Steve Lalla - 02/Sep/2010 Thirty-two years after Belgian record label owner Vincent Kenis first heard their music, the Democratic Republic of Congo's Konono No. 1 release the f...
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Chris Martins - 29/Jun/2010  It’s been six years since the world met Konono N°1, the Congolese thumb-piano posse that uses jury-rigged junkyard salvage to amplify its intensely rh...
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Richard Elliott - 10/Jun/2010  It may be a sign that Konono No. 1 have made their mark on the international musical consciousness that no introduction or attempt to explain the grou...
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Douglas Wolk - 10/Jun/2010  The earliest circulating recording of Konono No. 1 is "Mungua-Mungua", a half-hour-long live jam that was taped in 1978. Aside from its rudimentary so...
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Bill Meyer - 07/Jun/2010 Five years ago, the FatCat label paired the Congolese ensemble Konono No. 1 and the Dead C on a 12? EP. By doing so, they emphasized the group?s noisi...
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Hannah Gregory - 26/May/2010 The band was founded some forty years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé, who, upon arriving in the Congolese capital from the Bazombo area on...
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Richard Gehr - 24/May/2010  Four tracks into this Kinshasa institution's second album since the 1960s, founder Mingiedi Mawangu's solo is interrupted by the alarming thud of a br...
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Andrew Perry - 14/May/2010 Assume Crash Position ...
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Robin Denselow - 13/May/2010  Don't be put off by the title. UNITE may stand for the somewhat solemn and academic-sounding Urban Native Integrated Traditions of Europe, but this is...
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Louis Pattison - 12/May/2010 The West still has a tendency to evaluate music from Africa in slightly condescending terms – witness how anything rhythmic or percussion-led is so of...
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