that's currently playing my my Winamp right now.
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Konono N?1 is a 25-year-old ensemble founded by master likembe (thumb-piano) player Mingiedi Mawangu. Their music is based on the Bazombe tradition, originating around the border of Congo and Angola. With three likembe players, a few singers and a couple of drummer/percussionists, Konono create truly unique music that's amplified through this strangely distorted sound system formed out of old car parts and kitchen utensils. Their intensity is relentless and the ensemble's propulsive rhythms and call-and-response vocals are hypnotizing. It's a huge sound that surges with a heavy bottom (the drums) countered by the resonating highs of the electrified likembe, which gives this music a resonating ting to it that is hard to describe.
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