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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Konono No.1
Title......: Live at Harbourfront, Toronto, July 8
Rip Date...: Jul-19-2006 Cat.No.....: n/a
Style......: Ethnic Label......: n/a
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 68,4 MB Source.....: MD
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Thanks to the supply chain... I would have recorded this myself,
but had a dinner party that night instead. Astute readers of the
below review from Now Magazine will realize why this sort of thing
is within DPS' purview. Close listening may reveal more MD codec
artifacts than usual - sorry about that!
Two thumbs up!
DIY electro mbira crew Konono No. 1 cast spell at Harbourfront
By JASON KELLER
KONONO NO. 1 at the Harbourfront Centre, July 8. Tickets: free.
Attendance: 800. Rating: NNNN
If necessity is the mother of invention, then Konono No. 1 must
have absolutely needed to play music. These Congolese playing
their banged-out homemade instruments make you feel optimistic
about the human capacity for innovation. That's particularly true
in this case, where the musicians are faced with economic
adversity and geographic isolation.
Konono took the Harbourfront stage just as the sun disappeared
behind the lake. Considering this was their first Toronto visit,
the level of enthusiasm greeting them was extremely high. Even
they looked visibly shocked by rows of standing bodies pressed
against the front barrier applauding. Nevertheless, the sextet
assumed their three-three position and immediately fired up their
junkyard engines to the infectious beat of a trancey African
groove.
Flanked by megaphones that look like props from M.A.S.H, Konono
boasted three likembe players, including band leader, vocalist and
septuagenarian Mawangu Mingiedi . As they started thumbing their
hand-held metal boxes rigged with mics made from magnets and car
scrap, the three percussionists, one using a scrap-metal drum,
jumped into the mix. Bodies instantly began to move.
About 30 minutes in, someone leaned over and asked me, "Is this
still the first song?" I couldn't reply with certainty, as I had
at that point slipped into a sub-Saharan zone of Bazombo trance
induced by steadying flows of pulsating tribal rhythms, muffled
vocal chants and seamless intersections of those melodic makeshift
likembΘs. It all came through a warm, gritty distortion produced
by their spare-parts amplification system. What finally snapped me
out were the hip-shaking hypnotics of Konono's lone female member,
Mbuka Msiala . Although nearing the senior-citizen age bracket,
she could have shamed any nubile rap video chic with her sexually
subtle dance moves done with arms rapturously outstretched over
her head. For the record, Konono played about four songs over the
90 minutes, all from the Congotronics (Crammed) album. When they
returned for an encore, heads started craning in the opposite
direction as fireworks filled the sky over nearby Ontario Place.
The luminescent explosions might as well have been a victory
celebration for these former Zairians. They gave us an always
needed reminder of music's infinite possibility.
p l a y l i s t
01 live at harbourfront, toronto, july 8, 2006 77:52
77:52 min
g r e e t i n g s
1real - 1way - aes - amok - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms
def - dh - disc0 - emp - drum - ftd - fwyh - gxe - hit2k - jfk
jrp - just - kinky - kw - om - rac - radial - sb - sfe - soup
sour - tr - trt - ube - uki // respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl