http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm African music treasures is a Voice of America blog that allows you to discover rare African recordings from the VOA's unique African music library. Many of the recordings featured on the blog are unreleased recordings of traditional and contemporary music that were originally recorded for the VOA program MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA. en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:27:53 -0000 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:50:00 -0000 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mlavoie@voanews.com mlavoie@voanews.com http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=191C4E83-F7E2-6128-C86BB136DFD3617F Today I have got a few tracks from one of my favorite recordings in our collection for you. The tape (reel) in question was sent to the Voice of America by the US embassy in Brazzaville back in October of 1961. A memo accompanying the tapes (the Bantous reel was accompanied by an Orchestre Novelty reel) explains that these recordings were 'graciously provided' to the Voice of America by 'the Director of Radio Congo, Brazzaville'.I have always found Congolese recordings from the late 1950s and ea... Congo Brazzaville Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:50:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=191C4E83-F7E2-6128-C86BB136DFD3617F