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This Congolese musical group has been active since the late 70s, going under various names including Orchestre Tout Puissant Likembe Konono No 1 and L’Orchestre Folklorique T.P. Konono No 1 (the T.P. stands for tout puissant, French for ‘all powerful’). Based in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the group is led by likembé player Mawangu Mingiedi (1933). He assembled a group of amateur musicians and singers from his native tribe, the Bazombo, but attempts to play the acoustic music associated with the likembé (a traditional Congolese thumb piano) were hampered by the ambient noise of a bustling city

Album

Meets Batida

By Konono No.1

Label: Crammed Discs
Released: 2016
Track listing: Nlele Kalusimbiko; Yambadi Mama; Tokolanda; Bom Dia; Kinsumba; Nzonzing Familia; Kuno America; Um Nzonzing.

Article: Album Review

Konono No.1: Meets Batida

Read "Meets Batida" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
March 15, 2016

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. Back in the sixties, it's founder Mingiedi Mawangu figured out how to amplify the likembé, using salvaged car parts, and wired ...

Album

Congotronics

By Konono No.1

Label: Crammed Discs
Released: 2005
Track listing: Lufuala Ndonga; Masikulu; Kule Kule; Ungudi Wele Wele; Paradiso; Kule Kule Reprise; Mama Liza.

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Article: Album Review

Konono No.1: Congotronics

Read "Congotronics" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
April 13, 2005

Once in a while an album comes along which is so insanely wonderful that--jazz or not--it needs to be brought to the attention of this community. Such an album is Congotronics by Kinshasa trance band Konono No.1. Unless you live in Kinshasa, or were at Amsterdam's Paradiso club last year for the recording of ...