Bonga Mona Ki Ngi Xica

This is one of the best songs I've ever heard in my life. Bonga Kwenda is an African musician/singer from Angola, and of mixed Portuguese & Angolan descent. This was recorded in 1972. It's lyrics were subversive enough to get him arrested and kicked out of his country by the Portuguese colonial occupiers. A few years later Angola gained independence, and he was able to return. The song is a simple, sublime ballad consisting of only acoustic guitar, a conga drum, and Bonga's amazing voice, sung in his native Kimbuntu language. Close your eyes and you are lazily drifting in a small fishing boat under the stars. This song is perfection.