20ème Anniversaire - Franco & le T.P. O.K. Jazz 1976 - Video
PUBLISHED:  Jan 28, 2011
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00:00 Liberté (Franco) vocals: Josky Kiambukuta, Wuta Mayi, Lola Chécain, Franco

09:35 Matata Ya Muasi Na Mobali Ekoki Kosila Te (Franco) vocals: Josky Kiambukuta, Michèl Boyibanda, Wuta Mayi, Franco, also with the voices of Lutumba Simaro prominently in the spoken intro and Mpudi Decca (briefly at 9:59)

18:34 Mélou (Wuta Mayi) vocals: Ndombe Opetum, Josky Kiambukuta, Wuta Mayi

25:28 Voyage Na Bandundu (Ndombe Opetum)

33:28 Kamikaze (Youlou Mabiala) vocals: Ndombe Opetum, Michèl Boyibanda, Wuta Mayi, Youlou Mabiala

41:10 Nzete Esololaka Na Moto Te (Michèl Boyibanda) vocals: Ndombe Opetum, Josky Kiambukuta, Michèl Boyibanda

49:01 Baninga Tokola Balingaka Ngai Te (Lola Chécain) vocals: Michèl Boyibanda, Ndombe Opetum, Lola Chécain

55:58 Yo Seli-Ja (Josky Kiambukuta) vocals: Ndombe Opetum, Josky Kiambukuta, Wuta Mayi

1:04:51 Salima (Michelino) vocals: Ndombe Opetum, Wuta Mayi, Josky Kiambukuta

1:14:04 Tosambi Bapeji Yo Raison Na Quartier (Franco) vocals: Josky Kiambukuta, Wuta Mayi, Lola Chécain

1:22:55 Bokolo Bana Ya Mbanda Na Yo Malamu (Franco) vocals: Michèl Boyibanda, Josky Kiambukuta, Wuta Mayi, Franco

These songs may have been recorded in 1976 but the vast majority really belongs to/was conceived (and televised) in 1975.

Core musicians: Franco: solo guitar, Michelino mi-solo guitar, Lutumba Simaro rhythm guitar (perhaps replaced by Gégé Mangaya on some tunes, shown on some pictures on bass guitar, however), Mpudi Decca on bass guitar (listen to the liberties he takes in the first song!!), Ntoya on drumkit (playing hi-hat most of the time), Bosuma Dessoin on percussion, otherwise DuPoole.

In this period, Franco was really searching for his place in the (new) three guitar (four, counting the bass) set up. It is interesting to note that Franco plays solo guitar on several of these tunes and Michelino mi-solo (very deep in the mix, whereas Franco is very much up front in the mix) but that the roles had been reversed between these recordings and the televised versions from late 1975. So the roles, and especially Franco's role, are/is not as settled as they/it would become later on.

Songs where he played mi-solo first and later on these recorded versions had moved to solo are for instance Salima

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU-i8SvLJwY

Bisalela http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9kXorogfxI

studio version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Og_aqxgXqM

In both live versions Franco does wonderful things in a mi-solo role that he could not do in a solo role in the studio versions. Another song that came out stronger live was Nzete Esololaka Na Moto Te:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMSwSjHbUEM

also because Ndombe gave the first solo to Josky and shared the last one with Josky. Right before the first solo: watch Ndombe's manual gesture to Josky, asking: you or I? Then we hear Josky singing and from the look on Michelino's face, it might have taken him by surprise, too. On the record, Ndombe took the first, second and fourth solos.

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