Boma Bango – featuring musicians Daniel Coolik (electric guitar/mandolin), Glenn Fields (drums and percussion), Trey Boudreaux (electric bass), and Bill Smith (congas, percussion, marimba) – explores the rich Cuban-Congolese musical interchange. The band mined its material and inspiration from a multitude of musical acts (including Congolese luminaries like Franco Luambo, Docteur Nico and Tabu Ley Rochereau) that cross pollinated Spanish language and latin rhythm with French African and Rumba melodies, emerging in orchestral Cuban sounds in the early 1920s and traveling back to Africa – and specifically The Congo – post WWII.