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    Konono No.1 Assume Crash Position

    Crammed
    • Konono No.1 – wumbanzanga
    • Konono No.1 – thin legs
    • Konono No.1 – fula fula
    • 1. wumbanzanga
    • 2. thin legs
    • 3. mama na bana
    • 4. makembe
    • 5. fula fula
    • 6. guiyome
    • 7. konono wa wa wa
    • 8. nakobala lisusu te

    Brand new album from Congolese street band Konono No.1!!!

    Recorded in their home domain of Kinshasa, DR Congo by Congotronics series producer Vincent Kenis, the long-anticipated follow-up to Konono's 2005 debut sees their trademark thrilling junkyard sonics and relentlessly hypnotic percussive grooves (as created using thumb pianos and drums made from scrap metal and disused car parts) further elevated with electric guitars and bass - played by neighbourhood musicians from a young Konono covers band! - as well as a wider range of vocalists plus guest appearances from guitarist Manuaku Pepe Felly (Zaïko Langa Langa) and members of fellow Congotronics band Kasai Allstars.

    The band's music is and will always be a very precise mixture of traditonal bazombo trance music with the distortion of their modern home-made equipment... but their sound on "Assume Crash Position" is somehow deeper, more layered and ethereal, without losing any of that signature raw power and driving energy!

    EXCELLENT!

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