Konono Number One - Congotronics
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Artist: Konono Number OneEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Crammed Disc Us
Soundtracks:
- Lufuala Ndonga
- Masikulu
- Kule Kule
- Ungudi Wele Wele
- Paradiso
- Kule Kule Reprise
- Mama Liza
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Free Music Review: AWESOME
Hit: 5 Stars
I AM ALWAYS INTERESTED IN DISCOVERING NEW AND DIFFERENT SOUNDS IN WORLD MUSIC, AND WHEN I PICKED THIS CD UP, I HIT THE JACKPOT! THIS IS WEST AFRICAN MUSIC, FROM THE AREA AROUND THE BORDER OF THE CONGO AND ANGOLA, AND IT IS ENHANCED BY ELECTRONIC AMPLIFICATION, WHICH WAS MADE FROM SPARE CAR PARTS, AS WELL AS SOME OF THE PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS AS WELL. A LOT OF CHANTING, CALL AND RESPONSE, DISTORTION, COMPLEX PERCUSSION RHYTHMS AND ELECTRONIC FINGER PIANO (IKEMBE), IT REALLY IS AN AMAZING EFFORT. YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD THE IKEMBE PLAYED LIKE THIS, OR SOUND LIKE THIS.
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Here's truly remarkable music from a streetcorner band that hails from the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. "Discovered" by awesome Dutch avant-punk act the Ex during a tour in the embattled region, Konono #1 makes hypnotic, beautiful, heavily rhythmic dance music with an often heavily-distorted electric thumb piano as the lead instrument. Fans of Fela and the Ethiopiques discs will dig this, as will fans of the Notwist, Prefuse 73 and Aphex Twin. Thankfully, Vincent Kenis' production allows the music to sound truly live, with plenty of distortion, frenzied call and response, and shambling percussion. Most of the instruments (including the twelve-piece group's renowned sound system itself) were scrounged ingeniously from scraps while microphones were carved from wood, so it's really important that the rough edges do show through. That's not to say there isn't inventive grace throughout, just that it's rad there's no candy-coated Daniel Lanois-type sheen here. In fact, it sounds like the whole studio was dancing up and down while making this awesome document. --Mike McGonigalA combination of ethnic tradition with a raw punky attitude played on improvised instruments. It's an important cultural link and it is also a significant demonstration of resourcefulness and musical development ? but more than all that Konono No.1 are extremely enjoyable."
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