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Descripción:The African Dance Troupe
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Descripción:Enjoy Danny doing his thing
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Descripción:These girls from Togo in West Africa doing the Soukous Dancing. wat a bunch of exy dancers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Descripción:Soukous flensjes attack
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Descripción:FOR MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS JOIN THE YOUTUBE GROUP NAMED "AFRICAN MUSIC AND DANCE VIDEOS!"
http://youtube.com/soukous
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On this recording, Jonal sings (he sang with O.K. Jazz shortly before and after the death of Franco). Shiko Mawatu on guitar. Shiko told me the other night that his first professional guitar playing job was touring with...DOCTOR NICO! Wow!!
This video: In Kenya this song is known as "Sina Makossa." According to sources at Africambiance.org this tune was originally recorded by a Kenyan/Tanzanian group called Les Wanyika -- it can be purchased on a CD called 'Kenya Dance Mania', which has some other great East African music on it. Lokassa ya Mbongo does a nice job playing Professor Omari's original rhythm riffs from that recording, while lead guitarist Shiko Mawatu follows the lead of Les Wanyika guitarist Ngereza's original but brings a lot more skill to the playing. Listen to Shiko to hear what Ngereza really wanted to do.
You can follow discussions like this among the savants at africambiance.org. I'm grateful to "antony" and "adoyo" there for their insights on SINA MAKOSSA.
Duración:14:34 Vistos:54403 veces
Descripción:The highpoint of the Soukous Stars show Friday night in Newark was the dancer-by-dancer introductions that Machine Katalayi does. This 14-minute video will have you riveted to the screen. You can watch this clip 10 times and see something new and different in it every time.
The crowd went wild over the dancers. Was it Mambo's coquettish appeal? Was it Maria's HEAD STAND WHILE DANCING? (really!!) -- well whatever it was the crowd loved it SO MUCH the authorities (Euloge and Nono, both honorably protective of the girls) had to step in and fight back the revelers!! Don't miss this 14-minute video -- the last 14-minutes of the show.
Duración:16:35 Vistos:83719 veces
Descripción:FUN
Duración:11:25 Vistos:28336 veces
Descripción:Samassa has a "new" neighbor! At the Soukous Stars concert the other night I was excitedly informed (by I-don't-remember-who) that a "new" African music store had opened even nearer to my home than the one at 30th and Broadway (Samassa). This "new" one is at 32nd and Broadway (I live at 35th)...AND it was said to have lots more Congolese music than Samassa.
It's at 1265 Broadway, on the 6th floor, and the owner is a Congolese fellow named Jean-Barthe. I went over to have a look today and WOW: It's true: The shop is a towering, high-ceilinged room with Congolese hits right up to the ceiling. It's incredible!!
But apparently not so "new." Jean-Barthe told me tonight it's been open for two years. But he admitted that a lot of people still don't know about the place yet.
See it all for yourself on this documentary video of my trip to Jean-Barthe's African music store...! The shop is just two blocks from Macy's in the sparkling heart of midtown Manhattan, so I could not resist offering a few street scenes of my neighborhood before the music store visit begins...
If you like something you see on the video, call Jean-Barthe at
+1 646 935 1975...
or order online (!!!) at
http://www.jbmactions.com
The address is
African Movies & Music
1265 Broadway
#600
New York, NY 10001
Not pictured on the video:
Bella-Bella...Tabu Ley...Pierre Moutouari et Michaelle...Pepe Ndombe...some post-Franco T.P. OK Jazz...Madilu...Josky Kiambukuta...Dino Vangu...Mbilia Bel...a huge selection of African gospel music and a vast number of Congolese theatrical films - ! ("comedies")...and more...
People have asked me why I am showing so much attention to this shop and never mentioning Samassa Records, the veteran of the neighborhood, just two blocks away. The answer is: MY BAD! I just discovered this "new" shop and went crazy. Samassa Records is also great: You should definitely visit BOTH whenever you are in the neighborhood. Indeed, it would be ridiculous to travel to midtown to shop for African music and visit only one of these and not the other. Samassa told me he has been in business at his nearby location for many years (like, 8, I think!). Here's his info:
Samassa Records
1225 Broadway Ste 319
New York, NY 10001-4309
(212) 725-3741
Samassa is just south of 30th street. Sometimes there is a long line for the elevator so enjoy the full experience: Take the stairs. Also in the same hallway with Samassa: An African bodies-specialist jeans shop. This may be the hottest office hallway in New York, or perhaps, the world!
Duración:06:07 Vistos:24134 veces
Descripción:Dance soukous with some flavor of fine African women, shaking and wiggling the thang
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Descripción:dvd Scandale
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Descripción:Lokassa Ya Mbongo and the Soukous Stars Dancers: It doesn't get any better than this; An 8-minute experience of the Soukous Stars at the Liberty Sports Club in Newark. It's a long solo by Lokassa Ya Mbongo. It's so long that bass player Ngouma Lokito and lead guitarist Shiko Mawatu actually GIVE UP, PUT DOWN THEIR INSTRUMENTS AND LEAVE THE STAGE!! The dancers are (left-to-right) Mambo, Adiya, Jessica (new tonight!), and Maria. There are a few close-ups of Lokassa playing his famous fingerstyle rhythm
Duración:09:42 Vistos:53951 veces
Descripción:VINTAGE SOUKOUS! Malage de Lugendo's most famous song, performed in Newark with Soukous Stars, February 4th, 2006. Malage has an amazing vocal range -- it's demonstrated at the tail end of the song when he is singing in a high register, and then reverts to his usual voice to say "thank you" to the crowd...what a voice... (sorry about the jump in the middle -- videotape cassette change caused me to miss about 10-seconds of Shiko's solo guitar...shucks...)
Duración:11:36 Vistos:32450 veces
Descripción:FUN
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Descripción:Kanda opens the show, Malage sings, Lokassa solo, Cleopatra dances, Ngouma Lokito on bass, Shiko Mawatu sets the spirit on lead. What a night as soukous enjoys an enormous success, completely PACKING S.O.B.'s in Manhattan's Greenwich Village!
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Descripción:Choc a Distance. RIP Jean Baron who died 2005
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Descripción:SOUKOUS BY POPULAR DEMAND IN THE US
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Descripción:a small clip of his song Mimi Na Ngai and the ending presentation of his video De Particulier a Particulier
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Descripción:A demonstration of the two main lead parts in the "Les Wanyika" version of
Sina Makosa
See the band play it at
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qnXslttpPPs
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Descripción:Last portion of Wapi Yo
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Descripción:SOUKOUS BY POPULAR DEMAND IN THE US
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