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Kenge Kenge: Introducing… Kenge Kenge

by Deanne Sole

[1.Aug.07] :. In their explosiveness they're closer to David Fanshawe's field recordings of East African rural music, the hooting bung'o horn and so forth, than the tidier benga from Shirati Jazz.

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Konono No. 1: Congotronics

by Michael J. Kramer

[27.Jan.06] :. Their music accepts the distortion, overtones, and surprising sonorities of contemporary life, but re-imagines instrumental power from the trash heap of modernity.

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