To his left musicians on drums, percussion, vocals and other electric likembes are grooving to their own insistent rhythms, which layer and loop to trance-like effect. Mawangu is immobile, as if ...

Bjork is here! Konono N°1 are here! NYC is glowing. From Our Bjork interview: Will Antony be around to join you at your three upcoming NYC shows at Radio City, Apollo Theater, and United Palace? In ...

Konono No.1’s Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi has died at age 56. The Congolese group shared the sad news via Facebook, noting he had been ill for several months. Augustin had taken over as bandleader ...

Tom Moon has a review of the new album from the Kinshasa-based band Konono. It's called Congotronics. The group uses thumb piano and voices via megaphone. For more than 25 years a small band of ...

The city of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the home of Konono No.1 a band which has taken the African likembé (thumb piano) from a folkloric instrument, into the electronic age.

The band wander up to the stage for the sound check as electrified likembe notes – the high, distorted buzz of the African thumb-piano soldered into a basic sound-system – blast out. It's a sound that ...

Original member of the Congolese group who invented the electrified likembe died in Kinshasa Mingiedi Mawangu, founding member of Konono No 1, has died aged 85. According to a statement, the last ...

Anyone who has spent time in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, will know that it’s a city that bustles with an industrious and infectious energy. Maybe it was living there ...

Wildly imaginative, exuberant and always unpredictable, Björk has built an iconic career by consistently breaking new creative ground. Her album, Volta, is a high-energy, tribal romp across cultures, ...

One or two hangovers in the Uncut office today, so I'm cheerfully trying to make them worse by playing this new live album by Konono No 1. It's a terrific album, but it also operates on an insistent, ...

For more than 25 years a small band of resourceful musicians, who live in Bazombo on the border between Congo and Angola, have been making a strange and wonderful music. The group is Konono No. 1, and ...

In a 2014 book chapter titled ‘Africa=Recycling: Continuities And Discontinuities In The Reception Of African Contemporary Art’, Victoria L Rovine addresses the use of repurposed materials by ...