WEBVTT 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:16.000 10 days of concerts, meetings, workshops dedicated to electronic music in Congo 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 ?! 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:56.000 Les Siestes Electroniques is actually a French festival that has started 10 years ago. 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. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:11.000 Watching a guy using his laptop, alone on stage... well it's kind of boring! 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:16.000 So we've tried to present this kind of musicians in different conditions. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:22.000 What if those music would be played in an open air venue, at the sunset ? 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.000 Wouldn't be easier and way more fun to listen to it ? 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.000 We've then explore more aesthetics, using the same "recipe", 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:42.000 presenting new music to new audience at parking lots, subway stations, churches ... 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:48.000 And at the French cultural center, you'll understand that electronic music can be plural 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, 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:59.000 but it can also be very soft, gentle, calm! 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:04.000 Thanks you guys, we wish you good luck! 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:09.000 We're speaking with Guillaume Kidula, Douster and Jay Weed. 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:15.000 Meet them tomorrow at the French cultural center! 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:28.000 The musician, alone, in front of his laptop screen, moving his mouse... 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. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:47.000 The gesture is now something that really counts for instance. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:54.000 We think that with new tools comes new possibilities. NOTE Paragraph 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:03.000 Our goal is thus to provide new tools and see what you'll do with them. 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:10.000 We're not here to say : "hey, electronic is cool, you should try" 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" 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.000 I'm a computer engineer from Toulouse. 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:28.000 I'm in Congo to organize music softwares trainings. 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, 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:38.000 and then develop new creative approaches. 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. 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". 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.000 I was first making rap music, 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. 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:12.000 I really enjoy all kind of music, coming from all over the world... 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:19.000 I'm then always interested by discovering new aestetics. 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:24.000 I think that electronic music had become more and more democratic, 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.000 because you can now do almost everything by yourself! 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. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:57.000 The first edition of Les Siestes Electroniques in Congo, in 2010, 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:03.000 has made us realise that there is space for electronic music in Congo. 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:08.000 The Congolese are willing to discover new musics! 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:13.000 I'm especially interested by all the local underground subgenres of electronic music. 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. 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:24.000 Even if there is no pure electronic music in Congo such as house or techno, 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:36.000 there is Coupé-Décalé or Ndombolo which are typical African music styles made with computers. 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:41.000 It seems like we have a good team of local musicians around us! 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:44.000 Pretty much motivated and open-minded... 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:49.000 I think we won't face absolutely no problem working with these guys! 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:50.000 But maybe I'm wrong, who knows ... 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:04.000 Douster and JayWeed performs live at the Institut Francais du Congo. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:15.000 When it started, you first ask yourself "wtf is this ?" 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.000 What we have here: only up-tempo music! 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:23.000 Tempo is beautiful, alright. Tempo is made to dance. 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:26.000 But it's speechless! 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:30.000 It doesn't make any sense! How can you understand music then ? 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.000 What is the meaning of this music ? 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:35.000 What does it says? 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.000 You must speak, you must explain! 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.000 You must have a topic! 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.000 Then people will understand! Then people will give a shout out! 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:49.000 Here it's just "TUKU TUKU TUK TUKU TUKU TUK"! 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:52.000 According to me it's a MESS! ... 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:57.000 Jean-Michel Jarre was playing melodies on his synthetizers, 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:01.000 but here it's way more percusive music... 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:05.000 and that's how it becomes universal! 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... 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.000 Everybody stand up and dance: 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:22.000 Pure bliss, everybody's in trance! 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:28.000 I'm clearly unhappy! Everything they're playing is prerecorded! 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.000 They're actually not playing! 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:37.000 It's like if robots were playing for me! 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:42.000 True music need true musicians! 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:49.000 Musicians playing their instruments and you can say: this one plays this, that one plays that... 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:52.000 People showed up to discover electronic music, 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! 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:07.000 There is a vibe, and that vibe makes the rythm. 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.000 Music is not just only words, 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:11.000 music is what you're hearing! 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... 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:30.000 There was a communion of spirit. You've made a success. 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:35.000 We lack that kind of gigs here! I really enjoyed it tonight! 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. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:47.000 You see, even if we're only discovering electronic music, people get that feeling of trance... 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:51.000 People were jumping around... "Hot ambiance!" as they say in the Antilles! 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. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:02.000 While we discover that music, we make it ours. 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.000 We make it ours, and it gives us ideas! 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:06.000 It gives us ideas... and that's the beauty of it! 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:15.000 Do you have broadcast advertisment? Of course we do! 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:30.000 Being a congolese Dj is kind of hard. We have to work with very few... 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. 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.000 Do you handle the aircon as well?Yes! 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. 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:47.000 I have to play all kind of stuff as i play for all kinds of people 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:50.000 A DJ must try to know about all kinds of music. 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:54.000 Every week end, i go around the clubs to see the Djs. 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:59.000 If there's a good track i haven't got already, i take it. 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. 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:08.000 My music is the romantic Zouk. I really like the Zouk. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.000 When i'm working the Zouk, i don't like to be disturb. 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:17.000 The R'nB. R'nB is where i can express myself totally, peacefully. 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.000 I see the girl dance, i'm in the show too... 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:21.000 So it's my favorite music, the R'n'B. 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. 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:28.000 That's why the people respects the DJs! 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.000 If you call a girl, she may not come. 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.000 But if I call a girl, she respects me, she'll come! 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:40.000 We aren't respected. People assume that we're weed's smokers, 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:44.000 or an illiterate, somebody that has no level... 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:48.000 Trully, people thinks that we do that job for girls! 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.000 Somehow it's true, but not only! 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.000 Girls come by themselves, to hit on you, in front of people! 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.000 They're like "You know I'll love you, here's my phone number, call me!" 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:00.000 You get numbers of course, but our purpose is still the love of music. 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:03.000 It's our job, we were born to it, we live with it! 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.000 Girls come by themselves, it's automatic! 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! 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:23.000 I start to work at 14:00, from 14:00 to 21:00. 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:27.000 So as soon as people enter the room, I start mixing. 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:30.000 When there's nobody I put mixtapes and I wait around, 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:34.000 when people enter, i set the dancefloor on fire! 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.000 The "VIP" starts earlier. 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:08.000 Let's say they start at 15:00 and close around midnight. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:15.000 Nightclubs are different as they start around 20:00, 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.000 and till 2:00 or 3:00 at night. 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, 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:30.000 and every congolese like to have a bier before going home! 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.000 That's why we're opening around 14:00, to get that specific audience. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.000 I won't play any scarry thing! 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:58.000 Cause you do not scare your audience! 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:03.000 I'll scare them enough! 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.000 Do you believe in Acid House's comeback? 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:10.000 Yes, we'll import the "neo-colonialist Acid House" in Congo! 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:13.000 20 years later, is about the right time for acid house in Congo! 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:19.000 Knowing that congolese may have problem to go around, as going around remains expensive, 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:24.000 we organised some kind of "tour" based on buses. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:27.000 So we could bring a part of the audience from club to club. 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. 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:42.000 Excursions are made by daylight! It's now nightime, wtf?! 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:45.000 It's as we were going to some warlock! 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:49.000 - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs!- It looks like a club ... 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:51.000 - Of course, we're in Vegas! 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:54.000 - Men, it's no Las Vegas, it's Brazza! 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... 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:08.000 One chance out of two that people throw you tomatoes! 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. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:22.000 We've been in three different nightclubs, all really different from each other. 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:29.000 We started with "Le Plaisir", a kind of neighborhood club, with a much younger audience. 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:34.000 The ambiance was much more rough, with a funny Dj booth! 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:39.000 I loved the Dj booth there! 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.000 Sick light installation! 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.000 When we arrived the resident dj was playing local music, audience was enjoying. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:15:02.000 We plugged in and Douster started playing Dancehall. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:11.000 You have to know that Dancehall is not really well known in Congo. 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... 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:29.000 So even this beginning was surprising for the Congolese crowd. 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:32.000 Mirrors are everywhere in the clubs. That struck me. 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:34.000 And people are dancing in front of those mirrors! 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:38.000 Everybody was in line, in front of the mirrors! 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! 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.000 And he has some crazy dance moves, believe me. 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:23.000 This guy has imported the Smurf dance in Congo! 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:40.000 "When music comes, rhythms diverge" 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:49.000 When Jeremie was playing, the "head" of the local djs guild had hosted the mix, 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:59.000 speaking about trance music and declaring some weird punchlines to the audience! 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:07.000 "The ambiance doesn't choose... you just have to live it" 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)" 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:25.000 There is a lot of white people tonight! 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:29.000 And I have had the feeling the white people were playing their white music ... 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:34.000 I come, i here reggae, your music, but it's not my style! 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:38.000 Le plaisir is my club. I'm going regularly to Le Plaisir. 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... 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:48.000 But you're playing your music and I'm not interested... at all! 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.000 When we arrived at the second club, the atmosphere was different. 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. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:18.000 The mixing desk was about this height... 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.000 So you have to get on two beer crates... 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:27.000 which were quite unsteady... 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 :) 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:47.000 It looks like everything is always thrown together at the last minute ... 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. 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:59.000 So a fourth guy came up to fix it... We were five behind the desk then! 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:04.000 The guy was pulling the electrical wires, making electrical sparkles at 20 cm of us! 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:10.000 And the night became more and more electronic as one goes along. 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:16.000 It became then more cutting edge, less casual for the Congolese crowd. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:21.000 We've played UK Funky, then hard Techno and stuff like that... 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! 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:05.000 And it was pretty good, it fits! 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:14.000 Some people even thought it was part of the original played tracks! 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:22.000 At the end Mad Michel, the boss of the Boyoma-Boyoma club, made us a surprise. 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.000 He asked to clear the dancefloor. Everybody stopped to dance. 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:30.000 And then cames 4 kids, 14-16 yo 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! 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:51.000 An ecstatic show! The strobes were flashing, the dance moves were extreme! 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:59.000 The atmosphere was definitively different compared to the European one... 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:03.000 Way more hot. An extremely reactive audience. 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:10.000 People that came to the Dj booth really made my night! 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:15.000 As for the audience it was 50/50 I would say. 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:19.000 Some people were quite curious, open to new sounds and jump into it, 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:27.000 but some others were more reluctant and sometimes quite unhappy about this "novelty". 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.000 But I hope altogether it has pleased most of them ... 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:33.000 At least we were quite happy about it :) 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:35.000 Generally speaking, it worked! 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:41.000 Of course we haven't been able to pleased everyone... 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.000 Then we went to Le Groove club. 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.000 When we entered the club, it was packed! 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:55.000 And when Douster and Jay Weed started mixing, people were watching, listening, but not dancing. 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, 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:06.000 It looks like they were here to only satisfy themselves... 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! 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:17.000 So people started to leave the dancefloor... :) 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:26.000 Some went out, for sure, because it was so much "European", too much for them... 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:30.000 It didn't bother me. I was there because I was willing to discover. 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:35.000 And when you're looking for something new, nothing can bother you! 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!" :) 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! 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:56.000 They buy a lot of drinks! 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:01.000 The Europeans, they only buy a bottle of beer from time to time ... 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. 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:16.000 I didn't know how the resident djs of all the "VIPs" would welcome us... 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... 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:33.000 Fact is we've been very warmly welcomed by all the resident djs! 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. 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:42.000 So it's hard to get new stuffs to play... 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! 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. 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! 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.000 My vision about Africa? It's a mess and i like it! 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:33.000 I've found quite happy folks here. 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:44.000 It feels good! Their open-mindedness is a blessing! 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:49.000 I must confess that I didn't knew much about Africa before coming here ... 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! 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.000 Congo isn't an easy country to understand... 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:19.000 We speak the same langage, so we think we understand each other... 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:25.000 but it's way more complex! 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:30.000 Our cultures are different. Our visions of the world are different. 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. 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 ... 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. 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:57.000 For example, when I set up a meeting at 9:00 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:02.000 most of the Congolese think they have until 9:59 to arrive ... which is true! 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:06.000 Here you also have to get used to a "last minute" way to do everything... 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! 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:18.000 We've booked buses for the club night, for instance 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:23.000 I've had the firm confirmation only 3 days before the gig ... 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:26.000 Unbelievable in France, absolutely normal here! :) 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:30.000 The money issue is also quite hard to deal with. 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:34.000 You're in a country where most of the people live with very few... 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:36.000 But also in a country which has oil resources, 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:41.000 and fortunes are made on that material of course... 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:45.000 Next to this you have people that live with really hard conditions, 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.000 with no water nor electricity, 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:53.000 which can create some "kafka-like" situation sometimes... 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. 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:06.000 We're organizing an event in Congo from France, 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... 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:53.000 The congolese way to deal with the rain may be extreme: it just stops everything!.... 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:58.000 When it rains the taxi cabs and buses almost stop circulating, there are floods everywhere ... 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:01.000 Time stops when it rains! 00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:08.000 So I was expecting 2 or 3 participants today, 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:16.000 15 trainees were there, behind their laptop, ready to work, already tweaking knobs! 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:21.000 That's a clear indicator of succes! 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... 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:48.000 Performance of all the Brazzaville's workshop participants. 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:21.000 Arrival in Pointe Noire. 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.000 It's hard to fall totally in love with Pointe Noire.. 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:40.000 The gap between the poor and the rich is too big. 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:48.000 We've been in the neighborhood, and where all the expats foreigners are living... 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.000 It gives you a weird feeling... 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 :) 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.000 There are more foreigners... more money too... and loads of oil! 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.000 The Congolese oil is here! 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... 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... 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:36.000 When you're going to club here, only the prostitutes speak to you for instance ... 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:44.000 Sunset DJ set at "L'escale d'Emex" 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! 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... 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:06.000 We were far from our "sunset at the sea" fantasy! 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:10.000 Night and a huge shower rain felt at the same time... 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:15.000 Oddly enough people came at that very moment and started to dance their ass of! 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:17.000 And from there... It was massive! 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! 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! 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, 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, 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:35.000 pointe noire's expats and brazzaville's friends came as well... and finally kids! 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! 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:48.000 We ended up with a feeling that was much likely our french version of Les siestes: 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! 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. 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. 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:35.000 Things are still possible here and new things are emerging. 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. 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... 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. 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. 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... 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:33.000 So sharing is crucial, talking is crucial! 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:39.000 The way people welcomed us, especially the club's DJ, that was awesome... 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:41.000 It clearly moved me!