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February 7, 2009

Le Seigneur Rochereau et l’African Fiesta National, african 1969

Rochereau, front

After having recorded already some 400 titles, Rochereau started
African Fiesta mid sixties with guitarist Dr. Nico. I am not sure
if Dr. Nico is still playing on this album because they split up
after two years. The album’s cover doesn’t give much information.
If someone knows, please let us know. It’s an LP released specially
for Christmas and New Year 1969-1970. Pascal Tabu Rochereau later
took the name ‘Tabu Ley’ and is still one of my all time favourite
Congolese singers.

tracks;

1 Ki-makango mpe libala
2 Libala ya maloba
3 Nganga ya maza
4 Mutambula
5 Bonane na Noël
6 Mosolo
7 Basi basalaka
8 Zuwa ya bosenzi

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5 Comments

  1. Anonymous 7 February 2009 at 19:37 - Reply

    great i love this!
    wuodk

  2. martin 8 February 2009 at 13:32 - Reply

    hello Moos,
    it seems you have aheard my special prayer for more Franco i. e. congo-rumba.what i know about this wonderful Rochereau-LP is, that Dr. Nico split in mid 1966 and founded his African Fiesta Sukisa.
    From there on there was a lot of trouble around the old African Fiesta (now African Fiesta National)that ended on new year´s eve 1967, when AFN was too late performing on Mobutu´s gala. They were suspended from all activities for a long long 3 months. So nearly all important members including Mangwana left the group to found `Festival Des Maquisards. Hard Competition!!!
    So Rochereau founded a new group around some old members.
    I guess on this LP the lead-guitarist is `Pierre Mbumba´ who came from `African Kings´ and the devil shall kill me, if that is not the young `Lokassa Ya Mbongo´ who plays like the fantastic `Dechaud´ using the mi-guitar just like him, producing that fantastic flowing sound like the Congo-river!!!
    I hope i could help you, like you help me every new day!
    thanks Martin

  3. martin 8 February 2009 at 13:32 - Reply

    hello Moos,
    it seems you have aheard my special prayer for more Franco i. e. congo-rumba.what i know about this wonderful Rochereau-LP is, that Dr. Nico split in mid 1966 and founded his African Fiesta Sukisa.
    From there on there was a lot of trouble around the old African Fiesta (now African Fiesta National)that ended on new year´s eve 1967, when AFN was too late performing on Mobutu´s gala. They were suspended from all activities for a long long 3 months. So nearly all important members including Mangwana left the group to found `Festival Des Maquisards. Hard Competition!!!
    So Rochereau founded a new group around some old members.
    I guess on this LP the lead-guitarist is `Pierre Mbumba´ who came from `African Kings´ and the devil shall kill me, if that is not the young `Lokassa Ya Mbongo´ who plays like the fantastic `Dechaud´ using the mi-guitar just like him, producing that fantastic flowing sound like the Congo-river!!!
    I hope i could help you, like you help me every new day!
    thanks Martin

  4. moos 8 February 2009 at 14:20 - Reply

    Thanks a million Martin, great info, you’re the best.

  5. moos 8 February 2009 at 14:20 - Reply

    Thanks a million Martin, great info, you’re the best.

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