{"product_id":"636716","title":"The World Is Shaking:cuba - World Is Shaking: Cubanismo From The Congo 1954-55  [VINYL]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonest Jons fifth offering in their series of vintage recordings from the EMI Archive in Hayes, this album uncovers the dizzy beginnings of the golden age of African music zinging with the social and political ferment of the independence movement and anti-colonianalism, after the Second World War and the daredevil origins of Congolese rumba, the entire continent's most popular music in the sixties and seventies.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eIt's as if the musicians, fired up by the times in their zeal for experimental self-expression, tossed into a bottle some new elements and some old, some from near and some far, and then shook it hard, to see what would happen.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eWith notes by Gary Stewart, author of Rumba On The River; translations and rare photographs; sound restoration at Abbey Road.","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55413822357889,"sku":"636716","price":27.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/61p1ySikhlL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773262424","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/636716","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}