Congo Vibes
Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: Mfumu Vata on November 27, 2020, 18:48
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https://youtu.be/jrSOH3mpZXE
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I'm feeling that Pompom Miyake and Tosha Fulakanda will reply very hard the coming days against him. Ado Yuhe must take Ramazani when he's back in Europe.
It is very rare to see keymembers being credited as a songwriter on a bandleader's solo album. But big parts of the song Fula Ngenge, came from other songs. The intro was a part of Matou Samuel's song and the part "Se yo yo, Se yo yo" came from Reddy's song Petite Gina replacing the name Gina by Fula Ngenge.
Bandleaders are really evil. You received a $100.000 contract for a concert and promise to give $50.000 for the musicians, but ending by giving them peanuts. The problem of Papa Wemba with his main musicians Bendoson, Ramazani & Pompom Miyake started earlier, because a few months after the release of Fula Ngenge when Bendoson returned from Quartier Latin, they started a African tour going to Gambia, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo & Cameroun. But Papa Wemba didn't pay them, claiming that the tour promoter Gerard Akueson went away with the money, but the musicians not believing him because in Paris Gerard Akueson used to live a few streets from his house.
When Bendoson talked about the way he was surprised to see journalists like Mbuyi Bwebwe at Koffi's house, while he was still doubting and wanting to think about the situari, made me think about the video when he joined with him looking confused and unprepared when they started ask him question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wb8rW6CUeU
from 1:06 min
Koffi Olomide just recruited Bendoson to prove Papa Wemba and wanting to use him from the beef he had with Wemba. But Bendson talking about that story and saying that it took place after creating his band with Ramazani was wrong, maybe he forgot since that it's already 20 years ago that it took place. Because a few months after recreating Nouvelle Ecriture de l'an 2000, Pompom Miyake because of money problems and Bob Masua not wanting to release their album anymore after being influenced by Wemba's staff in Paris who was putting pressure and mad at Bendoson for attacking Wemba in mutliple videos and trying to get back in Nouvelle Ecriture (Papa Wemba even talking about it with Alimia Mongala after having performed at Olympia), but Wemba's staff didn't want him back because of his relation with one of those Fioti Fioti's and few weeks after that Ramazani & Christian na Nzenze would abandon Bendoson and join Quartier Latin (Pompom Miyake also being contacted but refusing Koffi's offer). Back in the days you had a video called Boulevard des Stars and journalists Thierry Pinzi and another one I think Popol Mukelenge and Bendo being mad at Pompom, Christian and Rama saying that he deleted their 5 songs from the album, making from it his solo of album of 10 songs. In the same interview Thierry Pinzi mocked Bendoson for becoming broke and the way Jean Apocalyps dissed him at Zenith de Paris with that goalkeeper citiation reffering to Bendo's nickname number one when doing his vocal in the song Maria and Thierry Pinzi going far by mocking about Bendo's origin Tshangu/Masina, saying if I remember well that musicians from that area never go far because of the way they come from Masinaand donor/sapeur Thythy le Vallois (he was also present, because he had to talk about the way Bendo participated in his album) being mad and attacking Thierry Pinzi in the same interview. Not long after that Bendoson would join Jolino along with Babia Ndonga before rejoining Nouvelle Ecriture in 2002, despite that many members were against.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vgijssOBVg
Here Bendoson & Babia talking about their collaboration with Jolino (man Babia lost alot weight in that era)
Bendoson like he said joined Quartier Latin after being contacted by Do Akongo. But it was not because of the way Nouvelle Ecriture de l'An 2000 disbanded. It was because of the way he was suspended by Wemba's staff after a huge conflict about the payments they were getting and the jealousy of being Wemba's favorite musician, which is why he's wasn't there the few concerts they had in Kinshasa (including the one at RTNC 2, which isn't on youtube anymore) after the release of Fula Ngenge without Wemba presence who had abig event with Viva La Musica "Cour des Grand", Molokai and Le Quatro at Forest National. Bogus would leave the band for the same reasons being fed up for the way Wemba's staff used to insult them and give them a hard time. Bendoson would rejoin Nouvelle Ecriture a few weeks after it after being contacted by Wemba's wife Amazone like he said in this interview.
All in all, its sad how Nouvelle Ecriture de l'An 2000 ended. They had a huge succes in the beginning. I used to have the VHS of their first concert at Cinemax at home. Alot of people used to say that it was Wemba's end and that he would not fill his second Zenith. I found it strange the way Bendoson said that he knew that it band was killed, when he was informed that Papa Wemba came to the Bobongo Studios where they were recording their new album to get attack Ramazani and go away with his guitar. How can robbery of a guitar by an ex'boss kill a band, it must be something spiritual since that Wemba is a traditional chief.
It's a shame that Ado Yuhe didn't ask about his second time in Nouvelle Ecriture (2002-2005), the song Bokuabuani he made with Alpatshino after the conflict they had, the though time they had in Kinshasa when Papa Wemba was in prison and how he got fired by Papa Wemba in 2005 after openly critizing Maisha Parc, saying that it was fake. How he recorded his solo album Face B with Thierry Mogratana, Fally Ipupa, Heritier Wantanabe and Gessac before settling in South Africa in 2009 after that his album failed (the real reason was because the police was looking him after that his wife died from domestic violence).
https://www.fansofcongo.com/produit/face-b-vive-les-artistes/
I never understand why those company always delete all videos. Face B was a good album, I liked Bendo's feat with Fally Ipupa.