Ambiance Congo: February 21, 2016

Welcome!
I have a really good mix of older music and new music for you today! There's a new maxi-single from JB M'Piana and another form Roga Roga & Extra Musica. It's great to hear from JB again, but I'd like to hear more than three songs and an instrumental! Let's hope more is on the way. JB, Roga Roga and Tex Mabote have killed it in this set with hard-driving music that builds to great seben, something I am loving to hear again!
I'm loving what the new wave of Afrisa is doing here in the USA, so included today is a track from their first Paris album which I bought some 20 odd years ago and still enjoy today.

Thanks to Dave in Liverpool recommendations of Christian Guillame and Desouza Santu and
I hope that our friend Banda Aime, who commented that he thinks that I "hate Papa Wemba", has seen that this is just not true!

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Tracks:

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) Le Prince Youlou Mabiala & Orchestre Kamikaze Loningisa

KARIBU

from the LP KARIBU

Rythmes et Musique

3) Desouza Santu

ADJATA DE PEPE KALLE

from the CD LES AMBASSADEURS

Alain Nditchout Production

4) Viva la Musica de Papa Wemba*

EKABO

from the CD MOKILI PITIE

Lubaka-M Production

 5) Christian Guillaume “Le Conquistador”

AMBARA KUZIAMA

from the CD PREMIERE VISION

KFG Productions

6) Tex Mabote & Le Stargate

SPECULATION

from the CD CYCLONE

Production Freddy Mputu

 7) JB M’Piana

CORRECTION

from the CD ECHAUFFEMENT AVANT MATCH

Production Taty Wabela

8) Roga Roga & Extra Musica

MOPEPE YA SIKA

from the CD OYO EKOYA EYA

Ibrok’s Production

PART B

 9) Wawali Bonane et l'Afrisa International de l'an 2000

FRANCY MI AMOR

from the LP HISTORIA MARIE-FEE

Caravane Production

11) Seigneur Tabu Ley et l'Afrisa International

TANGA TANGA

from the LP ROCHEREAU A ABIDJAN VOL.III

I.N.A Productions/Disco Stock

11)Le Poete Lutumba Simaro & Bana OK

SOLEIL

from the CD BANA OKILO YA KINSHASA

Babi Production et Bondowe Production

12) Benz Petrole

BONNE CHANCE

from the CD BYE BYE CD 2

Benz Petrole Production

13) Nyboma & Les Kamale Dynamiques

LES GENERATIONS

from the LP COEUR A COEUR

Maikano

14) Les Bantous de la Capitale

DEGE

from the LP LA RENAISSANCE

Music Press

15) Mose “Fan Fan”

Soamo

from the CD THE CONGO ACOUSTIC

Triple Earth

*=by request

Ambiance Congo: February 7, 2016

Welcome to Ambiance Congo radio program!
Today we have some wonderful music from the 80s and 90s and some new music as well.
We start with a dedication to our Kenyan friends, a recording of Franco and TP OK Jazz recorded in Nairobi. How many of you were fortunate enough to attend one or more live performances by the All Powerful OK Jazz?
I recently obtained a beautiful copy of Edo Ganga's Pot-Pourri sur le Passe... Pont sur Congo-Zaire LP, an album I heard many years ago but have never, until now, been able to find in good condition. It's a gem, and if you don't care for pot-pourri compositions, this album may change your mind. There are also two short songs by Edo Ganga on the album, and we hear one of those today.
We start off the second hour with a track from from the new CD by ex-Grand Zaiko Tex Mambote. I liked his first CD, Coup de Foudre, so much that I bought this new one, Cyclone, without sampling the songs...and I have not been disappointed at all. There are some excellent compositions and arrangements here, accented by great guitars by invitees Caen Madoka and Beniko Popolipo. We will definitely be hearing more tracks on future programs!
We also have a cut from Luciana Demingongo's new Romeo Sans Juliette. This was recommended to me, and it has a couple of excellent songs, but IMHO it just doesn't live up to his great last album, Zanzibar.
Mixing the new and the classic makes the best programs, I think. What about you?
Listen here:
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or archived here:
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Tracks:

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) Franco et ses Stars du T.P. OK Jazz

EPERDEMENT

from the LP A NAIROBI

Edipop

 

3) Edo Ganga

C’EST TOUJORS COMME CA

from the LP PONT SUR CONGO-ZAIRE

Les Editions Congo All Stars

4N’Zaya & L’African Nova

GAMBELA

from the LP NOSTALGIE

Ets. Discorama

5) Orchestre Stukas Mata Kita

LOPATA

from the LP L'AFRIQUE DANSE: ORCHESTRES VIVA LA MUSICA, STUKAS CAIMAN, EMPIRE BAKUBA, STUKAS MATA KITA

African

 

6) Bozi Boziana & l’Anti-Choc

TSHOLY

from the LP TSHOLY

Rythmes et Musique

7) Djuna Djanana

GABONNAISE

from the LP AFRICAINES

Rythmes et Musique

PART B

 

8) Tex Mambote “Commandant Oasis”

1er SOMMATION

from the CD CYCLONE

Production Freddy Mputu

9) Werrason & Wenge Musica Maison Mere

YAKA TOLUKA MWANA

from the CD FLECHE INGETA

Werrason World

11) Fally Ipupa & F’Victeam

PLUS QUE BEBE

from the CD LIBRE PARCOURS

F’Victeam

11)Felix Wazekwa & Cultur’A Pays-vie

AMBULANCE

from the CD I LOVE YOU

Fondation Wazekwa

12) Saint Petro

BA PEKISI NGA KOLELA

from the CD MYSTERE

Sonima Music

 

13) Luciana Demingongo

DESTIN

from the CD ROMEO SANS JULIETTE

Production Mtsi

14) Modogo Gian Franco Ferre

BANKA Y’ ANGLETERRE

from the CD INTEGRATION

MG Productions

15) Yakini Kiese feat. Pepe Kalle et Koffi Olomide

ELIKIA

from the LP THE STRUGGLING-MAN

Ets. Kaluila