Missa Luba (1963) Vinyl LP • Mass, Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin, Africa Congo

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10-page booklet attached to inner-gate. 'Connoisseur Collection Philips' seal/sticker on front. Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Textured gate-fold cover has mild-scuffing (front/back); slight discoloration with a few darker spots (front/back/inner-gate). Inner-sleeve is generic white. Spine is easy-to-read with mild wear. Shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening shows signs of use and divots. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Dibwe Diambula Kabanda (Marriage Song)
2. Lutuku & A Bene Kanyoka (Emergence From Grief)
3. Ebu Bwale Kemai (Marriage Ballad)
4. Katumbo (Dance)
5. Seya Wa Mama Ndalamba (Marital Celebration)
6. Banana (Soldiers Song)
7. Twai Tshinaminai (Work Song)
8. Kyrie
9. Gloria
10. Credo
11. Sanctus
12. Benedictus
13. Agnus Dei

About The Record:

Missa Luba is a setting of the Latin Mass sung in styles traditional to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was composed by Fr Guido Haazen, a Franciscan friar from Belgium, and originally celebrated, performed, and recorded in 1958 by Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin (English: "King Baudouin's Troubadours"), a choir of adults and children from Kamina, Katanga Province. It would later become the partial basis for a Congolese usage of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite Mass, the Zaire Use.