Ladies and gentlement, I am planning of openning a rhumba pub in July, hopefully. I need my bar to be showing videos of hot rhumba artists, past and present. DVDs are most prefered .
I have noticed that the CD/Shop subforum is not adequate to get feedback. I sent sly a similar topic in PM, he has not answered.
So which website is secure and has a lot of congolese music dvds for sale.
I saw this interview on our tv, a recorded one during his last tour. Two issues if interest, he said he is not Christian and was when he was young. On the question whether he was a rumba artist, he claimed he was not but a multipurpose one.......his English has improved though.
Lastly when asked about koffi, he avoided the subject. I wish I had the video.
Over the years, the excitement that comes from Congo Music has gone down exponentially. This is attributed to the fact that old bands/artists are losing the energy and because of the ''pollution'' coming from the western music fashion...thirdly, music has centred too much on Fally, Ferre, Koffi Olomide, JB, Werrason and to some extent, Wembadio, Tshala Mwana etc, but these are just individuals that probably will not give you anything new now. Congolese bands are concentrating on one character too much, which overshadows other band members and this does not promote free flow of artists the way we saw it in the old Zaiko, Wenge, Noveau Encriture, Empire Bakuba, Extra Musica etc. To sum it all, competition has been killed.
The solution is for a band (s) like Extra musica, wenge musica to emerge and challenge the sleeping giants of congolese music. Can you imagine if Abraham Mignon, Nono Fuji, Zakoko, Zulema, Abel, Atshuda, Didi Kalombo, Bebeto, Patou solo etc, formed a band?....you will have 3 albums coming from them every year unlike this time were an album comes out after two years. Its pathetic....
Werrason is in the country....I forgot to tell you guys....he has again been invited by the Agriculture Show Society and he will deliver a show at Mulungushi International Conference Centre Today.....fingers crossed, someone is giving me a free ticket today....if they do, I will go, they dont, I wont....