Music
Kasuku - Audio Album
KASUKU is a deeply personal and introspective 14-track album by Congolese trumpeter and singer Yeremia Vindu, born and raised in Goma, in the North-Kivu region of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
More than a musical project, KASUKU is a portrait — a sonic and emotional reflection of what it means to grow up, dream, struggle, hope, and become an adult in a place marked by conflict, resilience, culture, and complexity.
The album is, for Yeremia, the perfect definition of a young person from Goma, from North Kivu, from Eastern DRC — shaped by war and instability, guided by family values, rooted in Nande culture, influenced by religion and politics, and carried forward by determination and imagination.
Through this work, he speaks openly about his origins, his memories, his contradictions, and the transformation he experienced after the birth of his daughter, Mia.
Artistically, KASUKU weaves together Jazz, Congolese Rumba, and the musical colors of East Africa, embracing freedom, hybridity, and movement. The album blends languages — Swahili, Kinande, Lingala, French, and English — echoing the multicultural reality of life in the borderlands of the Great Lakes region.
The title KASUKU (Parrot) symbolizes voice, repetition, memory, and testimony. Yeremia “speaks” through the album — questioning identity, revisiting history, honoring heritage, and confronting the tension between who we are told to be and who we become.
Musically, the project draws inspiration from artists such as Fela Kuti, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Franco Luambo, and Lokua Kanza, while remaining grounded in Yeremia’s own artistic language — reflective, soulful, playful, and emotionally raw.
KASUKU is at once a confession, a celebration, and a stand — a tribute to the youth of Eastern Congo, to survival, to doubt, to love, to hope, and to the power of music to tell stories that words alone cannot carry.
