But I didn t know it at that time.
So this experience at the funeral of Tabu Ley in 2013 leads you to these people, and that s where you get the idea to make this film?
Long story short, the idea of the film probably happened in two moments. The first moment was when I watched an American documentary film called
Playing for Change.
Yes. That s where musicians around the world collaborate together on covers of famous songs. Beautiful stuff.
Yes, made by Mark Johnson. I fell in love with that. I said, “Wow. The sound is amazing. How did he get that sound?” There were the microphones on camera. I loved it. I said, “One day if I could do something with that same energy, it would be amazing.” And while that film was still on my mind, I met Brazzos and Petit Pierre. Those were the first two Congolese rumba legends I met, before Kuka. And they told me about the African Jazz s trip to Brussels for the negotiations for the independence of Congo in January 1960. I had read a litt