Author Topic: THE CODES OF CONGOLESE MUSIC  (Read 13080 times)

SLK97 #15 on: May 08, 2020, 19:32

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I've got another one about how albums were recorded, especially when bands went abroad. Unless albums were recorded live in the studio (the entire band does the song in one take), how were they recorded when guys like Phillipe Guez and Sec Bidens were in charge of arrangements and programmations? I also want more detail as to how these guys crafted the songs.

@Manzambi @Archos however you want to prioritise this is up to you.

Franco Pepe Kalle #16 on: May 09, 2020, 05:01

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Where the system 12 come from and who was the first to start? I want truth on that one.

shamala #17 on: May 09, 2020, 11:59

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Being a female fan , I want to understand the recruitment of female dancers and how dancers can just shift and come back to groups, how on earth is that possible?

and how one is appointed chef, who decides who joins who doesn't etc
PORTE-PAROLE NON OFFICIEL DE JB MPIANA ET WENGE BCBG.

Cavalier Solitaire #18 on: May 09, 2020, 12:05

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Also the influence of tribe or ethnicity on who joins what group and the previlledges that acrue as a result of being a tribesmen with the leader of the group. I have heard that one leader started preffering only his tribesmen (swahili) musicians.

Manzambi94 #19 on: May 09, 2020, 12:40

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Also the influence of tribe or ethnicity on who joins what group and the previlledges that acrue as a result of being a tribesmen with the leader of the group. I have heard that one leader started preffering only his tribesmen (swahili) musicians.

Mmmm who was it though? For example Pdpe Kalle was a Muswahili but I don't think that Djuna was I think Djuna was a baKongo. Werra is a bayaka a term for the baKongos who do not want to follow the BaKongo rules amd the Matriarchal lineage of society Koffi is mixed I think his father is from Sierra Leone? (That will explain his perfrct english) and his mother Congolese but I forgot from where maybe a mungala tribe. JB is 100% Muluba and goes crazy when you make cries about that. Till this day that crie of Bem Laden and Genta in Kiyunguzuna is played everywhere. "Eh Mwana Muluba e e Sulutani Mwana Mulub'e"


3:50


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8:23

Fally is a Mungala, Fabregas is also part of the Mungala family, Deplick is a muluba if I am not wrong Brigade and Capuccino are MuSwahilis, Ferre is a BaKongo but since he grew in Kinshasa so he is the typical me me me attitude of Kinshasa, Felix Wazekwa I don't know but Archos will definitely know his tribe.


What I like about Congolese musicians except for some heated argument between the two Wenge's there isn't much tribalism in Congolese music is not rare to hear BaNgalas singing KiKongo songs or BaKongo singing Swahili songs Muluba songs etc. For example Nande is a song in Congolese's Swahili by Werra despite him being a Bayaka eee munangeeee mmm that song is sweet




About Atalakus I hve already said that Brigade is a muswahili, Lobeso is a Mongo which they are like a more raw version of Bangalad they talk Mongo which is the original lingala since Lingala is mixed with a lot BaKongo words for example Falanga in original lingala which means money is nowadays Mbongo which is standard KiKongo Nzingu insead is heavy KiKongo the dialect of main KiKongo or for example Ndjakomba which means God in Mongo/Original Lingala which has been substituted by Nzambe which is a transliteratuon of the word Nzambi which means God in KiKongo


After that Eclipse is a Muluba, Genta is kinda mixed and has some BaKongo in him, Pajo looks like a typical Bangala very dark but has kind of a not very known name so I can't say with certainity, Cellulaire was a Mungala (his name was Vanga Motema) Fusee is a baluba Celeo a BaKongo and then I don't know there are too many but I don't which was the Swahili leader accepting only Swahili musicians might be Koffi? But Koffi doesn't look a muswahili to mee. The sad fact is that Lingala despite making Congolese music big shoved the door for KiKongo, Swahili and Balubs songs to br mainstream in Congo

archos #20 on: May 09, 2020, 13:44

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Bro manzambi pepe kalle is muluba,djuna mumbafu mukongo,werra is half muyaka half muyanzi,fally is half mungala half from bandundu its actually his mother who is mungala and his dad from bandundu(its like heritier his father is mungala and his mother muluba but people consider him a full muluba)
fabregas is musakata,one of the ethnies of bandundu,deplick muluba,brigade and capuccino both half muswahili half muluba,wazekwa is mukongo besi ngombe,eclipse is musakata,genta mukongo mungala,celeo a 100 per cent mungala

Cavalier Solitaire #21 on: May 09, 2020, 20:16

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@Archos of what ethnicity is Elodie Ebondja?

Mfumu Vata #22 on: May 09, 2020, 20:47

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Bro manzambi pepe kalle is muluba,djuna mumbafu mukongo,werra is half muyaka half muyanzi,fally is half mungala half from bandundu its actually his mother who is mungala and his dad from bandundu(its like heritier his father is mungala and his mother muluba but people consider him a full muluba)
fabregas is musakata,one of the ethnies of bandundu,deplick muluba,brigade and capuccino both half muswahili half muluba,wazekwa is mukongo besi ngombe,eclipse is musakata,genta mukongo mungala,celeo a 100 per cent mungala

I always thought that Werrason was a half mumbala/half muyaka, because of the way he was doing mumbala vocal impro’s in Wenge 4x4 and also the song Kalayi Boeing (which was in kimbala) giving the village Masi-Mandimba a shoutout.

archos #23 on: May 09, 2020, 21:19

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Bro manzambi pepe kalle is muluba,djuna mumbafu mukongo,werra is half muyaka half muyanzi,fally is half mungala half from bandundu its actually his mother who is mungala and his dad from bandundu(its like heritier his father is mungala and his mother muluba but people consider him a full muluba)
fabregas is musakata,one of the ethnies of bandundu,deplick muluba,brigade and capuccino both half muswahili half muluba,wazekwa is mukongo besi ngombe,eclipse is musakata,genta mukongo mungala,celeo a 100 per cent mungala

I always thought that Werrason was a half mumbala/half muyaka, because of the way he was doing mumbala vocal impro’s in Wenge 4x4 and also the song Kalayi Boeing (which was in kimbala) giving the village Masi-Mandimba a shoutout.

yeah you are right i made a mistake,its marie paul who is half yanzi half yaka

Mfumu Vata #24 on: May 09, 2020, 21:26

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Bro manzambi pepe kalle is muluba,djuna mumbafu mukongo,werra is half muyaka half muyanzi,fally is half mungala half from bandundu its actually his mother who is mungala and his dad from bandundu(its like heritier his father is mungala and his mother muluba but people consider him a full muluba)
fabregas is musakata,one of the ethnies of bandundu,deplick muluba,brigade and capuccino both half muswahili half muluba,wazekwa is mukongo besi ngombe,eclipse is musakata,genta mukongo mungala,celeo a 100 per cent mungala

I always thought that Werrason was a half mumbala/half muyaka, because of the way he was doing mumbala vocal impro’s in Wenge 4x4 and also the song Kalayi Boeing (which was in kimbala) giving the village Masi-Mandimba a shoutout.

yeah you are right i made a mistake,its marie paul who is half yanzi half yaka

I saw Marie Paul once saying that Emeneya is his uncle. Is that true ? Or is it that they had the same luvila (clan/village) ?

archos #25 on: May 09, 2020, 21:29

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yeah emeneya and de paul's grandmothers are sisters if i remember well

Manzambi94 #26 on: May 09, 2020, 22:03

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Bro manzambi pepe kalle is muluba,djuna mumbafu mukongo,werra is half muyaka half muyanzi,fally is half mungala half from bandundu its actually his mother who is mungala and his dad from bandundu(its like heritier his father is mungala and his mother muluba but people consider him a full muluba)
fabregas is musakata,one of the ethnies of bandundu,deplick muluba,brigade and capuccino both half muswahili half muluba,wazekwa is mukongo besi ngombe,eclipse is musakata,genta mukongo mungala,celeo a 100 per cent mungala

To be honest Deplick doesn't seem like the typical muluba. If I didn't knew he was Muluba I would expect that he was a BaKongo or a mixed Mungala. Of what ethnicity is Koffi is he really from Sierra Leone? And what about his mother? Let me guess I think his mother is a Mongo because Koffi is particularly loving of the Mongo style. What about the Zebola style it is Congolese or Ivoirian?

Mfumu Vata #27 on: May 09, 2020, 22:46

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Bakongo is plurial and mukongo is singular.

Why would Congolese people of the 20th copy a rhythm coming from another African country ?Apart American and Cuban music, 80% of the rhythms until the 2000s were inspired from our tribes (Budja, Mongo, Luba, Kongo, Mbala, etc.)
 Like I said in other threads, Zebola is a rhythm coming from the Équateur province, where it was played when they were exorcing people. The rhythm was brought in Quartier Latin by Do Akongo.

Koffi’s mother (Maman Amy) is 50% a mutelela and 50% soera leone. Back in the colonial era you had alot of people coming from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, etc. (They were calling them ba popo) to work in the administration, because Belgian people weren’t trusting Congolese people. Koffi’s father is an Akula (a tribe from Equateur) and Ngbaka.

About Koffi loving the mongo style is not really true. Because he used promote music of bambala (intro of Olympia, intro of all Noblesse Oblige concerts), muthuasi and music of the Budja-tribe more in the 90s and early 2000 then any other music. Koffi is the one of the rare artist who doesn’t privilege music  of his tribe and who always mix. In interview he says often that he’s anti tribalist and 100% nationalist


archos #28 on: May 23, 2020, 13:22

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The series will start  from next week lol the little boy had been "blocking " the computer for that damn fortnite thing  :D :D :D
i will start with the way hierarchy is built in groups

Congolitude #29 on: May 23, 2020, 13:47

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The series will start  from next week lol the little boy had been "blocking " the computer for that damn fortnite thing  :D :D :D
i will start with the way hierarchy is built in groups
No problem bro, tozo zela kaka