1 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:16,000 10 days of concerts, meetings, workshops dedicated to electronic music in Congo 2 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Les Siestes Electroniques, what does that means? We don't understand ... to rest after having an "electronic" meal ?! 3 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Les Siestes Electroniques is actually a French festival that has started 10 years ago. 4 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:04,000 When IDM was all over the place, we've had to rethink the way we're organizing concerts. 5 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Watching a guy using his laptop, alone on stage... well it's kind of boring! 6 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 So we've tried to present this kind of musicians in different conditions. 7 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:22,000 What if those music would be played in an open air venue, at the sunset ? 8 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Wouldn't be easier and way more fun to listen to it ? 9 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,000 We've then explore more aesthetics, using the same "recipe", 10 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:42,000 presenting new music to new audience at parking lots, subway stations, churches ... 11 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:48,000 And at the French cultural center, you'll understand that electronic music can be plural 12 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,000 It can be as hot as Coupé-Décalé played in the most sexy club late at night, 13 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:59,000 but it can also be very soft, gentle, calm! 14 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Thanks you guys, we wish you good luck! 15 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 We're speaking with Guillaume Kidula, Douster and Jay Weed. 16 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Meet them tomorrow at the French cultural center! 17 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:28,000 The musician, alone, in front of his laptop screen, moving his mouse... 18 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:36,000 it's kind of oldshool! we're now trying to find more intuitive way to do electronic music. 19 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:47,000 The gesture is now something that really counts for instance. 20 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:54,000 We think that with new tools comes new possibilities. 21 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Our goal is thus to provide new tools and see what you'll do with them. 22 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:10,000 We're not here to say : "hey, electronic is cool, you should try" 23 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:17,000 We're here like :"we're making that music with those tools, what would you do with them" 24 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 I'm a computer engineer from Toulouse. 25 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 I'm in Congo to organize music softwares trainings. 26 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:34,000 The aim is to present several music softwares and see how they could match the local needs, 27 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 and then develop new creative approaches. 28 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:47,000 I'm Hugo "Douster", I came from Lyon and I'm a dj and producer of electronic music for about 10 years. 29 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,000 I'm Jeremie, I came from Lyon and I'm a music producer under the moniker of "Jay Weed". 30 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 I was first making rap music, 31 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:06,000 and thanks to travelling - especially in South America, I've started to integrate different kind of music into my own mix. 32 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:12,000 I really enjoy all kind of music, coming from all over the world... 33 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:19,000 I'm then always interested by discovering new aestetics. 34 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,000 I think that electronic music had become more and more democratic, 35 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,000 because you can now do almost everything by yourself! 36 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Even a very low skilled musician can program some drum kit, a bass line and different kind of sounds. 37 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,000 The first edition of Les Siestes Electroniques in Congo, in 2010, 38 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:03,000 has made us realise that there is space for electronic music in Congo. 39 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:08,000 The Congolese are willing to discover new musics! 40 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,000 I'm especially interested by all the local underground subgenres of electronic music. 41 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Here, there, everywhere, people are making electronic music nowadays thanks to the advent of the personnal computer. 42 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Even if there is no pure electronic music in Congo such as house or techno, 43 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:36,000 there is Coupé-Décalé or Ndombolo which are typical African music styles made with computers. 44 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 It seems like we have a good team of local musicians around us! 45 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Pretty much motivated and open-minded... 46 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:49,000 I think we won't face absolutely no problem working with these guys! 47 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 But maybe I'm wrong, who knows ... 48 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Douster and JayWeed performs live at the Institut Francais du Congo. 49 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:15,000 When it started, you first ask yourself "wtf is this ?" 50 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 What we have here: only up-tempo music! 51 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Tempo is beautiful, alright. Tempo is made to dance. 52 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 But it's speechless! 53 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 It doesn't make any sense! How can you understand music then ? 54 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 What is the meaning of this music ? 55 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 What does it says? 56 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,000 You must speak, you must explain! 57 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 You must have a topic! 58 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Then people will understand! Then people will give a shout out! 59 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Here it's just "TUKU TUKU TUK TUKU TUKU TUK"! 60 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 According to me it's a MESS! ... 61 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Jean-Michel Jarre was playing melodies on his synthetizers, 62 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,000 but here it's way more percusive music... 63 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,000 and that's how it becomes universal! 64 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:12,000 We thus don't need to be introduced. Look at the crowd here, check tomorrow in the clubs... 65 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Everybody stand up and dance: 66 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Pure bliss, everybody's in trance! 67 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:28,000 I'm clearly unhappy! Everything they're playing is prerecorded! 68 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 They're actually not playing! 69 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,000 It's like if robots were playing for me! 70 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:42,000 True music need true musicians! 71 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Musicians playing their instruments and you can say: this one plays this, that one plays that... 72 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 People showed up to discover electronic music, 73 00:07:52,000 --> 00:08:01,000 and if there now get up it's because there is a message in this music! Something's happening! 74 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,000 There is a vibe, and that vibe makes the rythm. 75 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Music is not just only words, 76 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 music is what you're hearing! 77 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:21,000 What matters is the groove, the feeling, that will move you even if there are no words... 78 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:30,000 There was a communion of spirit. You've made a success. 79 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,000 We lack that kind of gigs here! I really enjoyed it tonight! 80 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Even if you aren't in the mood for dancing, you have to. Music is taking you. 81 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:47,000 You see, even if we're only discovering electronic music, people get that feeling of trance... 82 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,000 People were jumping around... "Hot ambiance!" as they say in the Antilles! 83 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:58,000 You'll definitly see a lot of "ambiance" with that music. It keep the tempo upbeat and there's no time to sleep. 84 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000 While we discover that music, we make it ours. 85 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 We make it ours, and it gives us ideas! 86 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:06,000 It gives us ideas... and that's the beauty of it! 87 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Do you have broadcast advertisment? Of course we do! 88 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Being a congolese Dj is kind of hard. We have to work with very few... 89 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:37,000 We try to deal with what we have and with that we manage the best part of it. 90 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Do you handle the aircon as well?Yes! 91 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 When i'm here, i don't play music for myself, i do it for the customers. 92 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 I have to play all kind of stuff as i play for all kinds of people 93 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 A DJ must try to know about all kinds of music. 94 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Every week end, i go around the clubs to see the Djs. 95 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:59,000 If there's a good track i haven't got already, i take it. 96 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Anyway, you go at friend's place and you have the Facebook, the internet, the Google and so on. 97 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,000 My music is the romantic Zouk. I really like the Zouk. 98 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 When i'm working the Zouk, i don't like to be disturb. 99 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:17,000 The R'nB. R'nB is where i can express myself totally, peacefully. 100 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 I see the girl dance, i'm in the show too... 101 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 So it's my favorite music, the R'n'B. 102 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 When i'm not here, there's no "ambiance" and it's the same when i feel weak. 103 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,000 That's why the people respects the DJs! 104 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 If you call a girl, she may not come. 105 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,000 But if I call a girl, she respects me, she'll come! 106 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:40,000 We aren't respected. People assume that we're weed's smokers, 107 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 or an illiterate, somebody that has no level... 108 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Trully, people thinks that we do that job for girls! 109 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Somehow it's true, but not only! 110 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Girls come by themselves, to hit on you, in front of people! 111 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 They're like "You know I'll love you, here's my phone number, call me!" 112 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,000 You get numbers of course, but our purpose is still the love of music. 113 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 It's our job, we were born to it, we live with it! 114 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Girls come by themselves, it's automatic! 115 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Even if you don't feel like it, they'll come anyway to bother you, so you got to deal with it! 116 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,000 I start to work at 14:00, from 14:00 to 21:00. 117 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 So as soon as people enter the room, I start mixing. 118 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 When there's nobody I put mixtapes and I wait around, 119 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,000 when people enter, i set the dancefloor on fire! 120 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 The "VIP" starts earlier. 121 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Let's say they start at 15:00 and close around midnight. 122 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Nightclubs are different as they start around 20:00, 123 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,000 and till 2:00 or 3:00 at night. 124 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Some people have that shedule: they start working around 7:30, and they finish at 14:00, 125 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:30,000 and every congolese like to have a bier before going home! 126 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 That's why we're opening around 14:00, to get that specific audience. 127 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,000 I won't play any scarry thing! 128 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Cause you do not scare your audience! 129 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:03,000 I'll scare them enough! 130 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Do you believe in Acid House's comeback? 131 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Yes, we'll import the "neo-colonialist Acid House" in Congo! 132 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,000 20 years later, is about the right time for acid house in Congo! 133 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Knowing that congolese may have problem to go around, as going around remains expensive, 134 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,000 we organised some kind of "tour" based on buses. 135 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,000 So we could bring a part of the audience from club to club. 136 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:37,000 It gave consistency to the party as well, as the audience could see Jay Weed and Douster's mix evolving through the night. 137 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Excursions are made by daylight! It's now nightime, wtf?! 138 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,000 It's as we were going to some warlock! 139 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,000 - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs!- It looks like a club ... 140 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 - Of course, we're in Vegas! 141 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,000 - Men, it's no Las Vegas, it's Brazza! 142 00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:04,000 I'm not sure that mixing electronic stuffs in some rock or pop club in France would work... 143 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,000 One chance out of two that people throw you tomatoes! 144 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:16,000 The idea was to face the reality of what is a Brazzaville's club, and to see if it could work somehow. 145 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:22,000 We've been in three different nightclubs, all really different from each other. 146 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:29,000 We started with "Le Plaisir", a kind of neighborhood club, with a much younger audience. 147 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,000 The ambiance was much more rough, with a funny Dj booth! 148 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:39,000 I loved the Dj booth there! 149 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Sick light installation! 150 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,000 When we arrived the resident dj was playing local music, audience was enjoying. 151 00:14:52,000 --> 00:15:02,000 We plugged in and Douster started playing Dancehall. 152 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:11,000 You have to know that Dancehall is not really well known in Congo. 153 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:20,000 In the Congelese clubs audience is used to listen to r'n'b, hip hop and coupé décalé, but clearly no dancehall... 154 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:29,000 So even this beginning was surprising for the Congolese crowd. 155 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Mirrors are everywhere in the clubs. That struck me. 156 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,000 And people are dancing in front of those mirrors! 157 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Everybody was in line, in front of the mirrors! 158 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:12,000 The best Congolese dancer came to the party! He's the father of the congolese Michael Jackson doppleganger as well! 159 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,000 And he has some crazy dance moves, believe me. 160 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:23,000 This guy has imported the Smurf dance in Congo! 161 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:40,000 "When music comes, rhythms diverge" 162 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:49,000 When Jeremie was playing, the "head" of the local djs guild had hosted the mix, 163 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:59,000 speaking about trance music and declaring some weird punchlines to the audience! 164 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:07,000 "The ambiance doesn't choose... you just have to live it" 165 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:21,000 "Tonight we have a special guest: the pleasure (play on words about the name of the club - le plaisir)" 166 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,000 There is a lot of white people tonight! 167 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,000 And I have had the feeling the white people were playing their white music ... 168 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:34,000 I come, i here reggae, your music, but it's not my style! 169 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Le plaisir is my club. I'm going regularly to Le Plaisir. 170 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:43,000 I've thought I could go to Le Plaisir after a hard week of work in order to relax... 171 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:48,000 But you're playing your music and I'm not interested... at all! 172 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,000 When we arrived at the second club, the atmosphere was different. 173 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:14,000 First af all the light show was all about strobe, which is apparently a very trendy way of lightning things here. 174 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,000 The mixing desk was about this height... 175 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,000 So you have to get on two beer crates... 176 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:27,000 which were quite unsteady... 177 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Me, Jeremie and a third guy taking care of lights: 3 people on 2 crates, it was little bit tight :) 178 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:47,000 It looks like everything is always thrown together at the last minute ... 179 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:55,000 When I was mixing, the light installation, with all the switchs on the wall you know, seems to have had a problem. 180 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,000 So a fourth guy came up to fix it... We were five behind the desk then! 181 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:04,000 The guy was pulling the electrical wires, making electrical sparkles at 20 cm of us! 182 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:10,000 And the night became more and more electronic as one goes along. 183 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:16,000 It became then more cutting edge, less casual for the Congolese crowd. 184 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:21,000 We've played UK Funky, then hard Techno and stuff like that... 185 00:19:45,000 --> 00:20:01,000 At some point Jeremie was playing hard UK Funky and some Congelese MCs came up on stage and starts toasting! 186 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,000 And it was pretty good, it fits! 187 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Some people even thought it was part of the original played tracks! 188 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:22,000 At the end Mad Michel, the boss of the Boyoma-Boyoma club, made us a surprise. 189 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,000 He asked to clear the dancefloor. Everybody stopped to dance. 190 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,000 And then cames 4 kids, 14-16 yo 191 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:37,000 They showed us some massive coupé décalé moves for about 25 mn, while the Dj was mixing super fast! 192 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:51,000 An ecstatic show! The strobes were flashing, the dance moves were extreme! 193 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,000 The atmosphere was definitively different compared to the European one... 194 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Way more hot. An extremely reactive audience. 195 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:10,000 People that came to the Dj booth really made my night! 196 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:15,000 As for the audience it was 50/50 I would say. 197 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Some people were quite curious, open to new sounds and jump into it, 198 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:27,000 but some others were more reluctant and sometimes quite unhappy about this "novelty". 199 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 But I hope altogether it has pleased most of them ... 200 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,000 At least we were quite happy about it :) 201 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Generally speaking, it worked! 202 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Of course we haven't been able to pleased everyone... 203 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Then we went to Le Groove club. 204 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 When we entered the club, it was packed! 205 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:55,000 And when Douster and Jay Weed started mixing, people were watching, listening, but not dancing. 206 00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:01,000 I've had the feeling the French djs didn't take care of the reaction of the crowd, 207 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:06,000 It looks like they were here to only satisfy themselves... 208 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:12,000 It was a little bit like they didn't care about what was there before they came! 209 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:17,000 So people started to leave the dancefloor... :) 210 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Some went out, for sure, because it was so much "European", too much for them... 211 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,000 It didn't bother me. I was there because I was willing to discover. 212 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:35,000 And when you're looking for something new, nothing can bother you! 213 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:48,000 At some point, a bartender came and asked: "More African music! My customers are about to leave! I loose money!" :) 214 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:54,000 The Congolese when they get to club, they wanna see their tables full of bottles! They spend a lot! 215 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 They buy a lot of drinks! 216 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:01,000 The Europeans, they only buy a bottle of beer from time to time ... 217 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Trully when we arrived at the last club, a little bit late, it may have been intrusive for the audience that was already there. 218 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:16,000 I didn't know how the resident djs of all the "VIPs" would welcome us... 219 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:26,000 You're a resident dj, you do your job and then come from nowhere young fellows that wanna play their music... 220 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Fact is we've been very warmly welcomed by all the resident djs! 221 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:39,000 One of the main problems here is they just can't download tracks. Internet is too slow here. 222 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,000 So it's hard to get new stuffs to play... 223 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:47,000 At the end in Le Groove club the local djs wanted to get all the sound we've played! 224 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:53,000 So we've filled up a hard drive, half drunk at 5 o'clock... Quite a funny moment. 225 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Inch Allah, one day, they will entertain their audience with all these weird "European" sounds they got that night! 226 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,000 My vision about Africa? It's a mess and i like it! 227 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,000 I've found quite happy folks here. 228 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:44,000 It feels good! Their open-mindedness is a blessing! 229 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:49,000 I must confess that I didn't knew much about Africa before coming here ... 230 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:58,000 but what I would remember is the kindness... and the smooth African way of life which suits me well! 231 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Congo isn't an easy country to understand... 232 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:19,000 We speak the same langage, so we think we understand each other... 233 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:25,000 but it's way more complex! 234 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Our cultures are different. Our visions of the world are different. 235 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:37,000 So even if we use the same words, the definition, the comprehension of it can be different. 236 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Some aspects of the Congolese culture are quite close from the French culture partly because of the colonization ... 237 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:53,000 but there is always a slight difference in meaning that can create trouble even in really simple things. 238 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,000 For example, when I set up a meeting at 9:00 239 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:02,000 most of the Congolese think they have until 9:59 to arrive ... which is true! 240 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Here you also have to get used to a "last minute" way to do everything... 241 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:13,000 Which would create much stress somewhere else but is just normal here! That's how things work here! 242 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:18,000 We've booked buses for the club night, for instance 243 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:23,000 I've had the firm confirmation only 3 days before the gig ... 244 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Unbelievable in France, absolutely normal here! :) 245 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,000 The money issue is also quite hard to deal with. 246 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,000 You're in a country where most of the people live with very few... 247 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000 But also in a country which has oil resources, 248 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,000 and fortunes are made on that material of course... 249 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Next to this you have people that live with really hard conditions, 250 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,000 with no water nor electricity, 251 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,000 which can create some "kafka-like" situation sometimes... 252 00:26:53,000 --> 00:27:01,000 The fact that there's almost no internet connexion or let's say no fast connexion is also a difficulty. 253 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:06,000 We're organizing an event in Congo from France, 254 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:17,000 But even being here, getting the flyer's artwork from France was some sort of complicate thing... 255 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:53,000 The congolese way to deal with the rain may be extreme: it just stops everything!.... 256 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:58,000 When it rains the taxi cabs and buses almost stop circulating, there are floods everywhere ... 257 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,000 Time stops when it rains! 258 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:08,000 So I was expecting 2 or 3 participants today, 259 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:16,000 15 trainees were there, behind their laptop, ready to work, already tweaking knobs! 260 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:21,000 That's a clear indicator of succes! 261 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Congo is always like that, like in a rollercoaster, you can be really disappointed or really amazed within the same day... 262 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Performance of all the Brazzaville's workshop participants. 263 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,000 Arrival in Pointe Noire. 264 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,000 It's hard to fall totally in love with Pointe Noire.. 265 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:40,000 The gap between the poor and the rich is too big. 266 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:48,000 We've been in the neighborhood, and where all the expats foreigners are living... 267 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000 It gives you a weird feeling... 268 00:29:50,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Here you have 1l of pure oil. You add this with coke and you can drive for 600 km :) 269 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:06,000 There are more foreigners... more money too... and loads of oil! 270 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,000 The Congolese oil is here! 271 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:21,000 So the relation with the local inhabitants is different, from what we saw in the clubs, at the hotel... 272 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:31,000 People are not as relax as in Brazza, they're seeing us, the white faces, as wealthy colonizers... 273 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,000 When you're going to club here, only the prostitutes speak to you for instance ... 274 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,000 Sunset DJ set at "L'escale d'Emex" 275 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:54,000 During at least an hour and a half, we thought: ok, it's dead, no one will come! 276 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:01,000 We could see people standing by their car, far away from the dance floor, waiting for something to happen... 277 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:06,000 We were far from our "sunset at the sea" fantasy! 278 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,000 Night and a huge shower rain felt at the same time... 279 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:15,000 Oddly enough people came at that very moment and started to dance their ass of! 280 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000 And from there... It was massive! 281 00:31:52,000 --> 00:32:05,000 We had great feedback from the people! But nobody gave us 5000F notes as in Brazzaville: our audience didn't look so rich actually! 282 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:15,000 But their unusual moves and choreography on the dancefloor were unmistakably a way to show their love! 283 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,000 The audience was some sort of weird "mash-up" as gathered at that moment the people that hanged around the beach, 284 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:30,000 the audience of inside the bar as it stayed open the whole time, broadcasting heavy coupé décalé, 285 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:35,000 pointe noire's expats and brazzaville's friends came as well... and finally kids! 286 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:43,000 Twenty of them came from a nearby youth club but above all we were join by all the street kids wanderer! 287 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:48,000 We ended up with a feeling that was much likely our french version of Les siestes: 288 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:56,000 a laid-back and easy going gathering, like a nice family meeting... It was a great moment! 289 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:15,000 In france we are all blasé, having that feeling that everything have been wrote, said, seen or done. 290 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:28,000 There's a refreshing feeling here in Congo, even if it's sometimes hard to introduce new things due to the weight of traditions. 291 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:35,000 Things are still possible here and new things are emerging. 292 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:45,000 I just hope that those congolese Siestes were not just about bringing something "cool" to the people... That we've been further. 293 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:57,000 As people and musicians we have collect a whole lot of positive thing: sounds, discussions, way to see life, music... 294 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:05,000 The sharing of all those ideas and sounds is a succes in itself for me, and it clearly moved me. 295 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:18,000 More than ever i think that the people from Brazzaville are welcoming and have this appetite for new things. 296 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:29,000 There are not so many roads here, it's hard to fly away, hard to use internet... 297 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,000 So sharing is crucial, talking is crucial! 298 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:39,000 The way people welcomed us, especially the club's DJ, that was awesome... 299 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,000 It clearly moved me!