Congo Vibes
Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: Mfumu Vata on February 27, 2026, 00:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ElZ_TiVFY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HflHwida0sc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMGzVrRZ5pE
The album was recorded when Lidjo Kwempa managed to return to Europe after being stuck in Zaire for almost three years following his deportation. Once back in Europe, he met up with his friends Stino Mubi, Gloria Thukadio, Kito Dembela, Alex Azulino, and Kaps Kapangala, who had just left Viva la Musica and together they formed their own band, being fed up for the way Papa Wemba was prefering Nouvelle Ecriture above them.
They first recorded Lidjo Kwempa's album Cour des Grands, which also became the name of their band. However, shortly afterwards, Kito Dembela was deported. Not long after that, they were contacted by Viva’s staff and asked to rejoin Viva la Musica. They then recorded Timololo's album Mwana Matebu and performed together at the Zénith de Paris.However, I wonder how Lidjo Kwempa managed to shoot the music videos in Kinshasa. Did he immediately receive his papers and were the videos recorded in the same year or did he have to wait two years before being able to do so? It's a shame the album being very rare
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I will upload the full VHS soon
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https://youtu.be/1ycHs2cu0Dw?is=L-8vN1uaJpJhqjpa
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https://youtu.be/1ycHs2cu0Dw?is=L-8vN1uaJpJhqjpa
I like the song Papa Pangu. Artists that are part from the Mbala-ethnicity always made great songs in Kimbala. I wonder why donors from the Kwilu-province, never came with the initiave to reunite King Kester Emeneya, Werrason, Reddy Amisi, Lidjo Kwempa and Marie Paul, to let each of them sing a song in Kimbala along with some duets. It would have been great. Their folklore is really melodious.
Too bad that the 1990s were prime of Congolese people bleaching their skin. Lidjo needed already to stop using tchoko in this era.
What made Kaps Kapangala made such big progress as a drummer ? When you compare his way of drumming in Magie and Pas de Faux Pas it's totally different from how he did in Modogo Gianfranco's Integration (2000) and Lidjo Kwempa's Cour des Grands. Is Kaps still active as drummer and where's he nowadays, because I haven't heard about him since Les Marquis