musical link: Franco Revival, Makmende

Casa Ntwiga is enjoying a Franco Luambo Makiadi revival thanks to the new must-absolutely-read-but-impossible-to-comment-on blog Franco et. TPOK Jazz Restored.

To get you on your way, here is 16 minutes 55 seconds of stupefying, posted before, but now enjoying almost non-stop airplay here. This diversion, for those of you who may have missed it, is also definitely worth taking the time to read.

 Franco Luambo Makiadi & TP OK Jazz - Tres impoli

AOB:
Makmende, from Just a Band, for those of you, whom again, may have missed it.

Makmende is on CNN later today, make a point of watching the piece.

[UPDATE: March 31st 2010] CNN piece is now up here.

An aside, Makmende is a corruption of a much-loved Dirty Harry witticism …. I have posted Just a Band’s work in the past, its great to see a phenom like this coming out of the very interesting stuff that they are doing.