Author Topic: Was this an official Viva "Cour des Grands"/Nouvelle Ecriture album ?  (Read 851 times)

Mfumu Vata on: January 20, 2025, 00:14

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Was it an official album or just a nzong-nzing album like "Ya Biso Moko" ? Because I think that it is the least promoted Viva album. Was it just a producer that had songs but wanted artists to back them like OGP did with Madilu and Josky by recording Chiffre 3 in 2005 and Dario Kindongo by asking help from Wemba in 1990 with Mokili Ngele ?




Was it an album solo-album from a Viva-guitarist and the label instead of using his face, using the face of singers, like Mwana Mabetu which is normally Timololo's solo album or an album from a sapeur-songwriter, but all songs being sung by Viva La Musica, like the way Modogo Gianfranco Ferre's first 3 albums (Jour J de l'Histoire Romaine, Place Vendome and Statue de Liberté "Ba Venants") were not sung by him, but just Viva la Musica ?




It seems that the executive producer was a pro-Cour des Grands fan, by writing "Ba lengelaka molakisi nzela, ba kanisi ba komi nzoka nano bakomi te. Ba leki bosalaka ngele. Nzela eleki molayi. But he can't say it, because the singers of Nouvelle Ecriture didn't got alot of space in the album compared to the singers of Viva Cour des Grands, who sung lead almost every song of the album.

About the way the producer wrote it, made me think about those days, when there was some kind of a conflict between Viva-fans about some not being happy the way Papa Wemba was promoting Nouvelle Ecriture alot and ignoring Viva la Musica "Cour des Grands". However, the huge majority were  supporting Nouvelle Ecriture. The conflict came to another point, when Wemba released Fula Ngenge, where he used Alpatchino as atalaku. Some not being happy because of the way it normally goes against the original Viva-ideology, where it's said that a sapeur doesn't dance and a small minority deciding to turn their back. You had also the Zenith of June 2000, where Wemba was only backed by Nouvelle Ecriture, due from the demand of fans, after the Zenith of March 1999, where different bands performed (Molokai, Viva la Musica, Le Quatro and Nouvelle Ecriture). The concerts that followed also being done without Viva la Musica "Cour des Grands", which frustrated bandmembers like Stino, Reddy and co, who were temped to leave, but decided to team up and record Fin d'Exil, to prove Wemba a point. But ended up by leaving anyway, because of Fin d'Exil's reception, stuff that happened behind the scenes and Wemba still staying passive.

During these tensions, some old-school fans started confronting Wemba about it in press-conferences of 1998, 1999 and 2000, but Wemba would defend himself, by saying that guys like Gloria, Stino and co became old and starting to sing off key in concerts. Also that Alpatchino brought some innovation, but that it wasn't Ndombolo compared to Reddy and Stino, who betrayed Viva la Musica in his eyes. It's only after Stino and Reddy's departure that he changed his mind, decided to tour with Viva "Cour des Grands" in United States and Canada (2001), while the contract was meant for Nouvelle Ecriture, also gave them space some space in the Bakala dia Kuba-album (Fondation Mundele, Mawe and Sujet de Prière). When the Bercy-tour ended, he announced a joint-album of Nouvelle Ecriture and Viva la Musica "Cour des Grands", but when he returned to Kinshasa and did Stade des Martyrs, he changed his mind announced the album Somo Trop "Bilamba Mabe".

CM PRINCE #1 on: January 20, 2025, 07:37

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I really like this album Ocean did a good job doing the animations even though they were the same cries from attentat and force de frappe lol. I think it was a nzing zong album because in the credits it would say which musician came from another group like Ocean for example it says ex animateur de Koffi Olomide.
This album brings back memories when I was in the US years ago before streaming took over we rented a car and didn’t have any CD’s and my cousin only had this CD which he gave us so we only kept listening to this album back to back for hourssss on the road lol.