MUSIC (Congolese): Kwamy's Iconic "Camarade ya Kinshasa"

To find the song, click the link given at the end of this paragraph, and then crawl down the page which the link takes you to up to the the song's lyrics. Just below the (typed text of the) lyrics you will find the audio icon for this hard-to-find gem of a song -- this "golden oldie" by TP OK Jazz's Kwamy -- from the great Congo. Then click the icon to initiate audio play [Do treat the effort that all this entails as a Treasure Hunt, and you'll be amply rewarded]:

Click here to find Kwamy's iconic Camarade ya Kinshasa


Ah! The sounds one fondly remembers populate the far reaches of the, so to speak, accordion universe. 

I always loved this wonderful, tuneful, song. It was lovely to be surrounded by it, and to be transported into a future we dreamt of -- and which awaited us. A future as un-deciphered as the songs we most loved. We, who were kings of our own moments. 


All we knew was that the song alluded to a mythical Comrade ('Camarade') in Kinshasa, whom we could all relate to. We didn't understand the message in the song, and had no translation of any kind. We didn't care -- didn't think we cared. We had been conditioned by the circumstances of our access to the song, and so didn't worry about the finer details of meaning.


UPDATE: This is an update of a post first published on this blog in November 2016 -- and now 'retired'. The update was mainly prompted by the find of a rather more direct link to the audio of Camarade ya Kinshasa.