This album is incorrectly filed. The Missa Luba is a version of the Latin Mass arranged for and performed by an African Choir. It was originally composed by Father Guido Haazen,a missionary who arrived in the Congo in 1953 from Belgium. In 1954 he founded "Les Troubadours du Roi Baudoin" as a choir of 45 boys aged 9 to 14 and 15 teachers from Central School in Kamina. In 1958 the ensemble toured Europe to acclaim, at one point singing with the Vienna Boys Choir. There was a high degree of improvisation in the performances, based around traditional song forms.

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