Ambiance Congo: March 24, 2013

WELCOME TO AMBIANCE CONGO!
Here is a show you will not want to miss! I have some really great tracks mixed in here, including classics from Verckys & Le VEVE and from Festival des Maquisards, a couple more examples of the guitar artistry of Master Mwana Congo, a rumba from Bill Clinton and, of course, MORE!
No requests this time? That's OK. You are invited to add one for next time!
Here's a link to get the program and track list:
http://www.yousendit.com/download/UVJqZGVhZy8wVWxqQTlVag
The link expires in two weeks, but a rebroadcast is available here:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=result&action=series&series=Ambiance%20Congo&nav=&
These are some albums you'll hear from:

 

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)Reddy Amisi

ASSISTANT SOCIAL

from the CD CONCERT LIVE: MAMAN ANGEBI

Manu Luvaka ML Production

3) Didi Raphael Louvila & J. Mpouki Kimbolo Ya Djecko

JEFI

from the LP MWANA MA KIMBOLO / MALEKA

JMK / Meya

4)Mangungu Cley

AMOUR MARIA

from the LP VIVEZ..VIBREZ...DANSEZ AVEC MANGUNGU CLEY

Guy Didier Production

5)Bozi Boziana et l’Anti-Choc feat. Jolie Detta

DARSE LIKOTINO

from the CD KING KESTER EMENEYA & BENZ BOZI BOZIANA

Ngoyarto

6)Choc Stars

AU REVOIR PARIS

from the LP CHOC STARS A PARIS 2: SANDRA LA BLONDE

Rythmes et Musique

7)Papa Wemba & Viva la Musica

LAZARET

from the CD MOKILI NGENGE

Dario Production

8)Les Marquis de Maison Mere

MIAMI

from the CD MIRACLES

Simon Music.

PART B

9)Bill Clinton

SANGO YA MAWA

from the CD KULUMBIMBI

Claude Mussay / Big Events

10)King Kester Emeneya

WILLO MONDO

from the LP KESTER EMENEYA

Feel Sound

11)Verckys et l’Orchestre VEVE

DRIBLING YA SOMO

from the LP LASSISSI PRESENTE VERCKYS ET L'ORCHESTRE VEVE

Sacodis

12)Pepe Kalle & Nyboma

NINA

from the CD MOYIBI

Syllart Production

13)Bantous Monument

GARE AU BARATIN

from the LP LES BANTOUS “MONUMENT”

Sonodisc

14)Nouvelle Serie

BIJOUX RECLAMES

from the CD LE PROCUREUR

Denide Production

15)Zaiko Langa-Langa

ZIZITA

from the LP ZAIKO EYI NKISI

Prozal

16) Sam Mangwana l'Orchestre Festival des Maquisards

NKURA ELOMBE

from the CD BILINGA LINGA VOLUME 1

Ngoyarto

*= by request

Ambiance Congo: March 10, 2013

Welcome to Ambiance Congo!
This program is presented every other Sunday on WRIR LP 97.3 FM in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
WRIR's mission as a nonprofit, publicly supported community radio station is to present unrepresented or under-represented news, opinions, issues and music.
With this program, the only such program in the USA that I am aware of, I hope to help to fulfill that mission by raising public awareness and appreciation of a wide variety of Congolese popular music.

A long look and listen at the Ambiance Congo Audio Archives at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Ambiance+Congo will show that I make it my policy to only repeat any given song if that song has been requested by a listener. Over the course of the past eight years, that adds up to a lot of music and, hopefully, illustrates how many artists there are, how many groups there have been and the incredible amount of music has been recorded and produced.
People who are or have been unfamiliar with the genre are usually amazed by the sheer volume and constant quality. When this happens, I feel that WRIR and Ambiance Congo have been successful.

Twice a year, WRIR asks for your support. Today's program was recorded during our Spring 2013 Fund Drive. The program includes a lot of talk about the fund drive and about how you can help to keep WRIR on the air and to keep this program coming. If you appreciate the effort to introduce and present Congolese music to a wide range of listeners -and the results of that effort- please donate whatever you can and be sure to tell WRIR that you enjoy and appreciate Ambiance Congo.
https://wrir.wufoo.com/forms/fund-drive-donation-wrirlp-973-fm/
Thank you, and thanks to all who have already responded to the call. The Fund Drive ends soon.

The show is an all-vinyl program that filled a number of your requests and I hope that you will enjoy hearing all of the songs as much as I enjoyed presenting them.
Here are a few album covers:

 

You may download the podcast with track list here:

 http://www.yousendit.com/download/UVJpU2VuTkFreER2bk1UQw

The link will be good for two weeks.

Here's 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)African Fiesta

CAMALEE

from the LP AUTHENTICITIE VOLUME 2

African

3)Orchestre Les Noirs

MOSASA NDEMBO

from the LP HIT PARADE AFRICAIN VOL. 3

Pathe Marconi

4)Buesso M’Bemba *

PAPA JAQUES

from the LP FAFIKIDE

CILL World Wide

5) L'Amiral Cheri-Gau & Les Officiers of African Music

CONSPIRATION

from the LP NIANZI GAULARD *

Savas

 

6) Didi Raphael Louvila

GISELE *

from the LP DIDI RAPHAEL LOUVILA

Meya

7)Zaiko Langa-Langa

BETOSSIA

from the LP SOKITEMBE BOMEKA TATA NZAMBE SALISABETO

Gilette D’Or

PART B

8)L’Orchestre Kamale

AYINDJO

from the LP LES EDITIONS VEVE PRESENTENT L'ORCHESTRE KAMALE & SON CELEBRE CHANTEUR NYBOMA (DAVOS)

African

9)Choc Stars

OZI

from the LP KELEMANI

Espera

10)Le N’Ganshie Stervos Niarcos *

KINSHASA-BRAZZA

from the LP DERNIER COUP DE SIFFLET

Americano Productions

11)Dally Kimoko

SABINA

from the LP LASSISSI PRESENTE DALLY KIMOKO

Sacodis International

12)Faya Tess, Tabu Ley & L’Afrisa International

SKOL ELEKI NYONSO

from the LP MOTO AKOKUFA

Africa 7

*= by request