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OK Jazz – Tcha Tcha Tcha de Mi Amor
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ok-jazz-tcha-tcha-tcha-de-mi-amor/
This song “Tcha Tcha Tcha de Mi Amor” appears on Congo Revolution – Revolutionary and Evolutionary Sounds from the Two Congos 1955-62 – a compilation that explores the Congolese rumba explosion.
“A look at the explosion of music that came out of the Congo in the years leading up to independence in 1960. Congolese rumba, a […]
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OK Jazz – Tcha Tcha Tcha de Mi Amor
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ok-jazz-tcha-tcha-tcha-de-mi-amor/
This song “Tcha Tcha Tcha de Mi Amor” appears on Congo Revolution – Revolutionary and Evolutionary Sounds from the Two Congos 1955-62 – a compilation that explores the Congolese rumba explosion.
“A look at the explosion of music that came out of the Congo in the years leading up to independence in 1960. Congolese rumba, a […]
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OK Jazz – Tcha Tcha Tcha de Mi Amor
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ok-jazz-tcha-tcha-tcha-de-mi-amor/
This song “Tcha Tcha Tcha de Mi Amor” appears on Congo Revolution – Revolutionary and Evolutionary Sounds from the Two Congos 1955-62 – a compilation that explores the Congolese rumba explosion.
“A look at the explosion of music that came out of the Congo in the years leading up to independence in 1960. Congolese rumba, a […]
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OK Jazz – Tcha Tcha Tcha de Mi Amor
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ok-jazz-tcha-tcha-tcha-de-mi-amor/
This song “Tcha Tcha Tcha de Mi Amor” appears on Congo Revolution – Revolutionary and Evolutionary Sounds from the Two Congos 1955-62 – a compilation that explores the Congolese rumba explosion.
“A look at the explosion of music that came out of the Congo in the years leading up to independence in 1960. Congolese rumba, a […]
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Franco & l’OK Jazz – Mado (Infidélité)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-ok-jazz-mado/
“Mado” (Infidélité) is a classic from 1969, composed by bass player Céli Bitshou, sung by Franco, Youlou and Boyibanda.
Through the 1960s, Franco and O.K. Jazz toured regularly and recorded prolifically. By 1967, Franco was a co-leader of the band, with vocalist Vicky Longomba. When Vicky left in 1970, Franco became [...]
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Franco & l’OK Jazz – Mado (Infidélité)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-ok-jazz-mado/
“Mado” (Infidélité) is a classic from 1969, composed by bass player Céli Bitshou, sung by Franco, Youlou and Boyibanda.
Through the 1960s, Franco and O.K. Jazz toured regularly and recorded prolifically. By 1967, Franco was a co-leader of the band, with vocalist Vicky Longomba. When Vicky left in 1970, Franco became [...]
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Franco & l’OK Jazz – Mado (Infidélité)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-ok-jazz-mado/
“Mado” (Infidélité) is a classic from 1969, composed by bass player Céli Bitshou, sung by Franco, Youlou and Boyibanda.
Through the 1960s, Franco and O.K. Jazz toured regularly and recorded prolifically. By 1967, Franco was a co-leader of the band, with vocalist Vicky Longomba. When Vicky left in 1970, Franco became [...]
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Franco & l’OK Jazz – Mado (Infidélité)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-ok-jazz-mado/
“Mado” (Infidélité) is a classic from 1969, composed by bass player Céli Bitshou, sung by Franco, Youlou and Boyibanda.
Through the 1960s, Franco and O.K. Jazz toured regularly and recorded prolifically. By 1967, Franco was a co-leader of the band, with vocalist Vicky Longomba. When Vicky left in 1970, Franco became [...]
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Attention na Sida with Franco
https://amf.didiermary.fr/world-aids-day-attention-na-sida-franco/
World AIDS Day, la journée mondiale contre le SIDA, c’est le 1er décembre de chaque année. Le grand maitre Franco interpelle la société et s’insurge contre le sida avec Victoria Eleison en 1987.
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Attention na Sida with Franco
https://amf.didiermary.fr/world-aids-day-attention-na-sida-franco/
World AIDS Day, la journée mondiale contre le SIDA, c’est le 1er décembre de chaque année. Le grand maitre Franco interpelle la société et s’insurge contre le sida avec Victoria Eleison en 1987.
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Attention na Sida with Franco
https://amf.didiermary.fr/world-aids-day-attention-na-sida-franco/
World AIDS Day, la journée mondiale contre le SIDA, c’est le 1er décembre de chaque année. Le grand maitre Franco interpelle la société et s’insurge contre le sida avec Victoria Eleison en 1987.
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Attention na Sida with Franco
https://amf.didiermary.fr/world-aids-day-attention-na-sida-franco/
World AIDS Day, la journée mondiale contre le SIDA, c’est le 1er décembre de chaque année. Le grand maitre Franco interpelle la société et s’insurge contre le sida avec Victoria Eleison en 1987.
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Verckys – catalogue Éditions Vévé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/verckys-catalogue-editions-veve/
James Brown dubbed Verckys “Mister Dynamite” after seeing him perform in Kinshasa in 1974.
In 2015, Sterns Music released the most comprehensive digital reissue of Editions Vévé catalogue : 10 singles featuring their original covers, 15 albums with original covers and sequence, 6 compilation albums including rare tracks. In addition to being a talented [...]
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Verckys – catalogue Éditions Vévé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/verckys-catalogue-editions-veve/
James Brown dubbed Verckys “Mister Dynamite” after seeing him perform in Kinshasa in 1974.
In 2015, Sterns Music released the most comprehensive digital reissue of Editions Vévé catalogue : 10 singles featuring their original covers, 15 albums with original covers and sequence, 6 compilation albums including rare tracks. In addition to being a talented [...]
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Verckys – catalogue Éditions Vévé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/verckys-catalogue-editions-veve/
James Brown dubbed Verckys “Mister Dynamite” after seeing him perform in Kinshasa in 1974.
In 2015, Sterns Music released the most comprehensive digital reissue of Editions Vévé catalogue : 10 singles featuring their original covers, 15 albums with original covers and sequence, 6 compilation albums including rare tracks. In addition to being a talented [...]
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Verckys – catalogue Éditions Vévé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/verckys-catalogue-editions-veve/
James Brown dubbed Verckys “Mister Dynamite” after seeing him perform in Kinshasa in 1974.
In 2015, Sterns Music released the most comprehensive digital reissue of Editions Vévé catalogue : 10 singles featuring their original covers, 15 albums with original covers and sequence, 6 compilation albums including rare tracks. In addition to being a talented [...]
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Franco & OK Jazz – Course au pouvoir (1966)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-ok-jazz-course-au-pouvoir-1966/
La chanson “Course au pouvoir” (comme “Chicotte” également) est le reflet d’une époque où les artistes, orchestres et musiciens se lançaient dans des “revanches en musique.”
Ici, Franco répond à Kwamy Munsi, qui après avoir quitté OK Jazz, pour rejoindre African Fiesta, lui a adressé le titre “Faux millionnaire” accompagné de [...]
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Franco & OK Jazz – Course au pouvoir (1966)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-ok-jazz-course-au-pouvoir-1966/
La chanson “Course au pouvoir” (comme “Chicotte” également) est le reflet d’une époque où les artistes, orchestres et musiciens se lançaient dans des “revanches en musique.”
Ici, Franco répond à Kwamy Munsi, qui après avoir quitté OK Jazz, pour rejoindre African Fiesta, lui a adressé le titre “Faux millionnaire” accompagné de [...]
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Franco & OK Jazz – Course au pouvoir (1966)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-ok-jazz-course-au-pouvoir-1966/
La chanson “Course au pouvoir” (comme “Chicotte” également) est le reflet d’une époque où les artistes, orchestres et musiciens se lançaient dans des “revanches en musique.”
Ici, Franco répond à Kwamy Munsi, qui après avoir quitté OK Jazz, pour rejoindre African Fiesta, lui a adressé le titre “Faux millionnaire” accompagné de [...]
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Franco & OK Jazz – Course au pouvoir (1966)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-ok-jazz-course-au-pouvoir-1966/
La chanson “Course au pouvoir” (comme “Chicotte” également) est le reflet d’une époque où les artistes, orchestres et musiciens se lançaient dans des “revanches en musique.”
Ici, Franco répond à Kwamy Munsi, qui après avoir quitté OK Jazz, pour rejoindre African Fiesta, lui a adressé le titre “Faux millionnaire” accompagné de [...]
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Zaïre 74 – the African Artists
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zaire-74-african-artists/
A côté des stars américaines qui ont fait le show à Zaire 74, il y avait aussi de nombreux groupes et artistes africains, dont congolais pour ce grand festival, aussi connu sous le nom “Soul Power” d’après le documentaire diffusé en 2009.
“Ali, boma ye” (en français : “Ali, tue le”)
Pour mémoire, ce grand festival […]
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Zaïre 74 – the African Artists
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zaire-74-african-artists/
A côté des stars américaines qui ont fait le show à Zaire 74, il y avait aussi de nombreux groupes et artistes africains, dont congolais pour ce grand festival, aussi connu sous le nom “Soul Power” d’après le documentaire diffusé en 2009.
“Ali, boma ye” (en français : “Ali, tue le”)
Pour mémoire, ce grand festival […]
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Zaïre 74 – the African Artists
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zaire-74-african-artists/
A côté des stars américaines qui ont fait le show à Zaire 74, il y avait aussi de nombreux groupes et artistes africains, dont congolais pour ce grand festival, aussi connu sous le nom “Soul Power” d’après le documentaire diffusé en 2009.
“Ali, boma ye” (en français : “Ali, tue le”)
Pour mémoire, ce grand festival […]
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Franco, King of Rumba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-king-of-rumba/
François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi (6 July 1938 – 12 October 1989) was a Congolese singer, guitarist, songwriter, bandleader, and cultural revolutionary, the King of Rumba.
#Compilation #Congo #Documentary #FrancoLuambo #OldAfricanMusic
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Franco, King of Rumba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-king-of-rumba/
François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi (6 July 1938 – 12 October 1989) was a Congolese singer, guitarist, songwriter, bandleader, and cultural revolutionary, the King of Rumba.
#Compilation #Congo #Documentary #FrancoLuambo #OldAfricanMusic
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Franco, King of Rumba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-king-of-rumba/
François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi (6 July 1938 – 12 October 1989) was a Congolese singer, guitarist, songwriter, bandleader, and cultural revolutionary, the King of Rumba.
#Compilation #Congo #Documentary #FrancoLuambo #OldAfricanMusic
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Franco, King of Rumba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-king-of-rumba/
François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi (6 July 1938 – 12 October 1989) was a Congolese singer, guitarist, songwriter, bandleader, and cultural revolutionary, the King of Rumba.
#Compilation #Congo #Documentary #FrancoLuambo #OldAfricanMusic
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Verckys – catalogue Éditions Vévé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/verckys-catalogue-editions-veve/
James Brown dubbed Verckys “Mister Dynamite” after seeing him perform in Kinshasa in 1974.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdGaXbQEUw8&feature=share
In 2015, Sterns Music released the most comprehensive digital reissue of Editions Vévé catalogue : 10 singles featuring their original covers, 15 albums with original covers and sequence, 6 compilation albums including rare tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kitcn-KMM5s
In addition to being a talented instrumentalist, composer and arranger, Verckys was a showman whose dance moves and stage antics won him avid fans of his own. So self-confident was he that in 1968 he started a record company, Éditions Vévé, and persuaded Youlou Mabiala and several other members of OK Jazz to record for him in breach of their contracts with Franco. When Franco found out about it he fired the lot but then relented in consideration of 40% of the new company’s earnings. This episode convinced Verckys that he no longer needed Franco; he left OK Jazz to form Orchestre Vévé.
More infoCongo’s turbulent and exhilarating ’70s: Nightclubs and dance floors were packed to the brim in the capital, Kinshasa. Exuberant crowds, still giddy from independence a decade prior, grooved to the sounds of the country’s classics. In fact the whole continent was submerged into the Congolese Rumba craze. Encouraged by the fantastic productions of the Ngoma label, vibrant radio waves had been spreading the Congo sound from Leopoldville all over the continent, becoming the countries’ No.1 export. The unexpected success nurtured an incredible wealth of talented musicians. One of them was Verckys, who, at age 18, became a member of the country´s most dominant and influential band; Franco’s OK Jazz.
This “relationship” however was short-lived as Verckys, aka Georges Mateta Kiamuangana, now a versatile and potent multi instrumentalist, had plans of his own – the formation of Orchestre Vévé in 1968, with the aim of reinventing and modernising the Congolese sound. Blending the ever influential prowess of James Brown with Congolese Merengue, Rumba and Soukous, Verckys stripped away the conventional approach that O.K. Jazz had pioneered, allowing his saxophone-laced melodies to dominate.
Around 1970 a new important area began with the foundation of the label “les Editions Vévé” on which Verckys would release his own productions. A studio was built and Verckys started recording young urban artists, with guitar-driven Cavacha sounds; Les Freres Soki, Bella Bella, Orchestre Kiam and many more shot to stardom overnight, making Verckys a very wealthy man.
But that wasn’t enough for an ambitious man with a vision. He built a sprawling entertainment complex called Vévé Centre, and dispatched a team to learn the intricacies of record pressing to set up the first pressing plant in the country. This was followed by the construction of the Congo’s most modern recording studio in Kinshasa, in which he recorded the legendary Tabu Ley Rochereau.
Orchestre Vévé’s popularity poured across borders and in 1974 the band travelled to Kenya for a 2 month tour. “Bassala Hot”, “Cheka Sana” and “Talali Talala” were some of the tracks recorded in Nairobi for the Kenyan market.
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Verckys – catalogue Éditions Vévé
https://amf.didiermary.fr/verckys-catalogue-editions-veve/
James Brown dubbed Verckys “Mister Dynamite” after seeing him perform in Kinshasa in 1974.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdGaXbQEUw8&feature=share
In 2015, Sterns Music released the most comprehensive digital reissue of Editions Vévé catalogue : 10 singles featuring their original covers, 15 albums with original covers and sequence, 6 compilation albums including rare tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kitcn-KMM5s
In addition to being a talented instrumentalist, composer and arranger, Verckys was a showman whose dance moves and stage antics won him avid fans of his own. So self-confident was he that in 1968 he started a record company, Éditions Vévé, and persuaded Youlou Mabiala and several other members of OK Jazz to record for him in breach of their contracts with Franco. When Franco found out about it he fired the lot but then relented in consideration of 40% of the new company’s earnings. This episode convinced Verckys that he no longer needed Franco; he left OK Jazz to form Orchestre Vévé.
More infoCongo’s turbulent and exhilarating ’70s: Nightclubs and dance floors were packed to the brim in the capital, Kinshasa. Exuberant crowds, still giddy from independence a decade prior, grooved to the sounds of the country’s classics. In fact the whole continent was submerged into the Congolese Rumba craze. Encouraged by the fantastic productions of the Ngoma label, vibrant radio waves had been spreading the Congo sound from Leopoldville all over the continent, becoming the countries’ No.1 export. The unexpected success nurtured an incredible wealth of talented musicians. One of them was Verckys, who, at age 18, became a member of the country´s most dominant and influential band; Franco’s OK Jazz.
This “relationship” however was short-lived as Verckys, aka Georges Mateta Kiamuangana, now a versatile and potent multi instrumentalist, had plans of his own – the formation of Orchestre Vévé in 1968, with the aim of reinventing and modernising the Congolese sound. Blending the ever influential prowess of James Brown with Congolese Merengue, Rumba and Soukous, Verckys stripped away the conventional approach that O.K. Jazz had pioneered, allowing his saxophone-laced melodies to dominate.
Around 1970 a new important area began with the foundation of the label “les Editions Vévé” on which Verckys would release his own productions. A studio was built and Verckys started recording young urban artists, with guitar-driven Cavacha sounds; Les Freres Soki, Bella Bella, Orchestre Kiam and many more shot to stardom overnight, making Verckys a very wealthy man.
But that wasn’t enough for an ambitious man with a vision. He built a sprawling entertainment complex called Vévé Centre, and dispatched a team to learn the intricacies of record pressing to set up the first pressing plant in the country. This was followed by the construction of the Congo’s most modern recording studio in Kinshasa, in which he recorded the legendary Tabu Ley Rochereau.
Orchestre Vévé’s popularity poured across borders and in 1974 the band travelled to Kenya for a 2 month tour. “Bassala Hot”, “Cheka Sana” and “Talali Talala” were some of the tracks recorded in Nairobi for the Kenyan market.
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Franco & l’OK Jazz – Mado (Infidélité)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/franco-ok-jazz-mado/
“Mado” (Infidélité) is a classic from 1969, composed by bass player Céli Bitshou, sung by Franco, Youlou and Boyibanda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF-Er3l9ix4
Through the 1960s, Franco and O.K. Jazz toured regularly and recorded prolifically. By 1967, Franco was a co-leader of the band, with vocalist Vicky Longomba. When Vicky left in 1970, Franco became the sole leader of the band.
The song in this video comes from the “Francophonic: A Retrospective Vol. 1 1953-1980” compilation, a double-CD released in 2008.
An essential release, whether you know Franco‘s music or not, or even whether you know African music or not.
—Pitchfork
