#rumba

Le Seigneur Rochereau* & L'African Fiesta National Le Peuple* ‎– Le Seigneur Rochereau (196?) African ‎– 360.012 (FRA)

Congolese artist make the best love songs 🤷‍♀️

So

He was in the basement shop with Emet & I was in my studio on the first floor. He came up to investigate the mailman, walked through my studio... stopped, turned around, came back, and sat down at my feet like

🥺

Stubbornly got in the way every time I tried to work around him

Until I got up and was like okay, I can't have you in here with the fumes, let's go upstairs.

Now, I gotta say, I had some of the stinkiest stuff I work with open: UV resin, uv gel polish, color blooming gel. But he just walked through and went woooooah. Turn around, self! Go check on Mom! You're picking up a Bad Smell on him!

Got halfway up the stairs and wooaaahhh... oh, hmm, okay, Rumba, I'll check my blood sugar. I've been working for a few hours.

I was not yet in a dangerous place, but if I hadn't stopped working when I did and gotten up to go upstairs to shower, eat, and rest, I... would have had a hard time getting up the stairs safely, at minimum.

Getting used to how quickly my sugar can drop off these new meds, and how careful I have to be to eat an actual real breakfast and not vaguely wave part of a croissant and a coffee at my stomach and call it food, but at least I've got Rumba looking after me.

Anduku Lutshuma - Roitelet & O.K Jazz

1956 Subtle, swaying and irresistibly melodic congolese rumba