Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Ambiance Congo: November 20, 2011

WELCOME!
Recent trends and fashions in Congolese music have led to a lot of commentary about how bad these trends and fashions have been. The guitar-led sebene has been a rare element in new music, a lot of new albums are filled with yawn-inducing ballads and songs with incomprehensible tempo changes, noisy atalaku calls and growling, mabanga-filled lyrics. These are all valid complaints, but not all new music should be readily dismissed and there are, in fact, quite a number of good songs and good albums being made.
On today's progam, I've tried to present for you some examples of the good new songs out there on the Congo music scene, songs produced in the last year or two. For variety and comparison, the show starts and ends with some older tracks, most presented originally some ten to twenty years ago.
I'd love to hear your comments on today's selections. Thanks for listening!
Here the covers of a few of the albums you'll hear this time around on Ambiance Congo.
Download the prgram here:
This link will be good for the next two weeks only, but the show will also be available in the Ambiance Congo Audio Archives. Find it in the links section of this page.
Here's the track list.

PART A
1)King Kester Emeneya & Victoria Eleison DTDB
sebene from DORIS ILOKO (this program’s theme song)
from the CD PAS DE CONTACT
Black Music

2)Kichar Kilesa
YE KILESA
from the LP THE BEST OF BETO BAYAYI
Afro Rythmes

3)Reddy Amisi
DESTINEE
from the CD ZIGGY
Galaxie Productions

4)General Defao & Big Stars
MOSKY
from the CD THE UNDERTAKER
Ets. Kauila

5)Werrason & Wenge Maison Mere
CAYENNE
from the CD TECHNO MALEWA SUITE ET FIN VOL. 2
Diego Music

6)JBlue “El Buddha”
THIERRY KONGOLO
from the CD PASSE PARTOUT
Duo D’Enfer

7)Felix Wazekwa
ALITA
from the CD/DVD LIVE A L’OLYMPIA BRUNO COQUATRIX
Dario Kindongo

8)Tabu Ley Rochereau
EXIL-LEY
from the CD THE VOICE OF LIGHTNESS VOL. 2
Sterns Africa

PART B
9)Joss Diena
LES PAROLES
from the CD VITRINE
Bana Music

10)Ferre Gola
3eme DOIGT
from the CD QUI EST DERRIERE TOI?
DRTV Production

11)Doudou Copa
NAZO KAMWA TE
from the CD EVOLUTION
Regis Production

12)Roga Roga & Extra Musica
BRICE ANGA GOLO
from the CD SOCELLERIE (KINDOKI)
Letiok Production

13)Impression Des As
COEUR BATTU
from the CD BANA LIBALA
Sonima Music

14)Fara Fara
VIBRATION
from the CD UNITE CONGOLAISE
Section Zouk

15)Young Bakuba Band
PASI-NA-MOLEMA
from the CD SACRIFICE
Vibrations

*=by request

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Ambiance Congo: November 6, 2011

WELCOME!nce again to Ambiance Congo.
I hope that you'll enjoy the program. In my on-going efforts to provide you with the best quality that I can, I've tried a new way to record the program, while presenting it live on air, for those of you who are unable to listen live.
As this was a bit of an experiment, the first couple of songs may be amped up a bit too high, but overall it sounds very good to me. Please let me know what you think! If your feedback tells me that this is an improvement, I will do my best to continue with it this way in the future.
As usual, today's show is a mix of older music and new releases.
Here are some of the album covers.
The program is available for download here:
This link is good for two weeks only, but after that please find it archived by visting the Ambiance Congo Audio Archives link.
This is the track list:
PART A
1)King Kester Emeneya & Victoria Eleison Dream Team Dream
Band
sebene from DORIS ILOKO (this program’s theme song)
from the CD PAS DE CONTACT
Black Music

2)Zaiko Langa-Langa
BO!
from the CD BANDE-ANNONCE
Prozal

3)Roga Roga
INGRATITUDE
from the CD TERRE SACREE ACT 2
Lumieres D’Afrique

4)Bozi Boziana
MA RAISON D’ETRE
from the CD MA RAISON D’ETRE
Sanis J.M. Production

5)Choc Stars
NDUMBA ELENGI *
from the LP CHOC STARS
Rythmes et Musique

6)Empire Bakuba
MILLE BAISERS
from the LP TROP C’EST TROP
Rythmes et Musique

7)Jpson Cardinal
AGNEAUX
from the CD DIAGNOSTIC
FMGA Productions

8)Werrason & Wenge Maison Mere
REMISE ET REPRISE
from the CD TECHNO MALEWA SUITE ET FIN VOL.1
Diego Music

PART B
9)Solo Ndinga & Alliance Nord-Sud
REUSSITE
from the CD CONTROL!
World Music Productions

10)Franco & Le T.P. O.K. Jazz
AMOUR PERDU
from the LP CHEZ SAFARI CLUB DE BRUXELLES
Edipop Production

11)Le Prince Youlou Mabiala & Orchestre Kamikaze Loningisa
TOMANITU
from the LP SPECIAL 3eme ANNIVERSAIRE
Musiclub

12)MJ30
3eme DOIGT
from the CD LA VALEUR SURE
Yalolo Nsuami & Paulin Mukendi

13)3615 Code Niawu
OYAYA
from the CD BEL AMI…
AJIP Production

14)Modogo Gian Franco Ferre
RADJA
from the CD INTEGRATION
MG Production

15)Wenge El Paris
KANDA-N’GOBILA
from the CD COUVRE-FEU
Ets. N’Diaye

*=by request