Im buying this one!! Lol
I went to a wenge 4X4 concert back in the 90's, I wasn't even 10...but when I saw Makaba,that's all I could talk about..."How the F does he play and danse at the same time?"lol...

That intro guitar partition of Mulolo at Min 2.20!! hmmmm elengi!!!

Ahhh, it has been long waited for! And what a sound! I hope he describes in the tutorial how he sets the effects.

Makaba in my opinion was one of the most influential soloist in the history of Congolese music. He came during a period that bridged the old school style like Roxy Tshimpaka, Diblo Dibala, Dally etc into the Flamme Kapayas of today. Ive watched many concerts of him live and no one else has as much energy nor finesse playing like him.  In my book he easily goes down as one of the top 5 to touch soukous.

  This is a zaiko song but he killed the solo!

BG-ground & Zaiko,

You’ve watched many concerts of him but not many concerts of other Congolese Guitarists.  I don’t think you had a chance to watch Bongo Wende live. He dances while playing guitar...he can play SOLO GUITAR DURING A LIVE CONCERT WITH HIS TEETH WITHOUT MESSING UP(yes...you read me...I said TEETH LOL  ). Have you ever seen that? Yves Demukuse dances and jumps while playing. Safro Manzangi was always dancing (from the beginning to the end of a seben). Alain Makaba is one of the best; I like him and love how his guitar sounds. Just keep in mind there are some Guitarists that are not very comfortable dancing while playing but they are genius (like Rigo Star, Popolipo, Dally Kimoko, Huit Kilos, etc).

BG-ground & Zaiko,

You’ve watched many concerts of him but not many concerts of other Congolese Guitarists.  I don’t think you had a chance to watch Bongo Wende live. He dances while playing guitar...he can play SOLO GUITAR DURING A LIVE CONCERT WITH HIS TEETH WITHOUT MESSING UP(yes...you read me...I said TEETH LOL  ). Have you ever seen that? Yves Demukuse dances and jumps while playing. Safro Manzangi was always dancing (from the beginning to the end of a seben). Alain Makaba is one of the best; I like him and love how his guitar sounds. Just keep in mind there are some Guitarists that are not very comfortable dancing while playing but they are genius (like Rigo Star, Popolipo, Dally Kimoko, Huit Kilos, etc).

I was watching an interview of Safro and he spoke about his stage antics and I only realised that he's actually the father to one guitarist I like in London who sometimes plays at Renato Mondele's shows, the boy has learnt well from his father!

BG-ground & Zaiko,

You’ve watched many concerts of him but not many concerts of other Congolese Guitarists.  I don’t think you had a chance to watch Bongo Wende live. He dances while playing guitar...he can play SOLO GUITAR DURING A LIVE CONCERT WITH HIS TEETH WITHOUT MESSING UP(yes...you read me...I said TEETH LOL  ). Have you ever seen that? Yves Demukuse dances and jumps while playing. Safro Manzangi was always dancing (from the beginning to the end of a seben). Alain Makaba is one of the best; I like him and love how his guitar sounds. Just keep in mind there are some Guitarists that are not very comfortable dancing while playing but they are genius (like Rigo Star, Popolipo, Dally Kimoko, Huit Kilos, etc).

Ive watched videos from all of those guys.  Its not simply dancing that I'm referring exactly.  The overall ease that he plays pretty complex solos, his past work and the shift in sound he helped usher into soukous.  Im no expert on the solo guitar but I play. There are are a handful of soloist that Ive found it pretty challenging to play their work and his is one of them. He was the last before the Kapayas

BG-ground & Zaiko,

You’ve watched many concerts of him but not many concerts of other Congolese Guitarists.  I don’t think you had a chance to watch Bongo Wende live. He dances while playing guitar...he can play SOLO GUITAR DURING A LIVE CONCERT WITH HIS TEETH WITHOUT MESSING UP(yes...you read me...I said TEETH LOL  ). Have you ever seen that? Yves Demukuse dances and jumps while playing. Safro Manzangi was always dancing (from the beginning to the end of a seben). Alain Makaba is one of the best; I like him and love how his guitar sounds. Just keep in mind there are some Guitarists that are not very comfortable dancing while playing but they are genius (like Rigo Star, Popolipo, Dally Kimoko, Huit Kilos, etc).

I know what you talking about...See, I was a Wenge and Zaiko fan to begin with.I'd go to wenge concerts only if Makaba was there! I've heard and seen Safro & Bongo Wende on TV! Safro doesn't play Solo plus at their time the dance move were not coordinated lol(this is me at 13yrs old talking)...Playing with his teeth? The only one from Zaire that I knew could do that was Abeti Masikini's little Brother

you can see bongo wende showing his skils here
hahahahaha vieux libeck lita bembo and his karate moves i think shakakongo had not join his group yet at that time or he would be in that concert aswell

you can see bongo wende showing his skils here
hahahahaha vieux libeck lita bembo and his karate moves i think shakakongo had not join his group yet at that time or he would be in that concert aswell

Hmmm somo!!
 So Shakakongo was a musician before? I was wondering why he aligns himself with musicians,makes sense now.

yes he was dancer and later tenor singer and was even preparing his album around the maisha days then from the death of a comedian where he contributed as one of the members of organization,he had that idea of creating his association to help artists in case of death,illness,arrest(the cases of gesac,licha shombo,celeo,lacoste for example over the last years) and put his career aside to focus on that

yes he was dancer and later tenor singer and was even preparing his album around the maisha days then from the death of a comedian where he contributed as one of the members of organization,he had that idea of creating his association to help artists in case of death,illness,arrest(the cases of gesac,licha shombo,celeo,lacoste for example over the last years) and put his career aside to focus on that

Ah i see, thanx for that info no wonder he was singing in a recent video, i think it's a King Kester or Babia tribute video.

Is it Bongo Wende who is playing the solo here, too from 1:12:54 :

Yes you are correct