chris May
October 29, 2006

Magic. Hip-swaying, smile-making, life-enhancing, butt-shaking, number one with a mango magic. Paris-based Papa Wemba, the King of Congolese Rhumba, has been off the recording scene for almost three years, following some moments difficiles, as he puts it in the liner notes. Wemba was jailed for smuggling “illegal immigrants (ie. clan members without visas looking for a ...