I was more in Clan Wengé, Nouvelle Ecriture and Quartier Latin. I started to find Zaiko’s music to old, not innovating and music of “ba tata mibimba” like my friends. Baza ko rond point kaka hahahaha.
I forgot to mention, I liked also Cele Mbonda’s song and the sebene of Monica Bussiness Women (because of papy cocaïne), the rest of Poison was for me muehh.
I think the reason that you did not find it interesting is because they have not made their studio albums for a long time similar to the Live Versions. Many of the records released since 1999 is better live than on the album. In the studio versions, the sebene melodies are shortened, they are like "trailers" of the live show. Their recent record: Bande Annoance is a step forward in this sense, because they made it very similar to how they play it on stage.
This is why most of their old albums is better to listen to, because it is very much like the stage experience.
It is interesting that I meet Congolese people frequently, but all of them are from Bas-Congo or Bandundu. Never met anyone from other places like Boende, Lumumbasi or Mbandaka.
I think Nippon Banzai is not a very good album. It is a quite poor summary of their work which had much more interesting highlights. They recorded way much better live sessions than that, never understood why Nippon Banzai was pushed more than those.
If you are a beginner, you should start with:
Piéces a Conviction, Zaiko Dansez Othule, Subissez Les Consequences, Nous Y Sommes, Live Maquis GB (Les trois glorieuses) and the album titled: Zaiko Familia Dei
These albums are full of great sebens and have a very good sound.
He is not a very famous soloist, but has a unique technique to play the seben, so whenever he is on stage it is easy to recognise him. This technique is like when someone would be playing solo with strumming.
Don't forget about the "pope" of soukous: Dr. Sakis, who is a Brazza musician, along with his mate: Dany Engobo, who were already well established artists by the beginning of the 90's:
Okay, everyone should archive favoutires. Next year if things go bad, we can discuss if we could make the saved things available to each other somehow.
One thing is sure, if you upload, you can create a nonlisted channel that you share here, those are less likely to be spotted by copyright watchdogs. Members will see the channel but it won't appear in the search in Youtube,
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