Soukous from the islands of Sao Tome & Principe! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB7sKmuZMro]Sangazuza - Aflicon - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWbfseMyQl0]Africa Negra - Bó lêgá caçó modebó - YouTube[/ame] Here's some history: It was Leonal Aguiar from the band Os Intues who start innovated the music of São Tomé by adding American, Argentinian, Congolese and Cuban musical influences, and also introduced the electric guitar along with others. Bands such as Quibanzas and Africa Negra start to follow suite.
Early 80's Cavacha from Zaire (DRC)! Damn...what a mindblowing sebene that puts you on your feet, listen to that fantastic guitar interplay with solo guitarist Mbuta Matima (RIP) and rhythm guitarist Zamuangana! Bass is by Oncle Bapius and drums Meridjo! I will post more history on Zaiko, the Cavacha genre and the 70's! I think you will definitely love Congolese Music after all, it's not popular for no reason. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwFGz7I6fy4]Zaiko langa langa(Ya Lengos)- Souvenir Massa - YouTube[/ame] Congolese Rhumba from the Early 90's! This is the sebene part where the mainly the instruments take over and the animateur (person who yells out calls to direct the dancers and phrases into sync with the melody) On Lead Guitar, the great virtuso Beniko Popolipo! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhTGdHKeUBo]Getty sebene - Zaiko Langa Langa ( L'evolution de J.P Buse ) - YouTube[/ame]
When you say Congolese music do you mean soukous specifically? Is soukous your favorite African music? Early 80's Cavacha from Zaire (DRC)! Damn...what a mindblowing sebene that puts you on your feet, listen to that fantastic guitar interplay with solo guitarist Mbuta Matima (RIP) and rhythm guitarist Zamuangana! Bass is by Oncle Bapius and drums Meridjo! I will post more history on Zaiko, the Cavacha genre and the 70's! I think you will definitely love Congolese Music after all, it's not popular for no reason. Congolese Rhumba from the Early 90's! This is the sebene part where the mainly the instruments take over and the animateur (person who yells out calls to direct the dancers and phrases into sync with the melody) On Lead Guitar, the great virtuso Beniko Popolipo!
Nah Congolese Music is versatile. You have Soukous, Rhumba, Rhumba Odemba (popularized from Franco), Ndombolo, Zebola. They're much of a tremendous influence on the music of other countries which leads to success and even brilliant recordings! Even Africans themselves will give such praise and claim to their productivity. There has been many viewpoints and opinions how Soukous became created but I'm about to give you the real history. It was during the time of Prince Nico's Sweet Mother that was hitting airwaves that became a hit which was the combination of West African Highlife and Congolese style guitars that created success! Later to counter that challenge, Sam Mangwana along with Lokassa Ya M'Bongo, Ringo Moya, Dizzy Mandjeku decided to create a new band called the African All Stars in Ivory, Coast, West Africa. What they did is speeded up the rumba and de-emphasized lingala lyrics in place of French and English to make their music more "panafrican". Later on in the early 80's, musicians started to flock over to Paris, France where it became known as the "capital of African Music" from that time, westerns from the UK, US and from other places became to market and it became one of top world genres in the 90's. I listen to other genres of the motherland continent but the sebene is just so damn enjoyable!
I've heard a variety of Congolese music styles but I wasn't sure you preferred soukous. I really like the rumba and soukous I've heard and I think I've heard some different Congolese stuff. One of the biggest "capitals of African music" that comes to my mind is Lagos -- or Nigeria anyway. Some of the Nigerian stuff (highlife, afrobeat) is some of my favorite.
Yes Lagos! A lot of musicians especially from Congo have recorded in Nigeria during the big oil boom in the Late 70's/Early 80's and also don't forget Abidjan, Ivory Coast and Lome, Togo. Those cities are the other centers cause of quality music studios that produces crystal clear recordings but when I mean Paris is the capital of African Music, there's a numerous population of the Mande(Mandingo ethnicity) of Mali, Liberia, Guinea and the rest of the francophone African countries. Let me get you started on the "new generation" of Nigerian Highlife, when they adding Congolese style guitars which made the sound even better! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_MnLaaWc3w]Prince nico mbarga - Aki special (AUDIO) - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gptkUOj1kA]Prince Nico Mbarga ~ "Simplicity" - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89HLngoH-TI]Jacob Nguni & Wazza Collection - Nigeria 79 - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLz9eOIyQlA]Oliver de Coque & Expo'76 - Baby don't cry - YouTube[/ame]
Damn this is addicting! Awesome, well composed masterpiece from the Soukous Stars! You have King Dally Kimoko on Lead Guitar (his rock mode is fantastic!) Lokassa Ya M'Bongo on Rhythm Guitar! (he plays a mi-compose tuning on rhythm guitar) and Ngouma Lokito on Bass! (They call him the professor because of his thunder basslines!) Arsene Kounde on Drums! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioz7yMiB3Xs]Soukous Stars - Pur Soukous - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNq-3jhyvrs]Ballaké joue sur une kora Kaëlig - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7yscUCZMBI]ballaké sissoko & toumani diabate-salaman - YouTube[/ame]
Yes Lagos! A lot of musicians especially from Congo have recorded in Nigeria during the big oil boom in the Late 70's/Early 80's and also don't forget Abidjan, Ivory Coast and Lome, Togo. Those cities are the other centers cause of quality music studios that produces crystal clear recordings but when I mean Paris is the capital of African Music, there's a numerous population of the Mande(Mandingo ethnicity) of Mali, Liberia, Guinea and the rest of the francophone African countries. Let me get you started on the "new generation" of Nigerian Highlife, when they adding Congolese style guitars which made the sound even better! Damn this is addicting! Awesome, well composed masterpiece from the Soukous Stars! You have King Dally Kimoko on Lead Guitar (his rock mode is fantastic!) Lokassa Ya M'Bongo on Rhythm Guitar! (he plays a mi-compose tuning on rhythm guitar) and Ngouma Lokito on Bass! (They call him the professor because of his thunder basslines!) Arsene Kounde on Drums! Beninese vodun sounds