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Congolese Music / FALLY IN LUSAKA, ZAMBIA
« on: May 30, 2018, 11:56 »
His in for two concerts in two different cities. The comments by the fans though. These are holiday apartments.


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Congolese Music / MANIX IS LOADED
« on: May 27, 2018, 11:58 »
Ferre had to ask him to also give some to his back up singer.

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Here at 4:15 of inspiration.  ;D


Why didn't Tata feature in the original clip of inspiration. Nice track from Lacoste and that voice from Tata is as funny as it is nice at the same time.  ;D ;D #Throwback.


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That partition starting at 52 minutes from the Djodjo Ngonda song  eza mystic. Nostalgic.


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Came across this interview from last year by Noly Tambu.

Starting at 25 minutes he is asked what happened between their relationship seeing that the Acha Movoto name was very popular around Wenge Musica and later BCBG. He says he doesnt really know what he did wrong for their relationship to go sour but that he is prepared to ask for forgiveness if he is told what he did to Leki naye Mukulu wa Bankulu.

He also says JB even if he is a good person, he has a weakness (lokola Mobutu) of listening a lot to what those around him tell him even if not well intentioned and he (JB) doesn't take the initiative to verify the stories they feed him. Also reveals that at some point BCBG was performing in Paris and when he tried to attend the concert he was stopped by the guys at the gate who were clearly under instructions not to allow him in. Because he could clearly see that as he was at the entrance to the concert the guy at the entrance received a call even though he couldn't tell who was calling him. Further says Koffi Olomide still has his old donors around him who no longer give him any monies but they they still have a good relationship. He wonders what went wrong because he is one of the guys who has the most mabanga with JB. He also says even Papa Wemba before he passed on at some point asked him which group he prefers between Viva La Musica and BCBG and he told Mzee that he prefers BCBG and that everyone knows the affection he has for BCBG. He seems troubled that at some point in the interview he asks the cameraman to turn it away to wipe some tears.

Note: Am not sure of the meaning of some french expressions so i might have missed the context.




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Congolese Music / THUMBS UP HERITIER WATANABE
« on: April 23, 2018, 11:25 »
He is asked about his group La Team Wata and he says he and his group are working on starting to pay his musicians through bank accounts. He says he could claim that at Maison Mere he was not being paid and it would be difficult to dispute. So he will encourage everyone of his musicians to open bank accounts. He says this is to avoid a situation were when a musician leaves the group then they start claiming that they were not being paid and as a group it would be difficult to prove otherwise since there would be no payment records. Further says each musician once they have a bank account they can then go to the embassy with their own documents and bank records whereupon they can be granted the visa for poto or Europe.


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Congratulations Ferre Gola "Moto ya yambo" on this achievement. Now on to that next group album.





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Maitre Archos heard General Defao say "BOKEBA JDT MULOPWE AZA KOYA" When do we expect this project from Papa Popy? Sounds like it will be fire. Is it the same one which he has been holding onto for some time now?


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FOUND THIS ARTICLE FROM 2013. AN INTERESTING READ.

Augustin Kayembe “CHEZ NTEMBA” : The king of the African night club scene.

Gregory Mthembu- Salter 01 Nov 2013 00:00
 
Augustin Kayembe owns 40 clubs that are scattered all over the continent. (Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)

Augustin Kayembe not only knows where are the best places to party around Africa - but he owns them too.
He is The Man. Augustin Kayembe, a dapper 55-year-old Katangan, was born in Zambia, has Congolese parents and lives in Johannesburg.
Kayembe has established himself in the course of a career spanning three decades as one of the continent's top music promoters and the undisputed champion of African nightlife.
He started out selling cooldrinks and beers from a cooler box on the streets of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of Congo's dusty mining capital, then progressed to opening his own bar and launched the first Chez Ntemba nightclub in the same city in 1987. Today, Kayembe runs an empire of more than 40 Chez Ntemba ("our corner") clubs across Africa - a mind-boggling feat.
In most Chez Ntembas the bedrock sound is African, featuring ¬generous doses of the Democratic Republic of Congo's legendary, sensual rumba music. Kayembe's DJs are also all fluent in South African house, Angolan kizomba and American hip-hop and R&B.
At the two Chez Ntembas in Windhoek, Kayembe says, punters have no truck with rumba and insist on listening solely to house, kizomba and American beats.
Ever the pragmatist, Kayembe has studied local trends and accommodated them. But rumba itself has changed, he says.
"Rumba has gone down, it is too slow. It is not like the ndombolo and soukous sounds of the past. This slow music is for Congolese people only. People at clubs love fast music. Now the musicians who are slow are killing themselves. Congolese musicians are getting replaced by Nigerians and Ivorians, who play faster beats."
Hectic sounds
Like Jamaicans, who shifted from the hectic sounds of ska to the laid-back style of rocksteady in the mid-1960s, Congolese seem fatigued by the frenetic exertions required by up-tempo ndombolo and have settled into a gentler groove, giving plenty of room to nifty, Latin-inspired footwork, which is of less appeal, it seems, to the non-Congolese crowd.
A feature of all Chez Ntemba clubs is the immaculate sound systems. There is no distortion, a rarity in much of Africa's nightlife. Another welcome aspect is the excellent bar service.
"My father taught me that, if they are run correctly, clubs should always succeed, because people will always like to dance to good music and to drink," says Idris Kayembe, one of Kayembe's sons, who runs the Cape Town outpost of the empire.
In 1991 the Democratic Republic of Congo, then Zaire, suffered widespread rioting and looting by soldiers, known as les pillages.
Kayembe remembers: "They took everything and I decided to leave. I went to Zambia, where I was born. In 1992 I opened a Chez Ntemba in Lusaka, in Kamwala. That was popular, so I opened another, at Mike's Car Wash."
Zambians, it turned out, could not get enough of Kayembe's rumba-drenched club formula, and Chez Ntembas quickly mushroomed around the country.
"In the Zambian townships at that time they were playing Congolese music, but in town it was always American. And at that time Americans started singing bad things with bad language. People like Tupac. But Congolese music was respectful. It sang about love. And we had the newest Congolese music because of my connections."
Kayembe brought Congolese artists to play at his Zambian clubs, cementing close friendships with the country's musical fraternity that have endured.
He is particularly close to Koffi Olomidé, a volatile musical genius, whose honey-voiced, Latin-infused rhythms reign - for now - as the champion sound in the music's heartland, Kinshasa.
Listen closely to the songs and you will hear that Olomide, and other top notch Congolese singers, like Fally Ipupa and Ferre Gola, continually reference Kayembe and Chez Ntemba. Most people pay huge sums for the privilege of being referenced in songs by musicians like these, a tradition called libanga (literally, throwing stones) in Lingala, but, for Kayembe, it is different.
"I promote them and they love me, so it is normal that they sing about me. They don't tell me beforehand, but afterwards, when I hear the songs, I call them to say thank you. I did buy equipment for Ferre Gola once, though, after he'd mentioned me four times in songs. It cost R500 000."
Soon after 1994, sensing the possibility of a fresh opportunity in South Africa, Kayembe came to Johannesburg to explore and, in 1996, he opened a club in Jeppe Street. Chez Ntembas soon followed in Hillbrow and Bruma.
Kayembe moved his family to South Africa, but there were problems, mostly involving the police, who repeatedly raided Chez Ntemba clubs on weekends, carting the clientele down to the nearest police station, demanding residence papers, accusing them of being illegal immigrants and, apparently, soliciting bribes to let them go.
Happily, it seems, Kayembe and the Johannesburg law enforcers have since become friends, and the police no longer raid his clubs. Kayembe has closed the Jeppe Street and Bruma clubs, but the one in Hillbrow is still going strong.
He has also opened one in Melrose Arch, where there are two dance floors. He recently opened a hotel in Melrose Arch as well. At his club in Cape Town, which is just off Long Street, there are three dance floors - one playing African sounds, another house and the third R&B.
There are Chez Ntembas in Malawi, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Angola and Congo-Brazzaville. Kayembe tours his empire regularly, but most of the time has to trust his managers to keep things going. But there has been some trouble.
"In Maputo we had to close because another club owner sent people to shoot me."
Botswana also presented problems: "The new president there doesn't like alcohol because his father liked it too much. So we had problems with the club in Gaborone and closed it."
The two big money spinners are in Kinshasa and Brazzaville. "In Brazzaville they are like the French. They do not drink beer and whisky. They drink champagne. Lots of champagne. And Kinshasa is a well-established club. People support that club without fail."
The Chez Ntemba on the Rond Point Forescom, in Kinshasa's upmarket Gombe district, is always packed at weekends with a well-dressed party crowd with the stamina and the dance moves to keep going until dawn.
Kayembe has tried Europe, but found it tricky: "There, they want taxes and licence fees before you have had the chance to make any money! And in France the Congolese like fighting too much. They come to fight in your place, and after three fights the police can close you down."
Some club fights are political. In Europe and South Africa les combatants, militant expatriate supporters of Congolese opposition politician Étienne Tshisekedi, have taken to attacking not just members of the government of president Joseph Kabila, but anyone else they judge guilty by association. These include Congolese musicians who have sung for the president and Kayembe, in whose club the ruling elite likes to rumba the Kinshasa night away. Kayembe and his sons have been attacked by les combatants in South Africa in the past, and generally move around with beefy bodyguards.
Kayembe says the years of running nightclubs have messed with his sleep and he is tired: "I just can't sleep before 2am. My brain has changed after all these years of sleeping late. I cannot do this forever."
Kayembe hopes that running his newly opened hotel in Melrose Arch will be more relaxing and that eventually he can hand over his nightclub empire entirely to the managers. As much as he likes Johannesburg, he wants to return to Kinshasa and open another hotel there.
He is under less pressure these days to earn for his large family - he has at least 15 children. But he has no plans to retire: "I am a slave to work. People wonder what is my fétiche. But while they look for magic I know there is no magic. I am working, I am investing. That is the fétiche."
"In Maputo we had to close because another club owner, a Greek, sent people to shoot me"


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Congolese Music / THESE GUYS TAKE RESPECT TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL
« on: February 09, 2018, 07:24 »
At minute 03:30 Hugo Synthetique takes off his glasses when mentioning the name of Big Boss Le Roi De La Foret. I thought you are only obliged to take off your cap as a sign of respect.
 

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Congolese Music / NEW BCBG DANCE IN REHEARSAL
« on: February 05, 2018, 10:37 »
Fusee is arguably currently one of the top animators but still in the shadows.



Why though is it that BCBG rehearsals are not public?

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Congolese Music / MIEL DE SON ALBUM COMING SOON?
« on: January 26, 2018, 00:17 »
This sounds promising.

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Congolese Music / HOW TRUE IS IT...
« on: January 09, 2018, 11:33 »
I have read somewhere am just not sure what site that was and i think even Werrason himself was asked about it i think on one of his tours to Kenya that he has performed in front of a "200'000" strong audience in Kikwit and he agreed. Now my question is it true that he has performed in front of such a big crowd or it was just to create buzz of himself being a phenomen as he would call himself?
 

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Congolese Music / EBOA LOTIN'S FIRST CONCERT AS A SOLO ARTIST
« on: January 08, 2018, 12:05 »

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