Author Topic: SONOR DIGITAL TAKES A QUICKFIRE INTERVIEW IN FRANCE  (Read 1824 times)

archos on: January 17, 2022, 12:29

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-whats your real name? cardel sylvere ndinga
-where the nickname sonor comes from? from my melodies as a guitarist
-what does it change to be a number 2 in extra zangul then a number 1 in nouvel horizon?a lot,its a lot more responsabilities
-being a leader do you think you act fair or unfair?sometimes you are nice and sometimes you have to make tough decisions towards people
-how did you handle the loss of kassoul? until today i struggle to really realise he's gone and i will mourn him forever,it is really painful
-what do you know about his death? it is a sudden death everything happened so quick that its hard to have accurate analysis of it
-have you been supported by fellow artists? yes a lot
-was it an occasion to talk again with roga roga? no he was not there
- did he at least call you or any support? no
-how is the group coping with the loss?of course its a big blow which is why we put everything on hold to mourn our brother but we have after mourning to continue working because life is like that,we will restart things after the mourning 40 days are over
-levyson,obama two guys gone in 3 years is there a problem of gestion?i dont think so i believe its more of a matter of personal ambition and i wish them good luck in their solo careers
-how is vision doing on social media? well,but as you know we lost kassoul so we have in respect to his memory to stop everything for a while but so far we were getting good feedback its a good album and i suggest to people to give it a listen
-on a scale of 1 to 3 where would you rank nouvel horizon? i am not in the best position to judge where we are but its up to fans to judge,we try our best
-do you listen to other congolese artists? i listen to any type of music i can come across to
-i say congolese music? yes i listen to my big brothers kevin mbouande,quentin moyascko  guyguy fall and many more
-do you listen to bokoko? yes sometimes
-you said in an interview few times after its release,i can do thousands of songs like bokoko do you still confirm?
-yes i was talking as an arranger,and i was strictly talking about the music not anything else
- and the same success?art and success are two different things,nobody can totally understand how success comes but as for the music you can feel it and play it
-who is for you the biggest soloist of the last 20 years? you know  i dont like to separate soloist and other guitarists i like many guitarists regardless of success or album i like those who do their job well
-if a name can come to your mind right now? its difficult to pick i like many of them(you can feel they expected roga as answer lol)
-what do you prefer between dancing and singing? dancing
-between concert and studio? studio
-etat major or la main noire? etat major
-do you know the principle of this interview? no
-you gotta give a proverb and its explanation? one often needs smaller than oneself,you can have everything but you still need people around who may not be as rich as you but who will contribute highly to your life
-thanks for having accepted to participate,       thank you thank you for the nice concept
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BienMat23 #1 on: January 17, 2022, 17:23

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I like the concept that’s interesting but the way they pushed for roga roga lool annoying I like these to know a bit more about the artists And their opinions

Mfumu Vata #2 on: January 17, 2022, 20:52

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It would be better if they made him chose between Etat Major and Shalai or Etat Major vs Trop c'est Trop.

I think that if they still maintain their succes their 5 coming years, people will stop ask them about Roga Roga. Or they have just to do like Fally who from 2007 at some started to prepare interviews with journalists and remove direct questions about Koffi until like 2011/12 when he came on a dimension that it was unnecessary to ask about Koffi, because of Fally already proved alot like winning trophies, having performing at a packed Olympia and Zenith and having multiple featurings. In that era only Marius asked back in 2008 a question about Koffi, when asking what Fally thinks about the songs Salopette and Diabolos 119.

archos #3 on: January 18, 2022, 00:03

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another interview he says he came to france for private reasons(papers surely) but also is using that opportunity to plan on their tour in europe in june with label and producers,and that he did not come alone because he is "the leader" but because he had reasons to come,and that ramatoulaye will come with him next month with him to continue planning after ulrich tells him  that he might be egoistic because when roga comes to france he comes with espe bass,he does not see himself as  a supreme leader above of the rest but as a simple chef d'orchestre who coordonates things and who has been trusted by the co founders(ramatoulaye,levyson,obama,dodi le talent,dido senga,kassoul) to handle that role and that they dont need president role(president role was destined to espe bass if he did not change his mind after talking with roga)
he talked about kassoul saying its very sad for him because he loved kassoul like a little brother(i think he even lived with him in early zangul days  and was a great friend of his wife chella) and he is almost lost for words when continuing to talk about him
 ulrich keteur teased him several times about roga roga, for example about how he talked " bad" of him when they left and he says he actually did not say everything but he had to give a rather honest answer when he was asked he could not pretend it was all good anymore like when he was in zangul,but anyways he's moved on and he is focused on nouvel horizon
he is also teased again about the fact roga taught him guitar which he always like to adress that all the extra musica guitarists have the same master leo bvegadzi,but indeed roga being more experienced gave him some help to step his game up
 he is asked about bokoko whether he listened  to it he said yeah of course its a good thing for roga and ulrich tries teasing him again that they did not promote vision anymore because bokoko has overshone the whole congolese music and he says he is surprised to hear it from a professional journalist,to which ulrich says he asked question coming from fans,and sonor says he does not buy into that logic of when an artist has a big hit it kills the other artists there is room for anybody one artist having success does not block way for others it can happen sometimes that a second becomes a big hit  but its never something which will paralyse a whole music for years
if anything he is actually proud that roga has a hit,it only helps congo on the african musical map is roga is doing well,them well,kevin mbouande,doudou and co,the more there is artists doing well the more powerful congolese music will be in africa
he got finally asked about vision at some point and was relieved because he tried several times already to bring back focus on nouvel horizon and vision and he says its a good album and that he does not have 4 songs out the 13 because he is the leader or because he is the best of them but he is a writer and it happened that 4 of his songs made the cut during the selection,and he is asked how many songs he has in his career in zangul he says n'julie,gyrophare and rosalin but that many other songs were his but credited to other people
 and that despite him having 4 songs he did not put a different energy on it as arranger he gave his best on all songs like they are his just like the singers gave their best on his songs

Cavalier Solitaire #4 on: January 18, 2022, 14:06

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I thought Gyrophare was a Doudou Copa song and L'oublier was for Sonor?

Mfumu Vata #5 on: January 18, 2022, 14:10

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The Obligatoire CD had some mistakes. When you play Aigle Imperial you will hear Epaka, when you play Epaka you will hear Aigle Imperial. The same for Gyrophare. When you play Gyrophare you will hear l'Oublier and vice-versa.

Cavalier Solitaire #6 on: January 18, 2022, 14:39

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The Obligatoire CD had some mistakes. When you play Aigle Imperial you will hear Epaka, when you play Epaka you will hear Aigle Imperial. The same for Gyrophare. When you play Gyrophare you will hear l'Oublier and vice-versa.

Ah d'accord. I thought the mistakes was just on Epaka and Aigle Imperial.

Manzambi94 #7 on: January 18, 2022, 16:04

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another interview he says he came to france for private reasons(papers surely) but also is using that opportunity to plan on their tour in europe in june with label and producers,and that he did not come alone because he is "the leader" but because he had reasons to come,and that ramatoulaye will come with him next month with him to continue planning after ulrich tells him  that he might be egoistic because when roga comes to france he comes with espe bass,he does not see himself as  a supreme leader above of the rest but as a simple chef d'orchestre who coordonates things and who has been trusted by the co founders(ramatoulaye,levyson,obama,dodi le talent,dido senga,kassoul) to handle that role and that they dont need president role(president role was destined to espe bass if he did not change his mind after talking with roga)
he talked about kassoul saying its very sad for him because he loved kassoul like a little brother(i think he even lived with him in early zangul days  and was a great friend of his wife chella) and he is almost lost for words when continuing to talk about him
 ulrich keteur teased him several times about roga roga, for example about how he talked " bad" of him when they left and he says he actually did not say everything but he had to give a rather honest answer when he was asked he could not pretend it was all good anymore like when he was in zangul,but anyways he's moved on and he is focused on nouvel horizon
he is also teased again about the fact roga taught him guitar which he always like to adress that all the extra musica guitarists have the same master leo bvegadzi,but indeed roga being more experienced gave him some help to step his game up
 he is asked about bokoko whether he listened  to it he said yeah of course its a good thing for roga and ulrich tries teasing him again that they did not promote vision anymore because bokoko has overshone the whole congolese music and he says he is surprised to hear it from a professional journalist,to which ulrich says he asked question coming from fans,and sonor says he does not buy into that logic of when an artist has a big hit it kills the other artists there is room for anybody one artist having success does not block way for others it can happen sometimes that a second becomes a big hit  but its never something which will paralyse a whole music for years
if anything he is actually proud that roga has a hit,it only helps congo on the african musical map is roga is doing well,them well,kevin mbouande,doudou and co,the more there is artists doing well the more powerful congolese music will be in africa
he got finally asked about vision at some point and was relieved because he tried several times already to bring back focus on nouvel horizon and vision and he says its a good album and that he does not have 4 songs out the 13 because he is the leader or because he is the best of them but he is a writer and it happened that 4 of his songs made the cut during the selection,and he is asked how many songs he has in his career in zangul he says n'julie,gyrophare and rosalin but that many other songs were his but credited to other people
 and that despite him having 4 songs he did not put a different energy on it as arranger he gave his best on all songs like they are his just like the singers gave their best on his songs

What were the reasons of Espe Basso not going to ENH and staying with Roga? Plus December have passed and the album by Espe Basso which Roga promosse in the Bokoko album still didn't come. Why Espe Is so loyal to Roga? I don't get It, I don't even think he gets paid that much like Kinens, JDL, or all of the other Number twos in various Congolese groups

archos #8 on: January 18, 2022, 16:23

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they have a 40+ years friendship involving both their families aswell,so everytime espe had wanted to go the families step in  to convince espe not to leave his brother and roga also comes with sweet promises