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Congolese Music / Found the most difficult tune
« on: December 15, 2025, 03:23 »
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:




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Congolese Music / Is the new song of Nouvel Horizon already out?
« on: December 12, 2025, 21:37 »
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?

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Congolese Music / Johnny Bokelo was something else
« on: November 05, 2025, 05:15 »
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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Check this out, a chance that comes once in a lifetime!!! Hurry up!!!


The Highlife/Soukous lots slowly:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Elp_5_wU8UzgeO8VLSPUtk6WxSfR242P?usp=sharing

His Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AzRo35Rn7/

Youtube lots:










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I only know about these two, do you know any other?




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Congolese Music / Kila Mbongo - Toto tire nana - New Song
« on: October 21, 2025, 13:28 »

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Congolese Music / The amp of Franco
« on: October 20, 2025, 20:46 »
For anyone interested, I managed to track down one of the setups Franco used in the 60's:


The amp head is on the left, to the right of Franco:




This is that exact amp:
https://reverb.com/en-hu/item/67374103-echolette-showstar-s40-1964


The Grand Maitre used this exact same stuff. Plus his Fender Jaguar.

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Congolese Music / You don't need to overcomplicate the bass
« on: October 12, 2025, 20:02 »
The living example  8)


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I know that this is a beginning of 80's concert of Zaiko. I have seen black and white footages of various songs from this. Have just noticed this better quality clip has been uploaded. Do you know if this concert is available in full length and what the title of the show is?


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Congolese Music / 1975 'palm tree' video of OK JAZZ
« on: March 23, 2025, 00:11 »
Does anyone know from where this video has been circulating on Youtube:



Was it an official release on VHS/DVD or someone had it recorded from TV?

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Congolese Music / Franco on bike
« on: March 19, 2025, 17:32 »
The Grand Maitre, with no fancy car but only a simple bike. Looks so surprising compared to the present:






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Congolese Music / Bozi Boziana with Dodoli at upcoming concert
« on: February 27, 2025, 17:05 »

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