{"id":41589,"date":"2019-07-11T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/sammy-massamba-gets-a-new-essential-reedition\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T21:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:29:35","slug":"sammy-massamba-gets-a-new-essential-reedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sammy-massamba-gets-a-new-essential-reedition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Massamba gets a new essential reedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-27386 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sammy-Massamba-Azali.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sammy-Massamba-Azali.jpg 1177w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sammy-Massamba-Azali-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sammy-Massamba-Azali-1010x722.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sammy-Massamba-Azali-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sammy-Massamba-Azali-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sammy-Massamba-Azali-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>British record label\u00a0Vive la Musique\u00a0is republishing a cult afro-disco dancefloor killer by Congolese artist\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/sammy-massamba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sammy Massamba<\/a>.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Five months after the release of\u00a0<em>Propri\u00e9t\u00e9 priv\u00e9e<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/secousse\/\">Secousse<\/a>\u00a0record label<\/span>,\u00a0Congolese producer Sammy Massamba gets another repress. Now, it is a two-track EP taken from his album\u00a0<em>B\u00e9ni soit ton nom<\/em>, originally released in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>After their &#8211; now sold out &#8211; first release\u00a0<em>Tabala<\/em>, Vive la Musique offer their second reedition, a dancefloor-oriented afro-disco cut straight from Congo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R0Z3XTUmIC8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Popular in congo Brazzaville and in Central Africa for his unique blend of Congolese rumba, soukouss, disco and funk, Sammy Massamba was also one of the mentors of the rise of the afro-parisian scene. With its funky bassline, &#8220;Azali&#8221; is a timeless tube with a New-York garage taste, while &#8220;Birika&#8221; is more traditional but just as groovy. Head of record label Aroop Roy also did a more DJ-friendly edit of the A side.<\/p>\n<p><em>Azali<\/em>\u00a0out on September 14th.\u00a0pr\u00e9commandez-le\u00a0surPre-order it on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/vivelamusique.bandcamp.com\/album\/azali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h5>Read Next:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/60-albums-halftime-2019\/\">The best of 2019: halftime edition<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British record label\u00a0Vive la Musique\u00a0is republishing a cult afro-disco dancefloor killer by Congolese artist\u00a0Sammy Massamba. Five months after the release of\u00a0Propri\u00e9t\u00e9 priv\u00e9e\u00a0on\u00a0Secousse\u00a0record label,\u00a0Congolese producer Sammy Massamba gets another repress. Now, it is a two-track EP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":27386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4087,4095,4739,10672],"location":[7934],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41589"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41589"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}