Lightning Over the River

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Music Club
• ASIN: B00000IISV
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,457 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #28 in Music > World Music > Africa > Soukous
  • #36 in Music > World Music > Africa > Zaire & Congo

Track Listings

1. Roger Milla - Pepe Kalle/Popolipo

2. Marie Jose - Lokassa Ya Mbongo/Lokassa

3. Lisumu - Zaiko Langa Langa/Matima

4. Molatisi - Syran Mbenza& The Best Of Paris/Syran Mbenza

5. Minzata - OK Jazz/Franco

6. Martin Ahanga - Zaiko Langa Langa FD/Petit Poisson

7. Icha - The Best Of Paris / Diblo Dibala

8. Yesu Christu - Kanda Bongo Man/Nene Tshakou

9. Ponce-Pilate - Tabu Ley/Huit Kilos

10. Banda Yango - Tshala Muana

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a "must-have" for soukous fans!, April 6, 2001

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"soukousfan" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lightning Over the River (Audio CD)

Better late than never for me to have discovered the joyous sounds and rythms of Congolese soukous! Buying cd after cd, in an effort to quench my insatiable desire for this music, this is so far the best compilation of a few of the "greats", Diblo Dibala, Pepe Kalle, and Kanda Bongo Man - how could you not want to get up and shake those hips! Then, there is the surprisingly sweet "Marie Jose", that will at most send you into a "chair-dance". Kanda Bongo Man shows his softer side in "Yesu Christo", so sweetly reverant, it could have been written by David in the book of Psalms. Its is heart-breaking and tragic that too many of these wonderfully talented musicians have come to untimely deaths, and that what we have left are a precious few years worth of recordings. It is an incomprehensible loss for musicians, artists, lovers of music, and the soukous sound.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crossing the Congo River to Guitar heaven..., September 9, 2000

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Matthew Watters "mistermizu" (Kell's Restaurant & Bar, Mongouge) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lightning Over the River (Audio CD)

Modern rumba featuring an array of big name vocalists and virtuoso guitarists. The test of any selection of this kind in my book is whether it contains memorable duets between rhythm and lead guitar, and this does: there are plenty of itchy fingers on this compilation. Listen to MARTIN AHANGA by Zaiko Langa Langa, featuring Petit Poisson, whose lead guitar solo is said to "leap like the fish he's nicknamed for" (Christina Roden). If PP is a fish, then DD (Diblo Dibala) must be a bird, and a hummingbird at that, so tireless and delicate is his playing on ICHA. Nothing fishy about this album: add it to your top shelf...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous song is Marie Jose., October 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lightning Over the River (Audio CD)

This song on the album has all of the uplifting characteristics of soukous music. It has a wonderful rhythm, the very soulful talking/singing low male voice and a driving energy.