Lesasa disappeared from my Facebook newsfeed recently, I wondered what's up with the leader of one of the leading non-Congolese Congolese bands?
Have just stumbled upon this live performance of them from last year. It really surprised me. You can hear some really great tunes in it. This one reminds me to vocals from old songs by Bansomi Lay Lay:
I know some tunes from this album were included on normal Zaiko albums and concerts, too, but what about this one? Was it ever played live or only the studio version exist?
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You may know I learn to play Congolese tunes sometimes. I met several difficult tunes, Dodoli's tunes are very hard to play. But nothing I ever met compares to this one. This tune is totally crazy, extremely hard to play. The guitarist was doubling every note in the singing part, have never heard such a solution. Sounds good though, but almost impossible to play. I have already asked Congolese guitarists in the past to show me how to play this tune, but none of them played it correctly. They skipped some doublings.
The interesting is that it is not a very well know person, either, who played it:
Sonor posted about it a few weeks ago, they were captured playing the new song live, what happened to that? Is it already out or still under production?
Have just stumbled upon this video. It makes me feel this guy represented a third direction besides the style of African Fiesta and OK Jazz. His playing style is quite unique. I didn't realize so far that he played solo. The choruses are similar to OK jazz, but the solo is a different approach.
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