Wednesday. So far from the weekend in either direction. To make matters worse, I had a long day at work after making myself super-tired from a late cheese and wine night. My brain needs something older to pick it up off the floor.

I can’t decide what to post today. Wait, here we go. Brazzaville’s L’Orchestre Tele-Music’s Faux Marie. What a tune. It’s working…

The original ID3 tag tells me that “this group split away from Le Peuple some time between 1975 and 1978. Date of [this] record not known but pre mid 80s.” A little Google research didn’t tell me much about the band at all but apparently they were founded by Ballou Canta, a big name in Congo-Brazzaville music during the late 70s and early 80s.

You can buy a disc (not this one) here. Today’s tune comes off their self-titled album on K-Dance Productions.

…hold on a sec, my friend Mandy just buzzed and she tells me that she got engaged. No fucking way! Apparently this song brings good luck, too. Congrats, Mandy!

ps- zim, you’re a star.

Orchestre Tele-Music – Faux Marie