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 The Kinshasa - Abidjan Rumba Sessions
Abidjan Sessions - Studio JBZ
Antoine Moundanda & Likembé Géant (mars 1997) :
"The veteran Antoine Moundanda's songs hark back a few decades in the porocess of evolution. Here are the riffing guitar patterns of Congo/Zaïre pop, only his trio plays them on the Likembé or thumb piano. The sound, with a touch of studio production, is basically acoustic. To contemporary ears, it's like hearing rural blues when used to the electric Chocago version - another world, the same meaning".
- BBC Music Magazine, June 1998
"Treated by Moundanda and his two cohorts fingers Likembé gains unique melodic fluidity and rhythmic agility. This is purely acoustic music, harcking back to the earliest period of Congolese music, before the advent of large, electric guitar-driven bands, yet retaining all the excitement that musicians from this area are known for".
- Jazzwise, November 1998
Wendo Kolosoy & Victoria Bakolo Miziki (mars 1999):
"This set, recently recorded in Abidjan, loingly recreates the glory days of Kinshasa - sensuous, easy-rolling rumba, a dreamy, swirling world of comfort and pleasure. (...) Though Wendo's lived-in voice is obviously not that of a young man, it's still pretty potent, veering between animation and yodelling".
- Folk Roots, November 1999
"A superstar in the Fifties, Congolese singersongwriter Papa Wendo sank into oblivion after his homland's independance from Belgium. On his first European tour at 75, he's back in the limelightq".
- The Bulletin, November 1999
Kinshasa Sessions - Studio M'eko (mars-février 2002)
Wendo Kolosoy & Victoria Bakolo Miziki :
"An irresistibly swinging rumba rythms and impassioned vocals album from this congolese veteran" - Songlines
"A great contribution to the resurrection of classic rumba" - fROOTS
"Aux racines de la plus puissante musique de danse d'Afrique noire,
la radieuse santé d'un créateur unique." - Bertrand Dicale, Le Monde de la Musique – juillet 2002
"(…) doit impérativement figurer dans toute discothèque
de l'amateur de musique africaine." - Elisabeth Stoudmann, VIBRATIONS
Wendo Kolosoy & Rumbanella Band :
"C'est un Buena Vista Social Club… du Congo.
Qualité, nostalgie, émotion à fleur de peau : tous les ingrédients pour faire entrer ce disque dans la légende." – Le journal du Dimanche
Une sélection de grands succès du passé flamboyant de Kinshasa et de Brazzaville, enregistré en 2002 par quelques glorieux aînés et leurs déférents cadets." – Le Monde de la Musique
"A selection of tracks by Rumba Kings, Wendo Kolosoy and Antoine Moundanda (…) pay tribute to the gentle sexy dance music popular in the central Africa region in the days before liberation" - The Birmingham post
"Giants of Congolese Rumba" - Financial times magazine
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