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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.
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.
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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
