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Konono N​°​1 meets Batida

by Konono n°1

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Yambadi Mama 06:21
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Tokolanda 09:34
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Bom Dia 04:22
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Kinsumba 06:42
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Kuna America 08:09
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Um Nzonzing 05:34

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For this new album, the legendary Congolese band has joined forces with acclaimed Angolan/Portuguese artist Batida aka Pedro Coquenão. Along with producer Vincent Kenis, they convened in Batida's garage-cum-studio in Lisbon with a series of collaborators and friends of Batida's, reflecting the city's vibrant, cosmopolitan music life: guitarist Papa Juju (the leader of Lisbon's foremost Afro-fusion band Terrakota), vocalist Selma Uamusse (one of the best young African singers currently residing in Portugal) and MC AF Diaphra, a distinguished slam poet and an artist/producer in his own right.

As we all know by now, Konono N°1 are based in Kinshasa, DRC, but originate from the Bakongo ethnic group, which lives in a region straddling the border between the Congo and Angola. Hence certain similarities between Konono's rhythms and some types of Angolan music from which Batida has drawn inspiration for his albums and shows. This encounter was obviously bound to happen… but was nevertheless quite an adventure: blending the worlds of electronics beats and organic grooves was a challenge to which the parties have risen beautifully to create this exciting, unheard-of new strain of Afro-electro music.

The album was jointly produced by Vincent Kenis and Pedro Coquenão

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released April 1, 2016

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Konono N°1 Democratic Republic of the Congo

The legendary Congolese band, founded back in the 1960s and masters of electrified likembe, introduced the world to the strange and spectacular electro-traditional mixtures which are being concocted in the suburbs of Kinshasa

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