Nemone chats to Benda Bilili directors
Music and chat with Nemone, who talks to Benda Bilili directors Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye. Plus more from Nicky Wire's playlist.
A real-life world music fairytale, BENDA BILILI! tells the incredible true story behind Kinshasa's ghetto stars, STAFF BENDA BILILI, and their distinctive musical style; a seductive mix of Congolese rumba, James Brown-esque funk, Cuban mambo, ancestral trance and Jimi Hendrix-esque flourishes.
Ricky has a dream: to make Staff Benda Bilili the best band in Congo, Kinshasa. Roger, a street child, more than ever wants to join these stars of the ghetto, who get around in customized tricycles. Together, they must avoid the pitfalls of the street, stay united and find the force to hope in music.
For six years, from the first rehearsals to the release of their acclaimed debut album and triumph at international festivals, BENDA BILILI! (literal translated as "to look beyond appearances") is the story of this dream come reality. Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye's uplifting film is a frank and intimate portrait of the band, their musical energy and social observation of the realities of life in Kinshasa. BENDA BILILI! is a rare cinematic discovery, like BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, the film is set to lift the lid on the Congolese music scene, revealing a hotbed of extraordinary talent and creativity.
Nemone has invited Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire to sit down and choose 10 tracks he would love to hear played to the 6Music listeners. Over the week you'll hear 5 of the 10 tracks in full chosen by Nicky, but you can go to Nemone's pages at www.bbc.co.uk/6music to see the full tracklistings and listen to a montage of the mix. Listen to the Manics play their special homecoming gig Blackwood Miners Institute recorded for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and played out on 6Music and Radio 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists and click on Manic Street Preachers for more information on Post Cards From A Young Man.
Last on
More episodes
Music Played
-
Pixies
Bone Machine
- 4 A.D..
-
Iron & Wine
Tree By The River
- CD SINGLE.
- 4 A.D..
- 1.
-
Lush
Single Girl
-
Little Barrie
Surf Hell
-
Cloud Control
There's Nothing In The Water We Can't Fight
- CD SINGLE.
- Infectious.
- 1.
-
Love
Alone Again Or
- Knight.
-
Massive Attack
Special Cases
- Virgin.
-
Grinderman
Palaces Of Montezuma
-
The Divine Comedy
Becoming More Like Alfie
- Setanta.
-
The Psychedelic Furs
Pretty In Pink
-
Anna Calvi
Blackout
- CD SINGLE.
- Domino.
- 1.
-
Mazes
Most Days
-
Papercuts
Do What You Will
- Sub Pop.
-
Marvin Gaye
Got To Give It Up
- Tamla Motown.
-
Holy Ghost!
Do It Again
- CD SINGLE.
- DFA/Cooperative.
- 1.
-
Staff Benda Bilili
Tonkara
-
Kate Bush
Sat In Your Lap
- EMI.
-
Avi Buffalo
What's In It For?
-
The Wedding Present
Kennedy
- RCA.
-
Radiohead
Lotus Flower
- The King of Limbs.
- Ticker Tape Ltd..
- 1.
-
The Smiths
Bigmouth Strikes Again
- The Sound Of The Smiths.
- Rhino.
- 14.
-
The Vaccines
If You Wanna
- If You Wanna (Single).
- COLUMBIA.
- 1.
-
Digital Underground
Doowutchyalike
- 100% Rap Originals.
- Tommy Boy Music.
- 13.
-
Graham Coxon
Standing on My Own Again
-
Tu Fawning
Sad Story (Radio Edit)
-
David Bowie
Queen Bitch
- EMI.
-
Fleet Foxes
Helplessness Blues
- Bella Union.
-
The Decemberists
Valerie Plame
-
The White Stripes
Hotel Yorba
- XL.
-
Noah and the Whale
Life Is Life
- Mercury.
-
Soft Cell
Torch
- SOME BIZZARE.
-
Elbow
Lippy Kids
- Fiction.
-
The Only Ones
Another Girl, Another Planet
-
LCMDF
Future Me
- Heavenly Recording.
Broadcast
- Thu 10 Mar 2011 13:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music