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I am posting this because I wanted to learn this song (Bana Sec-Ado) from keyboard players from Congo and other related countries, but strangely every of them misinterpreted the famous keyboard theme. So in the end I had to figure it out myself. Fortunately, with AI around, I could extract the keyboard from this song. Having the keyboard only, one can load it into a spectral editor (like Spectralayers Pro) and the secret will reveal.

I decided to share these here if anyone would be interested and willing to learn it. Fortunately a quite clear recording survived on tapes, so it was an easy job for the AI. Here is the (1) version without the keyboard and (2) with the keyboard only. They are in sync, so if you load them in the spectral editor as layers, you can switch either on or off and analyze the song.

1. https://mega.nz/file/kncgnQ4K#f6-hIQQGIAGYha-2bvP_owAVX8Gd-8UqcPji1hSvT8o
2. https://mega.nz/file/cv0y1JrD#kvlywzxQyl0cNXr01zszqjAsX4HZg0E2TnDO1rLXp5o

Here is a screenshot of the famous theme from the spectral editor, you can observe key by key what the musician was playing (the green patches):






And here is the song itself:



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There is a great good quality tool online that lets you separate music files to instruments. I tried other ones before, they did a bad job, this one is very good however. Of course, quality comes with subscription only, you need to pay for it. By accident, I found a hack to be able to use it free. Anyone interested? If yes, let me know and I put a description here.

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How To Play It / How to play Amnistie Shalai by Extra Musica
« on: November 24, 2023, 22:51 »

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General / Donate for poor kids in Congo
« on: November 10, 2023, 00:26 »
There is a charity group that is running a campaign on Gofundme for helping poor kids in Congo. I know the girl who is the boss personally, this is a legit thing not a fake fundraiser. If you feel like support their campaign, even with just a few dollars:

gofund.me/a914f375





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I remember there was a discussion here or somewhere else about where sebene came from. Apart from who says what, today I found some interesting addition to this topic, wondered if you noticed it already.

By accident Google showed up an LP for me in the search results today, one that I never heard of yet: the title is Kasongo! and it is a record from 1957 from East Congo. I was surprised to see on the back, that next to the songs the genres are also listed, and some songs were marked as: Sebene. I thought WOW I need to listen, firstly because rural recordings are not common from those days, secondly because it even has sebene music, and I was surprised it was already an acknowledged genre at that early age of Congolese music. And very interestingly, the songs sounded as I expected from a sebene or something similar:






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Congolese Music / Nouvel Horizon recorded new concert for Youtube
« on: September 05, 2023, 20:15 »

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Congolese Music / New song by Renato Mondele and Mboka Liya
« on: September 02, 2023, 20:44 »
This one is the song of Renato, Mboka Liya playing the lead. He has just sent it to me yesterday. There are some nice tunes in it, check this out.


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Congolese Music / Lingala speakers please help with this song
« on: August 27, 2023, 12:21 »
Why is this song called: Fleur de lys? What is this about briefly?


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CD Shops / Panafricanallstars.com
« on: August 19, 2023, 14:25 »
If you cannot find a Congolese title anywhere, this shop is still online, try to search for it here:

https://panafricanallstars.com/

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Congolese Music / Zaiko Dansez Othulé back on Youtube
« on: August 19, 2023, 13:41 »
This record was available on Spotify, but I have noticed they have withdrawn it. It is back on Youtube now on playlist:


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Congolese Music / New outage
« on: August 18, 2023, 21:30 »
Sorry guys for the new interruption. I am having difficulty finding a proper server recently for our forum. Every time I subscribe somewhere, it reveals along the way there is a glitch with the subscription and I need to suspend. The forum is not in danger, the issue is only about where the forum can be run. Hopefully this recent one will do, but I cannot guarantee anything. If anything happens, this is the reason you need to think about when you see the forum is temporarily closed. I'll try to bring it back as soon as possible.

If you find any errors and issues, please report it!

Sorry again, thanks for your patience!

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Congolese Music / Welcome back!
« on: July 25, 2023, 02:25 »
The forum is up and running again! Thanks for being patient during the maintenance!

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Congolese Music / Planned downtime second week of July
« on: June 21, 2023, 00:32 »
Hello to everyone!

Just letting you know that there will be some outage during the second/third week of July for a few days. When you check if the forum is back, please type the full address into your browsers exactly like this: http://congovibes.com  (not https!). If you miss to add "http" before the name, the forum may display an error message. OR type Congovibes into Google search, and click the link of the forum from there.

Cheers!


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