Maitre Gazonga & L'International Challal - 1984 - Les Jaloux Saboteurs

   Born May 27, 1948 in Am-Timan, capital of the Salamat region in the southeast of Chad , Ahamat Saleh Rougalta known as “Hamed Gazonga” or “Master Gazonga” has been playing football since his childhood (goalkeeper ) then athletics before moving to Ndjamena where he survives with odd jobs.

In 1968, at the age of 20, he decided to take up music and make it his career. He then joined city groups before founding the orchestra L'International Challal, with which he toured throughout the country, going from village to village to broadcast his music and please. In these rural areas marked by poverty and which he knows well, Master Gazonga asks farmers who do not have financial means to pay their entry tickets with foodstuffs (millet, peanuts, rice, sorghum, rice, fish). dried, chickens, eggs, beans, etc.). Thus, he can resell them on the markets of the capital Ndjamena and pay his musicians. His numerous tours in all regions of the country will make L'International Challal one of the most popular groups in Chad.

In 1984, Maître Gazonga moved to Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ) where he rubbed shoulders with various artists and recorded “Les Jaloux Saboteurs” at the JBZ studio, the flagship title of his first album which immediately became a huge success. Drawing inspiration from his life in exile, he recounts the difficulties encountered by a foreigner living far from his country, the jealousies of the natives who deny him his modest success and the experience that a foreigner always faces.

Despite this popularity, he decided to return home where he released cassettes. In 1986, his famous title “Les Jaloux Saboteurs” was part of the soundtrack of the film “Black Mic Mac” by Thomas Gillou and Cheikh Doucouré, with Jacques Villeret and Isaac de Bankolé as star actors.

One of the most popular singers in his country, Maître Gazonga died on April 1, 2006 at the National General Reference Hospital (HGRN) in Ndjamena, Chad , following sudden and violent headaches. This unfortunate event occurring on April Fool's Day (April 1), his public did not initially believe in his disappearance.

TRACKLIST:

A1 Les Jaloux Saboteurs

A2 Koysse

B1 Fatoumata Kante

B2 Kelina

Credits:

Bass Guitar – Niamké Louis

Chorus – Rastayou, Saleh (2)

Congas [Tumba] – Karim Ayinla*

Drums – Téoquer Léon

Guitar [Accompanying] – Mamboué Maurice

Guitar [Solo] – Ningayo Issa

Saxophone [Tenor] – Beugré Edouard

Trumpet – Kabiné Traoré*

Vocals – Hamed Gazonga*

Recorded At – JBZ Recording Studio, Abidjan

Distributed By – Celluloid

Produced For – AS Records

 Xamdam Sobirov - 2023 - Tentakcham

Xamdam Sobirov was born on January 6, 1989 in a village in the Navbahor district and graduated from the Tashkent State Art Institute.

In 2011 he founded the vocal trio Mango, with peers Oybek Sangin and Azizxon Saydumarov. It is a pop project over which the three have little control (they are based at Nevo Music, the largest local label together with Riza Nova), but despite a certain diffusion in the media, the hoped-for profits do not arrive, so much so that the artist is going through a period of economic difficulty.

In 2016 Mango disbanded and the following year Sobirov attempted a solo career, initially without particular success, so much so that to support himself he decided to work as an author for the ensemble of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The collaboration ends in 2019, when his popularity finally begins to expand: since then it has been a continuous crescendo, which leads him in 2021 to become the most popular singer of the moment and in February 2022 to release "Tentakcham", a hugely successful single which established itself throughout Central Asia, in the area of ​​the Turkic languages, becoming the most listened to song in Uzbek on YouTube (to date it has over 137 million visits; only recently it was surpassed by another song by Sobirov himself, " Janze").

His fourth studio work was finally released on April 17, 2023 (preceded by an EP and two albums): it contains the single mentioned above, plus others published periodically in the last couple of years.

Sobirov himself composes nine out of thirteen songs (the remaining four are signed by his young colleagues), while the arrangements are almost entirely handled by Doniyor Akhmedov, house producer and member of the Dndm project, which also boasts a cult following in Europe, at least among club music fans.

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TRACKLIST:

1. Gavharim

2. Esla Meni

3. Nega Og'ritar Dilim

4. Ona Qizim

5. Maktabimda

6. Onaginam

7. Sumaya

8. Tentakcham

9. Qishloqqa Qayt

10. Sumbula

11. Yaxshi Ko'rsam Nima Qipti

12. Yengildim

13. 20-Mart

Credits:

Composed by:  Xamdam Sobirov, Uzmir (track 3), Shohjahon Ergashev (track 4), Mirjalol Nematov (track 6), Malik Ergashev (track 9)

Arranged by:  Doniyor Akhmedov

Published by:  Nevo Music