Missa Luba 1965: Sanctus (B4)

[convolvulus1]

Can we get Missa Luba in CD form these days?

[jimmyaloha]

i had this on vinyl too ..... if i remember correctly the liner notes were by the late great 'studs terkel' .... gorgeous!

[dollyknockers]

@TOMMY95215 you're correct, it was Malcolm.

[AriP99]

I believe this was in the movie with Roddie McDowell: If

[TOMMY95215]

@AriP99 I thought it was Malcolm mcdowell? If....

[MegaKrishan123]

Love it! This is living proof that the mass can be said in Latin and still have life.

[lauwai4life]

I'm amazed so many of us still have our original albums. The 60s -- revolution was in the air and this music was part of the soundtrack.

[amusingscreenname]

Run! Run in the corridors!

[pussypop100]

@amusingscreenname strange thing we had a teacher who also rode his bike in the corridors too he was english mr gerard or mad gerard as he was known and i went to a tough scottish school and for an englishman to be be liked you had to be something special and that man was oh happy memories

[sirtinycreep]

I always remember this from the film IF. Mick Travis plays it in his bedroom. LOL.

[robleeatheart]

Still have my original as well ...

[stefanoimpagliazzo]

qualcuno ha la partitura musicale??

plese have you the note score??

[payitforwardeddie]

Still have my original copy of this album on vinyl. Love this and Benedictus.

[vanguard2k1]

I guess this is the proper means of inculturation, unlike what liberal clergy claims otherwise.

[postdrop]

Gay. But not in a bad way!

[postdrop]

Gay.

[nhojewoh]

One of my all time favourites.

[afepple1]

This kind of music touches right at your heart. Thanks for putting it on youtube.

[JungoBoi123]

This makes me extremely proud to be not only of the Congo, but of the Luba tribe! I wish more people could hear this heavenly music! Absolutely beautiful!

[Petra1001uk]

I own this LP. Took me 10 years to find it. This song had a profound effect on me having been played by the boy's sports teacher at school. It was played in the film 'It'.

[ThePuljo]

@Petra1001uk the film was 'IF'

[ryetripper]

This track and Beethoven's Ninth were played by a radio station in Kisangani in Congo during the civil war. They became the signal for both sides to temporarily stop fighting. Powerful stuff. Read Paul Pickering's The Leopard's Wife.

[harshtart]

This is so haunting, I'm having this at my funeral.

[22chezza22]

@harshtart we played it recently at my mums funeral (beautiful).

[22chezza22]

@harshtart

[bertistp]

About 10 years ago our choir sang this when i got married... I´m still loving it! ;-)

[XBoomLondresX]

Our choir sang this and African Sanctus at a Colere concert w/ The Mississippi Chorus last year. It was beautiful. :) NWRHS Choir. 2009-11.

[bobfari]

Africa at its best... drumming and chanting, Africa is top of my "100 Places To See Before I Die " list

[bobfari]

Africa at its best.., drumming and chanting

[blackfootnavajo]

when im walking, this is my background music at the moment :D

[bccmee]

This song also featured in the sky1 broadcast of Strike Back recently (now available on DVD). I made a fanvid with this song and clips from Strike Back. Thanks for the upload...amazing music!

[jamieson88]

yesssssss...I love this ong!

[lobo8136]

muito bom mesmo interpretar esta linda obra,....

e tive esta oportunidade,aqui no meu estado, no norte do Brasil,em Belém do Pará.

juntamente com grandes feras...!!!!

[OhNoItsGojira]

"There's only one thing you can do with a girl like this. Walk naked into the sea together as the sun sets. Make love once... Then die."

[himalajan]

@ozzymandi Yes, the Danish TV just shown the FABULOUS movie If...

Great for us old boyz (born in 1948) relive, re-feel the great 60-ies. Just the shot of the BSA-dealerships with rows and rows of spanking, shining bikes sent shivers down my spine! After the movie I went straight to youtube and this great music!

[ozzymandi]

Hi ermojaquero

Thanks !

I think this is where Malcolm McDowell "Cut his teeth" for his even more disturbing role as Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

He is a good actor though.

[ozzymandi]

I think this music was used in the film" If."

I just wondrer if anyone can remember .

Or am I just getting old?

[francoise51]

@ozzymandi no no ...i rmember it well was still at school made a great impression on me.. actually I bought the remastered dvd a few months ago still good to watch .....

[francoise51]

@ozzymandi but am still looking for the cd ...

[ermojaquero]

Yes - it was in the film. I went to the school where (and while) they filmed it. Malcolm MacDowell's first film.

[Euterpe1952]

@ermojaquero

I was at the Ladies' Coll and really identified with "If". Modern teenagers love their boarding schools- can't imagine them making such a film now!

[ozzymandi]

NICE.

I really like this music.

Thanks for the posting.

Oz

[Azizip17]

Thank you very much for posting this excerpt of this equisitely beautiful recording. I LOVE the Missa Luba record. I played it A LOT and I love both sides of the record-the mass and the traditional singing. But sometime in the 1980s I lost my copy of this incomparable record.

I've been looking for the Missa Luba record for years with no success. I'm delighted to know that at least some of the original record is on YouTube. Thanks again for your post!!!

[antag0nismo]

Great post and good video.

[sauerlemon]

Jimmy Page recommends Missa Luba in the February 2010 issue of Mojo magazine. I grew up with the record in my house. My dad, who's a good 49 years older than me, tried to get me to listen when my age was in the single digits. I didn't get it then. Next time I visit, I'll tell him the guitarist of Led Zeppelin recommended I give Missa Luba another try and see what he says.

[PAULLONDEN]

Not convinced yet,to me it sounds like some good intentioned missionary herded these people in his churchhall,and and recorded it for curiosity value,

As Brian Jones did with 'The Pipes Of Pan" he should have recorded this in the open air.

It sounds too much like Africanized mass

Btw...sauerlemon...Do you get it now ?.

[PAULLONDEN]

I dare to bet ,Pagey was only interested for curiosity value,as he more or less admitted,he wouldn't dismiss it in the face of Mike Leander (Decca producer)and pretended to be openminded.

Even to this day he doesnt know what 'Missa Luba'" means.Whell,Jim....'missa"spea­ks for itself...mass...'luba' is 'Bantu language'

In other words....'Mass In Bantu'.

[lusophile47]

@PAULLONDEN

it is in effect an Africanised mass - not sure what the problem with that is - as to the missionary comment/herding/curiosity etc - quite pejorative/agenda laden language - I've been to plenty of Masses in Africa run by African clergy for Africans - with no involvement of missionaries or need to be herded in.

[steve273]

i love this and have it on cd-but this is good to have on youtube for ease of access-so thank u very much for uploading it-the scene from the film if when this is played is wonderful-

[Slipjig9]

Wow! this is really beautiful!  love it <3

[mbishop76]

It has been reissued on CD.

But to my joy, I'm used to hearing it sourced from "If...." and great old Philips records--crackle pops and all, because you can FEEL the joy everyone who listened to that old record before you felt.

But wonderful news for all in time for Christmas.

[ReDeads]

This touches my heart.. :)

[dollydot123]

What's so amazing is there is no musical accompaniment. Only the drum and the chior's voices.

[valocilf]

First heard this at convent school! Then on the movie "IF" fantastic-- loved it ever since still have the LP vinyl somewhere.

[saladlegs]

shag off you creeps! :P

[autofiljoe]

nob

[saladlegs]

u clearly havn't watched "if...." u'd have got the reference otherwise

[lucretius4]

I used to have this on vinyl. Wonderful singing.

[billyb4223]

Yeh, We've still got it. Its a funny little thing, I think the major fact being that its only 1 1/2 minutes long...

[buzianyadatutube]

@lucretius4 I tought you took an arrow to the knee.

[TheDirk1928]

i watched the film if in the early 70s and it has took me till now to find the name of the music missa luba amazing sound

[machiav3ll3]

delicious !

It's so beautiful !!!!

I'm not a believer, not at all, but that kind of music is so beautiful, specially that one....i cant help it !.

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Delicieux!

C'est tellement magnifique !

Je ne suis pas croyante, du tout, mais ce genre de musique, celle ci très spécialement, est trop magnifique, je ne peut m'en empêcher !

:O)

-Thankx for posting this!-

-Merci d'avoir posté ceci !-

[beujah02]

moi c'est le film " if " de Lindsay Anderson et Malcolm McDowell qui me l'a fais kiffer ;) clr pas besoin d'etre croyant

[machiav3ll3]

Un film tout aussi génial que cette chansons !

Moi aussi, c'est comme ça que je l'ai découvert.

Juste après le film, j'ai rechercher cette chanson.

: O )

[beujah02]

la mm ! j'ai mis 310 jours pour la retrouver et ce grace au site w a t z a t s o n g . c o m il m'ont trouvé le titre aujourd'hui ^^ j'ai deja tel l'album sur mininova rooh

[machiav3ll3]

310 jours !!!!!!!!!

Tu la voulais et c'est vrai !

:O)

Ça vaut la peine de télécharger l'album ?

Tu m'en diras des nouvelles, si tu veux bien.

[pimpmyborat]

First heard this on the film If...

fantastic film it was and a great soundtrack to.

[conspiracysyndrome]

the church and sunday masses should have more of these type of hymns! ahhh so majestically beautiful to the soul!

[jollywigs]

Magic....just magic! Thanks for the posting!

[zefrafo]

Eu tive este disco lá pelos anos 70, presente de um grande amigo. Depois foi-se, e volto a encontrá-lo agora!

Linda música, velhos tempos de África!

[kate285]

Remember this from the film IF,  beautiful, thankyou.

[inbano68]

la escuche por primera vez como parte de la banda sonora de la pelicula "IF" , y quede impresionado por la interpretacion, es sencillamente impactante tuve el LP en vinilo pero ya no, la peicula era genial tambien .¿será posible conseguirla actualmente?

[lesleyjeanne]

Thank you for posting this it is amazing and reminds me of my youth....x

[hsoenario]

This is hauntingly beautiful. Deep and melancholy, yet full of life's energy. Thanks for posting this. I bought the original LP too.

It was around that time that Phillips issued another exotic mass the Misa Criolla.

I have collected 2 more African masses:

Zaire with children choir of Lwiro Catholic Church and Mass and Hyms from Monestery of Keur Moussa, Senegal.

There is on cd Missa Mexicana and Misa Tango.

[lusophile47]

Amazing - I spent a few years working in Africa (Mozambique) and my most enjoyable experience (as a non Catholic!) was going to Mass where the music style was very similar to this - literally would have shivers running up your back - fantastic!

[bkatayab]

you can purchase a CD on Amazon for under 12.00 good luck, this is amazing music

[misterHEEB]

This is amazing, I first heard it on the film 'if' ages ago! Does anyone know where I could get a good quality version?

[zagdib]

I discovered this when I was 16 years old (more than 45 years ago !).

I re-discovered this one day ago. It's an emotion for me.

Thanks to the people who put this on YouTube.

[acotw67]

Deo Gratias!I still have a copy on vinyl,and this Sanctus was the second piece we learned we learned in my grammar school's choir-the

first was Mozart's Exultante,Jubilante.Later came the full mass.This is a perfect example of "catholic"-the traditional liturgy is in place,in Latin,but the music & instruments are indigenous.We loved traditional hymns & motets in English or Latin-even though we were all born after VaticanII.See the St. John's Parish video here-it's wonderful.THANKS!

[dunnonuffink]

Ah, god, I had a tape of this when cassette tapes were a newish thing. It snarled up, and I couldn't buy a new one.

I thought I'd never be able to hear it again.

From the bottom of my heart, thanks for posting it. And the whole thing, too!

[lunalunera333]

simplemente...maravillosa!!

[crisnadruz]

Tenho esse vinil até hoje: era da minha mãe e, quando quero "falar com Deus" coloco no toca-discos (!) e danço.

[bahwenge]

This is a CLASSIC.

[fluffykittens4]

Grew up with the sounds of Missa Luba - wonderful to hear the sound again! Evokes powerful memories of childhood.........

[flowersandflowers]

Just beautiful

[mikevinegar]

The album is being re-released this Monday

[Bushbaby387]

I haven't seen the "Lost and Delirious" movie, but can tell you that this track was used wonderfully in Lyndsay Anderson's "If" - the film that shoehorned Malcom McDowell into the part of "Alex" in Clockwork Orange

[jollywigs]

God will never write a better song...just stunning...Ah the Missa Luba, should be compulsory in every school...a miracle! Thanks for the posting!

[metalmulishaxo]

lost and delirious is a fantastic movie this song goes along perfect with the end

[WillowMaclay]

I never would have discovered this group without the movie, Lost and Delirious, beautifully placed there.

[dickdona]

Is this the only African sung mass? If anyone knows of another please post. I have heard one in India in Hindi but can't source it.

[LJOUWERD]

See if you can get hold of the Missa Creole or Missa Flamenco. You will love them

[Gwaihirintheair]

it's been wonderful to find "The Missa Luba"!!! I used to enjoy listening to it since an uncle of mine had the long playing record. Then he died and I could never find neither listen to it again!!! Thanks very much!!!

[jjillylilly]

great as bach or beethoven, maybe greater