- artist:various
- featured artist:Bosco Mwenda, George Sibanda, Patrice Ilunga
- region:Central Africa
- release year:2001
- style(s):Afro, Ethnic
- country:Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:SWP Records
- label:SWP Records
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In the new urban culture during the fifties in the copper mining towns of Katanga province in southern Congo and on the Copperbelt in northern Zambia, the guitar became an important status symbol. An exciting album, with some famous names such as Mwenda Jean Bosco and George Sibanda - the emergence of a new sound, recorded by Hugh Tracey in 1950, '51, '57 & '58.