Archos and mvulusi can you tell us about the original plan of the album of anti terro with Alain mpela and les ppu we obviously know the final product but I'd like to know how many songs was it originally gonna have and would the first team of kibens and co participated and would the likes of Richard mukena and so on would have been able to add in their songs?

the original plan was first 12 songs 5 of alain mpela,4 of jb one rumba of les ppu one generique of genta and kilimandjaro,another generique  and their remix of promesse bouboule
the other members did not have songs at the very very beginning then it got extended to 16 with kibens who offered his song later to genta,seguin who lost his song with his fights,ficarre who was rewarded for his loyalty and boguys for his contribution as a songwriter
the then first team aka armee rouge had minor participation like two vocals each,and it was creating frustrations which in the end made the situation a bit tense and jb was openly confronted at group reunion by older ones because  most of the advantage then went to jb alain and les ppu plus the 3 4 who got a chance so jb decided to reduce alain's songs to acommodate some guys then with the stories of alain getting support from the rivals it went to alain being limited to two songs,which pissed him off as he already had a bit of grudge against jb for ngulu affairs,some ngulu who could not travel with the group due to the ban and he had to handle most of the pressure as those people could not reach jb directly

Man that sounded like a phenomenal project. Man JB is making us wait. Any info on the next albums sebene wise? Will we get the powerful Generiques BCBG used to produce? Is Tutu Calludgi participating? I saw somewhere he is getting back into music with BCBG crew.

tutu is doing his album  with bcbg,there is 4 generiques 3 sebene songs out of 22 if i recall well

It's still projected to come out in the winter?

My cousin told me that the idea to record Anti-Terro came just after Bercy, but I don't know if it's true.

According to him it all started because of Mpela's family who made an interview with Zacharie Bababaswe which created alot of problems. They weren't happy about the way he wasn't able to pay the rent and that Alain Mpela had enough songs to his repertoire while he had already spent 15 years in Wenge. Also that Alain Mpela was supossed to put 4 songs in the album Internet, since that he was Chef d'orchestre, but JB changing his mind on the last minute and reducing it to 1 song with himself putting 6 songs in group-album. Shortly after that a rumor came in Paris and Brussels about Alain Mpela started his own band called BCBG Musica with some PPU's, members of BCBG and Seguin, but it was quickly denied by Alain Mpela and people claiming that Koffi came with that rumor to create more tensions in BCBG. JB was upset about Alain Mpela's family talking about that and Alain started trying to calm everything down and proposed JB to record an album with the PPU with him getting 6 songs and JB then accepting it a, promising him to record it when they will return in Europe. Because the original plan was to record JB's next solo album which he was doubting between the album-titles Chemin de Fer and 11eme Commandement with JB chosing for 11eme Commandement. With when they returned in 2002,  a war starting between PPU and Armee Rouge. But them still recording with Alain Mpela putting his 6 songs (inclu. promesse bouboule remix/bercy version), JB Mpiana putting 1 or 2 songs with those generics and Rigo Makengo then being the excecutive producur. But things changed when they returned to kinshasa and other members also putting their songs with those of Mpela being recuded to 4 and rumors about JPS wanting to sign JB Mpiana and promosing him to win a kora-award if he signs with him, but him then being arrested shortly after that. With them continuing recording Anti-Terro in those bad conditions in Kinshasa. Later on Mpela's songs were recuded to 2 just before he left with him also not more getting those advantages he was getting as Chef d'Orchestre and JB more trusting JDL, Bogus, Seguin and co. Rumors then being spread about JB Mpiana wanting to fire/give Alain a suspesion after getting proofs of Alain Mpela talking with Koffi Olomide with Alain Mpela then suddenly leaving the band before JB deciding about that.

Lol alain's wild children life did him baaaad service throughout his career,the guy had too much child support while still living like a minister
gisele mpela and co  got unhappy because jb was against afande doing a solo album back since zenith,because it would have lead to titina also wanting then aimelia and co and it could become a mess while if he accepted the mpela's would have made good money with mabanga each of them taking their percentage on those the customers they added to alain,lol 15 years then,but 3 as very important member in reality because in wenge 4X4  if people had to put songs outside the admins it was lottery and how you seduce the chiefs,alain for example got promesse bouboule thanks to the many songs he brought,and his involvement in a loooooot of jb and werra vocals
indeed they reported to jb that koffi had given instruments to alain to leave since he does not want to join,which was true but that specific call which jb himself was involved into was supposedly about bouro's situation

Archos do you know how many songs are in balle de match?

22 to 24 it will depend, but minimum 22

I really hope the songs are worth the wait.