We play Kongolese dance music. Two guitarist from Sweden, the bass player from Uganda, drummer from Benin, two singers/dancers and one conga player from Kongo Kinshasa. The guitars are all clean.
It's actually really great music to play. Especially live when we do 20 min long dance marathon songs with lots of dancers on stage, but right now i am a little bit bored. Many of our gigs get screwed up in one way or another because of lousy arrangers and ourself. People coming late to the gig. People(mostly the bass player) that somehow suddenly is on a boat trip somewhere and had forgotten that he had a gig or when he came 4 hours late because he was at another gig and 300 people were waiting for us to start. But still it is fun. We are at facebook and myspace and soon on spotify. The problem with this kind of music when it is not live is that some people(our singer and bandleader) want the songs to be soft and with lots of crappy zynth sounds, something we never do live. But still, "Thats the way every one else is doing it, and so must we"!!! It is our swedish lead guitarist that arranges and writes almost all our songs. Im the rhythm guitarist and play the Axe II with mfc through a very cheap full range-ish monitor(Thoman the box MA1520 MKII, 160W) and with some compensation with the output GEQ on the axe it sounds equally good as my Mesa Mark V combo I had before! COOL!
