Monday, February 22, 2016

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!

You may download to listen here:
https://www.hightail.com/download/ZWJXak95SWVuSlNGa2RVag
You may listen or download here:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Ambiance+Congo

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


Wednesday, February 10, 2016

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:
https://www.hightail.com/download/ZWJXNWN1dzhwTVVQWWNUQw
or archived here:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Ambiance+Congo

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