Would both Wenge Maison Mere, Wenge BCBG and Wenge Tonya Tonya receive the label of "orchestre ya ba vieuxs" if they kept the original Wenge 4x4 rhythm ? Like the way Zaiko received it in 1992, OK Jazz receiving it in 1972 (although killing and stealing musicians from Continental and Thu Zahina trying to fight Zaiko) and musicians like Wendo & co in 1953 who were not playing in the system of an orchestra like Grand Kalle Jeff with his African Jazz but just like griots. Or would the system of keeping recruiting musicians of a young age and no unknown bands breaking through save them ?
Quote from: Mfumu Vata on January 12, 2023, 21:01Would both Wenge Maison Mere, Wenge BCBG and Wenge Tonya Tonya receive the label of "orchestre ya ba vieuxs" if they kept the original Wenge 4x4 rhythm ? Like the way Zaiko received it in 1992, OK Jazz receiving it in 1972 (although killing and stealing musicians from Continental and Thu Zahina trying to fight Zaiko) and musicians like Wendo & co in 1953 who were not playing in the system of an orchestra like Grand Kalle Jeff with his African Jazz but just like griots. Or would the system of keeping recruiting musicians of a young age and no unknown bands breaking through save them ?By the way what is the difference between the original Wenge BCBG 4X4 sound and their offshore, like Maison Mere JB's BCBG, Blaise Bula etc. Because I can't understand the difference when peoole say that JB does Zaiko music how d I distinguish it from the original Wenge sound? And for example Why Ça Sonne, Sound Sol or even Mayi Ya Sika aren't seen as the original Wenge sound, because for example the only clear example of Maison Mere not following the Wenge sound to me Us The Techno Malewa Generique, very slow pace and almost Décale type rather than the fast pace guitar
i would describe it like thiswenge maison mere is the mix of original wenge seben,station japan's faster sebene with the recall of japonais next to which flamme developped what became the maison mere tempo,then later werra implemented folkloric influencebcbg's tempo is the continuation of the feux de l'amour style by makaba a not too agressive style of sebene compared to the direction it could have taken after pentagone,alain himself being a zaiko fan inspired himself a lot of zaiko soloist for sebene,but the reason why people say that bcbg's sebene is like zaiko is the amount of chorus animation way higher than most group where the atalakus just gets some answer here and there but mainly leads and also the same folkloric influence tonya tonya's sebene is a mix of wenge and empire with the presence of papillon and kalo bassblaise's sebene however is closer to the original wenge sebene because he either uses alain makaba himself or gets his guitarists like toussaint baku or yahwe na solo to reproduce the style of makaba