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"We never used drums, we used maracas - and we didn't thrash it out, it was gentle. That's rumba. When you play rumba and people are dancing, they're relaxed," Dawa Lusambu, the artistic director of TPOK Jazz, told the BBC's Emery Makumeno in Kinshasa.