To become a song about the dream football star |Achim Reichel lands Tikk-Hit in China |Tricky with short film "Lonely Guest" |UNESCO declares Congolese Rumba to be a World Heritage Site |Our news from the world of global pop.
By Marc Mühlenbrock
Burna Boy and Wizkid with a new single "B d’Or" about football stars
New music from a real dream team from Nigeria."B d’Or" is an abbreviation for Ballon d’Or, French for the Golden Ball. This is the famous award for the best footballer of the year, about which Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo regularly argue.The two also occur in the lyrics.Burna Boy and Wizkid sing on Pidgin and Yoruba about a love interest, over clubs, but also about the dreams of their young Nigerian compatriots to become professional footballers themselves, which would be a step into a financially secure future.
Accordingly, "B 'd’Or" is not just a party track, the beat is driving, but the synths in particular are rather mellow to dramatic.A very good mix of Wizkid's Afrobeats pop and Burna Boy's dancehall.One can say: As the year started, it stops, because the two had a common song released in the second week of January.
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Achim Reichel ends up with "Aloha Heja He" a Tikok hit in China
The popular social media platform ensures that long-forgotten old songs come to be aware of newly forgotten old songs in 15-second clips.So also at Achim Reichel: 30 years after the release of "Aloha Heja He", the Hamburg sailor's song on the platform has been used very often in recent months for the accompaniment of photo cakes or challenges.All Tik-Tok.User who do not know the song have identified it with the help of the Shazam music recognition app, so that "Aloha Heja He" has now become number 1 of the Chinese Shazam charts.
Achim Reichel told the Rolling Stone that he himself is incredibly surprised, very happy and proud because the song was so successful by the encouragement of people without any marketing strategy.Seemanns-Shantys-a trend of the year, with "Wellellman" from Schotten Nathan Evans, the most successful song worldwide in 2021, and now also with Achim Reichels "Aloha Heja He" in China.
Tricky with short film "Lonely Guest"
"Lonely Guest" is the name of the almost ten -minute film that has been on YouTube since last night.A kind of gangster love story in which a crook has annoyed the gangster bosses and is hunted by his girlfriend is worried.The setting is Berlin, where the tricky has been living for several years.The short film is rather abstract and poetic, with little dialogues.In the foreground is the music of the Trip Hop Artist again.Tricky's album of the same name, published in October, was an album with many guest stars, analogous to this, there is now an ensemble short film with several main actors.-Legend Lee Scratch Perry, who has now died. In the film we see with Tricky friends, models and singer Marta, with whom he has been touring for a few years.
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UNESCO declares Congolese Rumba to be a World Heritage Site
The Rumba Congolais is the best-known music style on both sides of the Congo River: both in the Congo and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.Synopical percussions and a very melodic sweet vocals come to the sometimes relaxed, sometimes shimmering guitars.Very popular and therefore universally used: whether on a national independence day, at birthday parties or religious festivals.The UNESCO writes in its reasoning: Rumba represents the cultural identity of the people in the Congo and in the diaspora.So far, other musical styles such as reggae have been honored.
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Unusual story
Rumba is a parade example for the so-called Black Atlantic sound.African slaves have kept their rhythms in the Caribbean for centuries- from this, among other things, the rather rough percussive Cuban rumba.Similar rhythm- but only drums and vocals.It then came back to Congo on records in the mid-20th century: the people there recognized it as their music and further developed them with electric guitars into a pop genre Rumba Congolais.Mainly in Lingala or French- the style has spread in many countries in Africa.Most of the time they are love songs.
Politics was always an issue
In the 1950s and 1960s, the style made the style known like Franko or Grand Kallé with his independance cha cha.The song addressed independence from the Belgians and French in 1960 - the year in which seventeen states in Africa became independent.The first prime minister Patrice Lumumba was also sung again and again.The turbulent history of the Congo led to political murders, state pranks and civil wars.The rumba was also used again and again for the glorification of despots.Today it is more peaceful.Patrick Muyaya government spokesman for the Democratic Republic of Congo tweeted: It is a day that is celebrated in both countries.
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