Go to skyscrapercity.com find the section about congo and you will find lots of old photos. If some photos has a broken link, ask the guys to reupload them.
To me, Roga Roga is a big talent, but the truth is, hearing from him such words at the moment is simply ridiculous. Well, if we were in 2003, I would find it at least understandable (though not nice) from him talking like that, but for god's sake, we are in 2020, 14 years after Extra's last good album. Since then he couldn't come up with anything really interesting. So I don't understand at all why he is so proud of himself. Instead of talking, he should be working hard to produce a listenable album. If he didn't produce anything before 2007, and he should be evaluated from the work done since then, he would be a small figure in the African music scene. He is in serious lag regarding quality, he should work on imroving this instead of faming himself.
I rarely listen to her, her songs are not really my taste, but I do respect her, she is talented. If I'd need to mention somebody serious among the female singers in Congo recently, I could easily choose her.
You can see a video here of the composing of a full congolese tune. The second guitar is the mi-solo. It functions just as another melody line in the tune to make the sound richer. Sometimes musicians add even more, like 4 guitar lines.
I remembered wrongly, it is not the concert with the big portrait, rather like the setting similar to the Mulolo video clip. It's a shame almost nothing can be heared from the solo guitar.
There is a video from the 80's where they play several tunes that were released later. There is a big Mobutu portrait on the wall at the back of the stage, that is what I remember from the scene. The concert seems interesting, but the upload I checked has terrible sound. I wonder if that concert is available somewhere with decent sound. I would love to see that uploaded.
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