Author Topic: ARCHIVE ADOLPHE DOMINGUEZ PERFORMING AT BATACLAN WITH Z1 INTERNATIONAL  (Read 1010 times)

archos on: August 10, 2026, 13:50

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from 23 30 Thats a very rare case of a leader performing with another band for that long

Mfumu Vata #1 on: August 13, 2026, 01:09

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I am happy to see the images. I had read articles about the event and saw posters back in the days, but I had never seen the images. I wonder were the part of Anti Choc and Z1 International themselves is. Because on posters it was present as a event of them three (Adolphe Dominguez, Anti Choc and Z1 International).

Adolphe asking people above to go to the last floor makes it seem that Bataclan wasn’t packed that night. Z1 international did a good job when they backed Adolphe. I wonder what led Mr Simon to organise the event. Did he want to have an event for Z1 International themselves, but knowing that it would be difficult for them to fill the hall and him associating Anti Choc and Adolphe Dominguez or was it a way for Adolphe Dominguez to bring some ngulu’s to Europe ? There's a point where Adolphe talks about an event at l'Olympia for September 8th organised by Mr Simon ? Why did the event not take place ? Did Adolphe first want to release Affaire Tonya Tonya or did he had more trust into Kapesa ? In my opinion it was a historical mistake to start Wenge Tonya Tonya's Europe tour with LSC and doing l'Olympia as the last show.

Is the lightskin dancer Mimi la Japonaise who came with Werrason to Europe for Bercy but ran away only to back Adolphe Dominguez later in several playback shows he did in Europe (Brussels, Paris and  Lausanne) along with Didier Anaconda, Anti Gigolo ?

Was the cover of this cassette, the one which had the picture of JB Mpiana that was used for Internet being written in big Jeannette and a picture of Z1 International ? The clips of JB Mpiana that had either Damien Dimoneke or Mr Simon involved were often weird. Nazareth was a clip which had Damien son Brandon as a witch. Feux de l’Amour had two woman kissing each other on the neck, looking like an intro of a typical pornvideo from 1990s. Education which had a baby who was totally naked. Btw I heard that Damien became a pastor in Kinshasa.

I don’t remember if it was Regis Touba, Durrel Loemba or someone else of Z1 International, but one of them said that they already shot a clip for Ambiance Chocolat in front of Stade de France, but Mr. Simon was mad for the clip not having a girl in it, which made them shoot a new one in Brazzaville with one girl dancing in a kitchen and another one in a bathroom. It’s a shame that Regis Toube left Z1 International quickly for a solo-career that failed only to start a failed aventure in Wenge BCBG to rejoin Extra Musica. Z1 International had so much potential. Durrel and Regis had to stick to replace Extra Musica International as number one rival of Zangul.

What is the name of the artist of the 3th videoclip. I recognize him from the videotape of JB Mpiana’s Olympia, where Mr Simon at some moment presented him as the future of African music during the moment they were celebrating the succes of the show. Also the clip itself had images from him doing the first part.Was the guy a successful artist in Cameroon ? Also were there outside Congolese artists also artists from other African countries on Mr Simon’s label SIPE Production that were successful ?Because it seems that it were only Congolese big names that were signing with Mr Simon