<cite>@Sylvester said:</cite> Great info,i bet you had a great time meeting a great guitarist like him!! I can't seem to play the video I don't know why?
it was really beyond awesome. he's really a cool guy. i actually met his son earlier this year (tresor manuaku) and helped him film a video when he came to visit NYC for the first time. i hope to meet his other son gael who also plays guitar.
As for the video that's strange it works for me. try going straight to youtube maybe and type in "Guy Angrand Souci Mady" it should be the first search result.
I have mentioned before (on the previous website Vibes d'Afrique) that I am a descendent if you will of Zaiko Langa Langa. My great uncle (my mother's uncle) is Mbuta Matima Mpiosso.
My father met my mother through a friend who was dating my mother's aunt. Her and her aunt happened to be close in age and hung out together. One day my father accompanied his friend to go see my mom's aunt that he was dating. This day they actually met at a Zaiko Langa Langa rehearsal. it was there that my father met not only my mother but members of Zaiko Langa Langa.
My father formed friendships with some of the band members, but in particular Pepe Felly. This friendship brought about this beautiful composition which was written by my father in haitian-kreyol and translated with the help of Gina Wa Gina, called Souci Mady:
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Pepe Felly and his band Les Yatoupas play the music and my father is the lead vocalist. Any way from that time on my father and Pepe Felly have kept in touch. In the early 2000s they embarked on a project that due to unforseen circumstances was abandoned. Finally over the last month my father, Guy Angrand, (host of Tambour d'Afrique on www.radiotriomphe.com) and Pepe Felly were reunited and have been working on this project. This passed sunday I went to visit my father and was finally able to meet the man, the myth, the legend!
First I must say he is a very very kind soul. He is humble and open to working with anyone who has the same level of passion as him in music. My brother's friend who is a guitarist wanted to meet him and he jammed with him in my brother's room for a little more than an hour. Pepe even went so far as to learn from my brother's friend whose strengths are in Blues guitar and Pepe is interested in learning more. As great of a guitarist that he is he is always open to learning even if it is from a 22 year old young man.
I will not post pictures for his privacy. If you follow him on facebook though you will see pictures of him and my family in front of my father's house. It was an honor to meet him. He considers us to be his family and we the same. Finally my connection to Zaiko Langa Langa feels legit. He said to us that Matima was his brother so we are his nieces and nephew. He is Tonton Pepe to me, now. I just wanted to share with you all because it really made me happy to meet him and to know that he has this bond with my dad. Although he is younger than my father, my father does admire him and it was cool to see them hanging out and discussion music among other things.
Right now Pepe Felly is kind of on a U.S. tour. He came earlier in the summer for a few concerts in Pittsburgh and DC and has another in Chicago on September 8th with Congo Fest. My father is helping him perhaps get more dates in NYC before he returns to Europe. I hope to maybe record a track with them for their project before he returns.
Without giving any details I am going through some rough things in my life right now so this weekend really was a pick me up. I hope you all are well. Peace....
i also noticed a while ago that album some album covers are getting more and more 'goth' and things like that. you find artists wearing more skull and crossbones and things like that. as for them going to shaman to cast spells and such for success. i can definitely believe that.
you know. i've been actually researching this sort of thing as far as the music and entertainment industry in the united states. once i saw the cover to A2BM (fally ipupa) i knew there were people on his marketing team or record company (or both) dealing with certain symbology and spreading subconscious messages.
<cite>@Sylvester said:</cite> When am DJ'ing I always cut stop the song when it gets to that part! It's one problem I find with Werra and Wazekwa too,you cannot play their generiques in full because people on the dancefloor think it's you the DJ messing up yet that's how the music was recorded no wonder these days I find it better to play the old generiques like Titanic,Solola Bien etc not these good for nothing 14 minute sebenes full of monotonie,the only good thing about the new generiques is the solo guitar,it's getting complicated and that's what I like,any generique without or with muted or chopped up solo guitar just puts me off.
ha! i can definitely understand your frustration as a dj.
i can honestly say it is my favorite generique. i've stated several times before i'm not really a fan of generiques. i prefer the old style where a song starts slow then goes into a sebene as opposed to the whole song being sebene and not much singing and also not being able to understand the atakalus most times frustrates me a lot lol but this one upon hearing it the set up into it and everything. it is my favorite.
as for fally being a 'wanna be' i think people are way to harsh on this guy for real. as far as congolese music goes from what i've heard and learned he is not the first congolese artist to use a lot of different musical genres to influence him whether it is american music or music from other places. far from the first and will not be the last. a lot of mpongo love's early work was a straight rip of the motown sound no one calls her or empompo loway 'wanna be'. on the contrary we applaud their work. fally makes great music and this is his lane, pushing the envelop and mixing different music yet still in the end it is genuinely congolese. that's my two cents.
i agree with you on deplick and perhaps heritier as well (although i don't really see the big deal with this guy. he's just ok to me). fabregas is already well on his way to making his mark. i am rooting for him all the way.
<cite>@Sylvester said:</cite> I also followed an interview by Laura Pitshou Tendance,she says exactly like you have archos............that though it was meant to be a Cindy album,there's too much of Koffi and infact some songs are remixes of koffi's old stuff. Laura suggested that koffi needs to leave Cindy to buy songs and he can just aid her with arrangement etc,she should experiment just like Meje30 has and has proved that she's a true star and that Tshala Muana has what it takes to produce good rhumba despite being Queen of mutuashi etc
these are great points. i still am not sure what caused tshala muana and meje30 to split but she gave her a great start. tshala muana has a GREAT ear and the work she's done with meje30 is top notch in my book.
i have heard most of cindy's album and nothing stands out to me at all. she is being wasted as a talent imo.
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