Jupiter & Okwess - Na Kozonga

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Jupiter & Okwess - "Na Kozonga," a 2020 single on Everloving Records.

The phrase "Na Kozonga" translates to "the return" in the Congolese language of Lingala, and that's what Jupiter & Okwess was looking forward to after the 180-date worldwide tour promoting their 2017 album Kin Sonic: returning home. The song is dedicated to bandleader Jupiter Bokondji's father, who passed away recently, and the accompanying music video, filmed in his hometown of Kinshasa, shows the musician boarding a plane to return to his family in Africa, with a "metaphysical" detour. Afropop.org reports the song is about “a mystical universe strewn with spirits and African allegorical incarnations, from Mami Wata (Mummy water) to Aniotas.”

The song is a cover of "Gotta Go Home," a 1979 single by German disco-funk group Boney M, which was a re-written take on the 1973 track "Hallo Bimmelbahn" by brothers Heinz and Jürgen Huth. "Na Kozonga" is the title track from Jupiter & Okwess' forthcoming full-length, which is scheduled for release in 2021.

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0:00.0	Oh, I can't I marin
0:15.0	N I don't bawlid tumbulat. Arn.
0:25.0	N tumble lip, tumble, tumble, tamboula, tamboula, he.
0:27.0	He'll be d'amblea, dambulae.
0:28.0	He'll be madder a country me's in cetre.
0:33.0	Who came on from me in Africa
0:36.0	in Africa
0:39.0	in Africa
0:40.0	in Africa in Africa
0:44.0	by me Africa By me
0:46.0	By home
0:48.0	home
0:50.0	Napozong Napozong Naco Zunga.
0:53.0	I'm gunga.
0:55.0	I was, this one, I can't decide.
1:01.0	Not the bull, is the tumble, a tumble and a mokey yup.
1:07.0	He'll be a tumble, my dear a country, me's unsafe.
1:12.0	Okay, man, for me, he. My family in Africa. You're my family in Africa.
1:19.0	You're my family,
1:18.0	You my family,
1:21.0	my family, my cleaner, my grandfather.
1:23.0	Nakuzonda.
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