Thursday 6 September
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm

Royal Albert Hall

Late nights, World music and jazz

Seats £12-£16 Price Band D

Promming on the day for £5

About this event

Staff Benda Bilili
Baloji

Staff Benda Bilili are like nothing you have ever seen or heard before: a group of paraplegic street musicians and ex-street kids from the Democratic Republic of Congo, making music rooted in Soukous (or African rumba) with elements of old-school rhythm and blues, reggae and funk.

‘Afropean’ Congolese-born, Belgian-educated rapper Baloji mixes old and cutting-edge sounds with bitingly modern lyrics. But his most recent album finds him returning to his motherland in search of musical understanding and communal improvisation.

For more details please see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/september-06/14338

You can learn more about Staff Benda Bilili by watching the DVD at SOAS Library –  http://lib.soas.ac.uk/search/t?SEARCH=Benda+bilili+

Baloji’s Hotel Impala is also available at SOAS Library – http://lib.soas.ac.uk/search/?searchtype=Y&searcharg=baloji&SORT=D