That journey started in Leopoldville, or Kinshasa—as for Congolese musicians, now as then, it always does.

温杜老爹的音乐之旅始于利奥波德维尔（或称金沙萨）——不管是过去还是现在，对于刚果音乐家来说，这里总是一切开始的起点。

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That journey started in Leopoldville, or Kinshasa as for Congolese musicians, now as then, it always does.

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Five hundred miles downstream is a colonial capital Leopoldville, now known as Kinshasa.

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Pierre Brazza's rival, the British explorer Henry Morton Stanley, mythologised through his search for Livingstone, reached the far shore, establishing a trading post that was to become the town of Leopoldville.

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