In his quarter-century of music-making, soukous master Pepe Kalle has moved from dense, rumba-based arrangements, with guitar filling in for the piano parts, to sinewy, stripped-down party music ...

We follow with a longer dance song from 1992 featuring Pepe Kalle (aka La Bombe Atomique de la Rumba Congolais e), Simaro, and Carlito. This personal favorite of mine stretches out to over 10’ long ...

We follow with a longer dance song from 1992 featuring Pepe Kalle (aka La Bombe Atomique de la Rumba Congolais e), Simaro, and Carlito. This personal favorite of mine stretches out to over 10’ long ...

Beginning. Pepe Kalle, under the Kadima trio of Kabaselle, Dilu Dilumona and Matolu Dode (Papy Tex) founded Empire Bakuba (named after an ancient Kuba Mweka Kingdom in Kasai Province) in 1972.