Congo Vibes
Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: Mfumu Vata on February 22, 2026, 13:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFgWhC-4o2o
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This is my first time listening to this album and I really enjoyed it! It’s unfortunate it never took off like his first album before he joined QL. 2009 must’ve been a tough climate to release album. I can easily say that this is one of the best albums that came out that year in the genre. But quality doesn’t always equal success.
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I took the time to listen to the album, and I can conclude that Conclusho Renverso is a very good album. It is among the best albums recorded by a Quartier Latin alumnus. It’s really sad that the album flopped. Conclusho Renverso could easily have competed with the albums that were in the top charts in 2009. I only listened to the album once back in 2010, after downloading it through BearShare and never listened to it again. It was as if I was blinded, limiting myself to Koffi Olomidé, Ferré Gola, and others
All the songs including the générique are good. However, the album lacks a truly catchy song like “Liputa” or “Maboko Pamba,” and a strong cri like, for example, “Linda” or “Kisanola.” In addition, the mabanga sometimes messed the songs up. There were different moments that I couldn’t hear the lyrics clearly because they clashed with the shout-outs.
A part of arrangement from first song, “Pardon,” is somewhat similar to 6ème Chantier by Koffi Olomidé, when listening how the bass plays in the first part of the song. You would expect Montana to go back to his roots and embrace the Big Stars style, but instead he went fo a Tchatcho album. Listening to the album reminded me that some former Quartier Latin singers followed him. Scottie Pippen, the tall guy who looked a bit like Bapinces, used the same vocal he had done in “Bomengo” by Koffi Olomidé. The same goes for the guy who performed a vocal part right after him (I don’t know his name). I wonder what happened to both of them. Are they still making music or did they retire?
Seeing that Somina produced the album makes me believe that the albums that succeeded on his label were successful mainly because of the artists’ aura and their own efforts. How is it possible that Montana’s album had zero promotion? Or was something happening behind the scenes? I remember that Somina was once threatened by people from WMM to stop the promotion of Wenge El Paris’s Eboulement. Was Somina threatened by Montana's former boss ?
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Back in the day, when I saw that Montana Kamenga had invited Fally Ipupa, General Defao and Shella Mputu to collaborate on his album, on those DVD compilations about the G5-Revolution. I felt hopeful about the future of our music. I truly believed that future Congolese albums would be filled with collaborations between bandleaders and that the hostility between them would gradually decrease
Bendoson, for example, invited Fally Ipupa, Ferré Gola and Héritier Watanabe to feature on his album Face B. Celeo brought Fally Ipupa, Flamme Kapaya, Jean Goubald, Kabose Bulembi and Mirage Supersonic on his debut album Nzoto na Nzoto
But now, almost 20 years later, it is sad to realize that this has rarely been the case from 2009. The rhate between artists sometimes is even worse than during the 1998–2004 period. It will not surprise me if a bandleader at some point get killed
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I took the time to listen to the album, and I can conclude that Conclusho Renverso is a very good album. It is among the best albums recorded by a Quartier Latin alumnus. It’s really sad that the album flopped. Conclusho Renverso could easily have competed with the albums that were in the top charts in 2009. I only listened to the album once back in 2010, after downloading it through BearShare and never listened to it again. It was as if I was blinded, limiting myself to Koffi Olomidé, Ferré Gola, and others
All the songs including the générique are good. However, the album lacks a truly catchy song like “Liputa” or “Maboko Pamba,” and a strong cri like, for example, “Linda” or “Kisanola.” In addition, the mabanga sometimes messed the songs up. There were different moments that I couldn’t hear the lyrics clearly because they clashed with the shout-outs.
A part of arrangement from first song, “Pardon,” is somewhat similar to 6ème Chantier by Koffi Olomidé, when listening how the bass plays in the first part of the song. You would expect Montana to go back to his roots and embrace the Big Stars style, but instead he went fo a Tchatcho album. Listening to the album reminded me that some former Quartier Latin singers followed him. Scottie Pippen, the tall guy who looked a bit like Bapinces, used the same vocal he had done in “Bomengo” by Koffi Olomidé. The same goes for the guy who performed a vocal part right after him (I don’t know his name). I wonder what happened to both of them. Are they still making music or did they retire?
Seeing that Somina produced the album makes me believe that the albums that succeeded on his label were successful mainly because of the artists’ aura and their own efforts. How is it possible that Montana’s album had zero promotion? Or was something happening behind the scenes? I remember that Somina was once threatened by people from WMM to stop the promotion of Wenge El Paris’s Eboulement. Was Somina threatened by Montana's former boss ?
The guy that sang after Scotty Pippen is DVD Musica who was also a member of Quartier Latin Integral, he still does music in Congo but he’s one of them musicians that keeps returning to Quartier Latin over the years, he left Montana to return to QL during the abracadabra era then he left again and he returned and participated in 13eme apôtre and he was in the video of Selfie next to Bouro Mpela then he left again. Scottie Pippen sometimes does music because in his profile on Discogs you can see pictures of him in the studio.
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On discogs, it lists Kerozene as the animator. Is that wrong? I didn't hear him anywhere on the album
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scottie is in angola looking for his way to europe