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With it is driving beat and spidery, dual guitar lines, Congolese band Loboko is exactly the kind of band that would have a packed crowd on their feet at the Folk Festival Dance Pavilion.

They are coming to Richmond due to the efforts of an emerging alliance of local and regional promoters, expanding performance opportunities for world musicians.

Getting the chance to see them up close, among the gilded skeletons and fairy lights at Révéler Experiences, is an exceptionally rare opportunity.

While they call their music “post-Soukous,” their approach is actually a return to fundamentals for an African style that has, over the decades, scaled up, sped up and become encrusted with electronica.

Guitarist Yohni Djungu-Sungu and drummer Morgan Greenstreet developed the band’s retro-future concept while playing behind successful contemporary Soukous artists.

“We felt the environment wasn’t really the setting we wanted,” Greenstreet says.

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