At the end of the 70s, Congolese guitarist Sammy Massamba set up the group Matadi, named after the Zairean port on the Atlantic Ocean, in Paris for the purposes of an Italian tour. The group’s only album followed, Dance My Love, which among other things served as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, now lost in the obscure abyss of cinema. Massamba does what he does best: irresistible Afro-disco-funk, with occasional Bensonian accents, accompanied by musicians from Cameroon (the excellent bassist Aladji Touré), Côte d’Ivoire, France… Previously unobtainable, Dance My Love was re-released last year by the La Freak and Zamal Funk labels, and it would be wrong to sulk!
Dance My Love – Matadi, 1978
