I knew also some guys who tought that Kila Mbongo was the president of Extra Musica. The videoclip of Etat Major and it's album-cover played a major role on it. It's mostly the bandleader or leadsinger who appears alot in the main-generique and the alataku just for a few seconds.
About Kila Mbongo's departure. Trop c'est Trop is my favorite Extra Musica-album. But it took months for me to like that album. I wasn't used to hear Arafat as lead-atalaku and animating on his own, after hearing Kila Mbongo for 5 years as main-atalaku. Trop c'est Trop even made me hate Arafat's voice for a moment. But it's Africa N1 promotion of Trop c'est Trop that made like the generique and later on the album. I really wonder how that album would have been if Kila participated and also had the opportunity to put a song. All his songs in Extra Musica had some strong messages (Patience and Laissez Passer) despite that they weren't written by him.
I found it weird to not see Kila Mbongo appear in the Shalai-clips that they made in Brazzaville (only in the one who were shoot in Paris). I wonder if they did a 12 on him. This all made me think for years that Kila Mbongo left in Europe and joined them at Zenith, while he returned with to Brazzaville and toured with around Africa. Abilissi didn't appear in any Shalai except the generique. They didn't even shoot a clip for his song Tu Me Manques while was the biggest star among the singers and his song ending up by being one of the main tracks alongside Horizon 2000, Laissez Passer, Matongi and Sissi l'Imperatrice.
Trop Cest Trop is my favourite Extra Musica Zangul album as well.
But between Etat Major and Super Helico, which album do you rate highly?
I personally rate Super Helico higher than Etat Major as an album even though between the generiques Etat Major and Marc 9:23, etat Major was hugely successful across Africa and really made extra musica known, few people outside of the two Congos knew that Etat Major was a release from the group that remained after the split. Am not surprised that Kila said when they heard Marc 9:23 it made them shake and work Extra hard for the next album shalai to really kill the competition.
In Super Helico you had beautiful songs such Ange Panisse of Regis Touba, Amie Tendresse of Pinochet Thiery, Biwela Wela of Mellon Ngakana etc. Its just the sound that I think was poor as compared to Etat Major probably because of different technologies in the studios used.
Bro its not just you lol in 1999 i went to christmas or something like that maybe easter,in my mother's family in togo and extra came to perform at stadium president eyadema,and president sent guys on stage to take kila to him thinking he's the leader and gave him a nice enveloppe roga and espe were looking at each other like they are about to commit murder they switched the note of the dancers sebene about to start so that he sounds off tune when he kicks in with animation
bato ya sima really suffer in the Congolese groups. No wonder he had no choice but become a singer.
Ah Kila Mbongo! When Etat Major came out me and my cousin convinced each other that Kila was the leader of the group. Lol
I now get why singers were leaving extra musica from what Sonor explained that Extra Musica was created primarily by the instrumentist so any singer who becomes too popular is destabilised and end up leaving the group for example Kila, Doudou Copa, Oxygen etc.
Now Kila has complicated the creation story because from Roga and Durell Loemba, the key three people who were there before even the thought of Extra came was Espe Bass, Roga and Durell and later joined by Kila and Guy Guy Fall. Am sure we will get Durell Loemba and Guy Guy Fall soon on Ado so we hear their side of story.
Ado repeated that what brand of clothes is this and got asked by Kila whether that's necessary.
The challenge for them now is to keep the group together until that date.
Kkkkkkk that's very true,by that date it might be just 2 old members left, so Roga Roga wasn't entirely the main problem it seems
Lol. Roga Roga could have been the problem but in this world of music the new leaders start behaving like their old leader leading to the departure of those who feel agreaved and the chain continues.
Beautiful rumba. I was waiting for that nice solo guitar at the end but it didn't come. Still nice regardless. Levyson really is putting in his best musically and doing less talking nowadays.
Ado was ill prepared for this interview. I take it he is not a keen follower of Brazza music scene but a bit of research would have helped him. No mention of the departeure of Oxygen and others, no followup question on the real reason why Doudou Copa left, No mention of why Arafat left, no followup question on why Regis Touba had to be left at the airport with Sonor being asked to get in the plane with Regis Touba's flight ticket.
Lol. Ado should stop asking people what brand of clothes someone is wearing. He should just end at complementing. Sonor was very uncomfortable at the end. The other artist who didnt like being asked such was Canter Nyboma.
What was the REAL reason Doudou Copa left? Anyway not just Ado, but the public too: this interview has way less views then it desevres
According to Sonor Digital, he didn't go into details when asked about Doudou's departure preferring only to say "alongwaki parce que tango naye ekoki ya kosala career solo" while we know that he was pushed out because he was becoming too popular which Roga Roga didn't like.
Ado was ill prepared for this interview. I take it he is not a keen follower of Brazza music scene but a bit of research would have helped him. No mention of the departeure of Oxygen and others, no followup question on the real reason why Doudou Copa left, No mention of why Arafat left, no followup question on why Regis Touba had to be left at the airport with Sonor being asked to get in the plane with Regis Touba's flight ticket.
Lol. Ado should stop asking people what brand of clothes someone is wearing. He should just end at complementing. Sonor was very uncomfortable at the end. The other artist who didnt like being asked such was Canter Nyboma.
the problem deplick face is that many who try to work with him are not loyal to him if you are interested about it i will develop
Please do Maitre Archos.
This is like the second time he has filled Chez Ntemba right. Such a talent deserves more success than he currently has. I also feel in his next album he should work with Serge Kabangu of Studio NG because he understands better the genre and would bring out the best in Deplick.
Mbua is a great rumba song.Chai said in one interview that Mbua still feeds him till now. One of the reason I hold him in great esteem and One of the artists who should have a great solo career but la vie is not a straight line.
That cri "Brazzaville etonda ba portable sans unite" (Brazzaville is full of people with mobile phones but no airtime) reminds me of back in 1999 and 2000 when the first 2 businessmen in our small town who owned those big ericson and siemens phones would come to town centre and then they would be pretending to be talking to each other on the phones meanwhile the town didn't even have mobile network for them to make calls. Lol
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