Fridaynight we went rocking. The fourth edition of Rock a Ouaga.
We were impressed by Jacob Salem Kuilibila. It was not the standard african music, it really could be classified as rock, with good guitar music.
It was a mixed public and a nice atmosphere. We liked the man with the tall hat to the right in the photo. The hat of the man in the middle of the photo looked just like a bag. The hairstyles here are more interesting than in Rwanda, where men all seem to have short shaven heads.
Mouma Bob was less impressive, but because of his name and clothing we just needed to see him.
Not live pic of Bob - they didn't come out :(
So Saturday we went again. When we arrived the first band was just finishing. The organisation choose The Beatles as a theme for this edition and asked every band to do a Beatle song. Oon the first night we heard Let it be, and this band also choose Let it be. We were hoping not to hear anything like this again, so not a good start. The music was recognisable, but the lyrics sounded nothing like english: Speaking worse of wissum. So we were thinking: Please, let it be!
The second singer, Kontomé, had a nice voice, but was a bit too middle of the road for us. We did not come to listen to Rod Steward.
The best of the evening was Eugène Kounker, this guitar virtuoso played well. The only criticism that you could have is that english is not his mother tongue and therefor he sometimes struggles with the lyrics.
http://www.myspace.com/eugenekounker
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