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...CONCERT (Philips) is sung by the Troubadours of Belgium's King Bau-douin-45 Congolese drummers and singers between the ages of nine and 14, who earned the right to their title by delighting the King with a performance of their songs during his 1956 visit to the Congo. Their earlier recording of Luba folk songs and a Mass won them a large international audience. Somehow their leader, Franciscan Father Guido Haazen, makes them sing together with precision and yet seem to be blithely improvising. Theirs are songs for working, praying, playing and dancing. One, sung in Swahili, begins...
...CONGO...
...been cheered to the echo wherever he went. His most delicate mission, however, was to soothe the 4,000 grumbling ex-gendarmes who once served him admirably in the old secessionist days, and who had waited with forlorn fidelity in Angola during Tshombe's exile from the Congo. Now the troops were billeted uncomfortably in railroad boxcars at the mining town of Kolwezi, and demonstrated their ugly mood by refusing to let trains enter or leave the station...
...rusty riches. Their assemblages look back on Marcel Duchamps' "ready-mades," or store-bought hardware, and Picasso's "found objects." Paolozzi also once combined bits of cameras, clocks, toys and bombsights into figures that looked like archaic idols or, as he said, "the fetishes of a Congo witch doctor." Now his work sets up a more modern paradox between engineering and art, and his breakaway from traditional values has made him spiritual uncle (where Henry Moore is spiritual father) to younger British artists. Says Paolozzi: "People still think of sculpture only as bronzes. It's unconceivable...
...membership of the Committee reflects the realities of African politics. Tanganyika and the Congo were chosen undoubtedly because of their geographical proximity to southern Africa, while the three countries having the largest armies, Algeria, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Republic, also happen to be members...