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You are famous artists, it's an understatement to say that you have reached the peaks of your profession once you are in shoes Like yours, what continues to motivate you to give the best of yourself?
Toto: Being aware that I still have so much to discover, cultures to meet and dimensions of life to celebrate.
Lokua: What is paradoxical in art is that you will never reach what you dream of having, so you remain a student all your life ... and so a lot of things to learn.
Have you once imagined, what you would have done if you weren’t musicians ?
Toto: I like pictorial art, drawing, architecture, political science, study of the animal world, history, culinary art ...
Lokua: I would have loved to be a medical doctor ... so I could be useful to humanity.
According to some informations you have not planned a concert for Bondeko why?
Toto: I hope it will be soon possible.
Lokua: In my humble opinion, everyone is in full in his personal projects, but the live is not excluded in the future.
Bondeko as its predecessor is produced by No Format a label that you know very well because you are practically founding members, art and business are forced to get along, whereas what do you prefer business of art or business in art? Because both seem not to be often compatible ... (battle of money against art) art loves creativity and business formatting that erases sometimes creativity, I know at your level there is no longer a question about your freedom in creation, but what to do when the music seems to have become a simple commercial product an idea to get out of this slump for the real aficionados of good music that we are?
Toto: To know, or to be able to say no, to certain propositions presented as tantalizing pecuniary. I chose a path of coherence in relation to my convictions and live more modestly. I have my time and so far I have been free of my choices.
Flashmag December 2017 www.flashmag.net
This ultimate privilege is the most valuable asset in my eyes.
Lokua: Welcome to No Format, because we did not have a problematic conflict, we had carte blanche to have fun, and to be far from the ambient formatting ...
You are part of the generation of Afro musician who are in the wake of Fela, Kassav and Manu Dibango ... And honestly we can say that you have taken up the challenge of your elders who have set the bar very high however it seems that the generation that comes after you has trouble following why?