@Boima (at Ghetto Bassquake) posted a music video (via Sonja Uwimana) by the Congolese artist Baloji, “… the greatest music video maker in the world right now.” Baloji is doing an update of Grand Kalle et l’African Jazz’s independence rumba from 1960.
Remember Baloji’s last effort? He is killing it now.
UPDATE:
My man, Tom Devriendt–his day job is PhD student at the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium–send me this note with some more information on Baloji’s exploits:
‘… I just got back from a great Baloji concert: he prefers to call himself, well, ‘Afropean‘, rather than Congolese or Belgian. Born in Congo, raised in Belgium, holding a Belgian passport, singing about the in-betweenness, yes, I guess that makes him a Afropean. There’s a nice [short insert on Youtube, "Kinshasa Succursale," a kind of "The Making of ..."] of his previous video. See also here.
And, as a Congolese colleague just reminded me when watching Baloji’s band: “that’s Dizzy Mandjeku on the guitar! C’est lui le maître!” An awesome player indeed.‘
