Interesting interview. He mentions three things I have noted.
1. Classic songs normally come as a result of the author being inspired by certain events and in that moment they write and compose a song which almost always esimbaka e.g Inc'allah is a classic song written by an author inspired by real life events. While the songs were the author sits down to with the intention of writing a song most times those songs never become successful. Eza lokola ozo force eloko. We could actually do a thread for songs that have been released but we can clearly tell that here, the song writer was forcing himself to write a song he wasnt inspired by anything. Lol
2. In the olden days its the instrumentalists who had more say to how a song will be sung, the melody but nowadays it's the opposite, it's the singers (imagine Tata Mobich telling ba guitarists how a song will be played, lol) who are telling the instrumentalist how a song should sound or be played no wonder we have a lot of average songs nowadays being released. That's not to say a singer can't propose how a song should be played.
3. The synthe or clavier has rendered the guitarists useless in rumba music (partly the reason why the genre is at its lowest) because practically a whole song will be played with only the synthe and then a guitarists will be asked to add a small partition which actually limits the creativity and the freedom to express himself through the guitar. No wonder we have artists nowadays going in studio at 10hrs, by 14hrs they release a song. Kokamwa!
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