Recording
Indépendance Cha Cha
Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz
- Released
- 1960
- On one list
- Congolese Rumba
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Analysis
5 sections, no single moment the energy jumps to, 17% of it spent climbing.
- Tempo
- 117.5 BPM
- holds throughout
- Dynamic range
- 2.8 dB
- compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- Phrase
- 8 bars
- the length the arrangement is built on
- Length
- 3:10
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:32Bliftbar 16*
- 0:49Abuildbar 24*
- 1:21Cpeakbar 40*
- 2:13Aoutrobar 65
* starts between phrase lines rather than on one.
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:32
- Energy
- 68
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 79
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build · sung
- Lasts
- 0:17
- Energy
- 79
- Brightness
- 21
- Density
- 32
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:33
- Energy
- 68
- Brightness
- 8
- Density
- 69
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:51
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 8
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · sung · one of 3 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:57
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- lift
- a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build
- build
- energy and brightness climbing without a break
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- outro
- the closing fall
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
Ranked No. 1 in Congolese Rumba
Written in Brussels during the independence negotiations and sung across the continent within weeks. Perhaps the only pop record that functions as a founding document for several countries at once.