Wu Tang Clan summed it up succinctly and memorably when they said “Cash rules everything around me—(CREAM!)” but that’s hardly the last word on the subject. Our friend, the Berlin-based DJ Mixanthrope, has collected a few more bon mots about money from West and Central Africa.
It’s a pretty blissed-out mix for having such serious subject matter, and several of the songs are about how you have to “work—every day work”—for money, and how “only work pays.”
I guess it’s appropriate for May Day, and, frankly, as someone working to this music, I can personally attest that it’s helping me get through the day.
TRACK LIST:
00:00 - Samba Mapangala & Orchestra Virunga - L’Argent (Congo-Kinshasa)
05:33 - Chaud Lapin - Cousin Germain (?)
10:03 - Benji Mateke - Boulot C’est Boulot (Cameroon)
14:42 - Longuè Longuè - Il Faut Travailler (Cameroon)
20:48 - Pamelo Mounk’a - Le Travail Toujours le Travail (Congo-Brazzaville)
23:27 - Tabu Ley Rochereau & L’Afrisa International - Gagné Gagné, Perdu Perdu (Congo-Kinshasa)
26:16 - Serge Beynaud & Bebi Philip - Seul le Taf Paye (Côte d’Ivoire)
28:17 - Michel Moutouari - Maître Sokete (Congo-Brazzaville)
31:00 - Geo Bilongo - Patron Malhonnête (Congo-Kinshasa)
33:50 - Petit Yodé et l'Enfant Siro - Paris (Côte d’Ivoire)
38:10 - Claude Fabo - Magabeu Sound (Cameroun)
39:49 - Nigole Amogho - Ma Vie (Gabon)
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