Kenge Kenge - Introducing Kenge Kenge
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Artist: Kenge KengeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-06-26
Music Label: World Music Network
Soundtracks:
- KENGE KENGE
- AMILLY
- OBARE YINDA
- OWANG' WINYO
- OMEME NYAPURA
- ANYANGO MBEO
- OTENGA
- PINY AGONDA
Free Music Notes for Introducing Kenge Kenge
Free Music Review: KENYAN LUO MUSIC
Hit: 5 Stars
I DO NOT KNOW A THING ABOUT KENYAN LUO MUSIC, ITS' TRADITIONS OR HISTORY. BUT I HAVE DEVELOPED AN INTEREST IN AFRICAN MUSIC, AND THIS IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM MANY OF THE OTHER CD'S I HAVE, WHICH ARE PRIMARILY FROM WEST AFRICA (MALI, GUINEA, NIGER, NIGERIA, BURKINA FASO, SIERRA LEONE, ANGOLA, ETC.). THIS IS KENYAN MUSIC, PLAYED ON TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS, PRIMARILY STRINGED INSTRUMENTS, FLUTES AND PERCUSSION WITH VOCALS. IT IS VERY UPBEAT MUSIC, AND IS VERY ENJOYABLE.
Introducing Kenge Kenge Poster
Formed during the early 1990s, Kenge Kenge (the name refers to their instrumentation) is a modern exponent of Kenya's Luo tradition, a major rhythmic tributary of the benga guitar band craze. It utilizes hand-made acoustic instruments, notably a delirious-sounding, single-stringed fiddle called an orutu, which has many cousins throughout the world, plus drums, percussion, woodwinds, horns and call-and-response vocals. Kenge Kenge's sound is compulsively danceable -- hypnotic, earthy, and exhilarating -- and despite its surface simplicity, highly sophisticated. At times, the music recalls the trance-laden buzz of Congotronics (especially the first album), the ardent experimentation of American composer/inventor Harry Partch, the ecstatic incantations of Colombia's Tot? La Momposina, and the hip-switching, rumble-gutted punch of Brazil's Grupo Uakti. Initially led by Amdo Jawaya and Samuel Nyariwo, the ensemble began by playing back-up for the Catering Levy Trust Choir. But some time after present leader George Achieng signed on, it took on additional members, became more self-sufficient and gradually began incorporating selected contemporary grooves. This is not to say that the group has trespassed beyond its original folkloric frame of reference. It has merely moved a bit closer to what generations yet unborn will proudly claim as their cultural heritage. --Christina RodenKenge Kenge symbolise all that is great about African traditional music; they are the guardians and masters of an ancient but living tradition. They breath new life into Kenya's Luo musical roots, continuing its evolution, from the hand-made instruments of the past, through the popular guitar-based benga, and now returning to both re-explore the acoustic origins of benga and embrace their Luo musical heritage.
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