Incredible Congo band
Mar 15, 2022
2 minutes
LOUIS PATTISON
HEN Konono No 1’s landed in 2004, it turned world music upside down. A multigenerational group from Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of the Congo, its ‘tradi-modern’ sound – Bazombo ritual music played on electrified likembé thumb pianos and scrap percussion through jerry-rigged amplifiers – was crude, raw and enormously fun. “I first heard Konono in the ’80s, on a tape by
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