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[Album] KOKOKO! kündigen Instrumental-Album von “Fongola“ an!

Das kongolesisch/belgische Kollektiv KOKOKO! veröffentlicht die Intrumentals zu dem 2019 erschienenem Debütalbum “Fongola”! Die elf Insturmentals erscheinen produktionsbedingt nun am 05. Februar 2021 via Transgressive.

Das euphorische Debüt des Kinshasa-Kollektivs, das selbstgebaute Instrumente verwendet, um seinem Hybrid-Sound Street-Party-Energie und Punk-Einstellung zu verleihen, wird nun nochmal als Instrumental-Album released! Auf diese Weise kann die unverwechselbare Mischung aus organischen und elektronischen, pulsierenden Grooves noch einmal ganz neu erlebt werden.

Die Musikkultur von Kinshasa, der Hauptstadt der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, hat tiefe und verworrene Wurzeln, die durch die Energie von Kokoko! seit der Gründung 2016 aufrechterhalten bleibt. “Fongola” - das vom französischen Musiker Débruit produziert wurde - behandelt die turbulente, politische Geschichte des afrikanischen Landes und setzt dabei DIY-Instrumente wie eine Flaschenpercussion oder dreisaitigen Gitarren gekonnt in Szene.

Tracklist “Fongola (Instrumentals)”: 01. Likolo 02. Azo Toke 03. Buka Dans 04. Identité 05. Malembe 06. L.O.V.E 07. Tongos’a 08. Zala Mayele 09. Singa 10. Kitoko 11. Tokoliana

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[Album] KOKOKO! kündigen Instrumental-Album von “Fongola“ an!

Das kongolesisch/belgische Kollektiv KOKOKO! veröffentlicht die Intrumentals zu dem 2019 erschienenem Debütalbum "Fongola"! Die elf Insturmentals erscheinen am 11. Dezember digital via Transgressive.

Das euphorische Debüt des Kinshasa-Kollektivs, das selbstgebaute Instrumente verwendet, um seinem Hybrid-Sound Street-Party-Energie und Punk-Einstellung zu verleihen, wird nun nochmal als Instrumental-Album released! Auf diese Weise kann die unverwechselbare Mischung aus organischen und elektronischen, pulsierenden Grooves noch einmal ganz neu erlebt werden.

Die Musikkultur von Kinshasa, der Hauptstadt der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, hat tiefe und verworrene Wurzeln, die durch die Energie von Kokoko! seit der Gründung 2016 in aufrechterhalten bleibt. "Fongola" - das vom französischen Musiker Débruit produziert wurde - behandelt die turbulente, politische Geschichte des afrikanischen Landes und setzt dabei DIY-Instrumente wie eine Flaschenpercussion oder dreisaitigen Gitarren gekonnt in Szene.

Tracklist "Fongola (Instrumentals)": 01. Likolo 02. Azo Toke 03. Buka Dans 04. Identité 05. Malembe 06. L.O.V.E 07. Tongos’a 08. Zala Mayele 09. Singa 10. Kitoko 11. Tokoliana

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Rachel no. 22

KOKOKO! – FONGOLA

You're right, this is getting intense. What is music? What do I like? Who am I? I feel as if this is the kind of exercise the School of Life might get you to do as a way to reconnect with your voice and your values and sense of purpose/fun. I'm lost.

I noticed the Guardian have been doing their top 50 by democratic process – they got fifty different critics to vote on their top 20 and based the final list off a points system; and look at the Turner Prize! I told you we were in the age of post-hierarchyism.

KOKOKO! have said their ethos is "survival fuels creativity". It's the sound of Kinshasa, Africa's third largest city, where the urban infrastructure buckles and gives out, where traditional instruments are only found in the relatively wealthy evangelical churches. A collective of inventors, musicians and artists, the members are part of a scene of alternative instrument-makers, harvesting sound from scraps and junk. I've got a slight-discomfort about the dystopic possibilities of this music, made possible by and through and despite life conditions that exist because of a world of criminal inequality; I don't want to fetishise that. So, I'll say it loud – this is ecstatic, but it is also art as protest and KOKOKO! are at the forefront of a Congolese wave making music in and about an increasingly strained political context.

They connected with Belgian producer Débruit back in 2016, when he was in the city shooting a film, and the collaboration grew from there. The sound is wild textures, ripped from the city. Dido, a primary member who makes the musical objects, told It’s Nice That, “we’re always looking for innovation, to find new sounds, the city is already very sonic so with your eyes closed you know who is around you…The street sellers each have their own rhythm, people who sell nail polishes bang them together to a certain rhythm, those who shine shoes have wooden boards which add another sound or people announcing destinations on minibuses.”

Débruit has said he was fascinated by the techno-qualities, improvisational but insistently present, despite the musicians not being familiar with the music. I’d argue this is probably because techno is a bastardisation of a lot of other things, and framed around essential rhythms and elements, rather than this slightly uncomfortable implication of it being the other way round. I also don’t much think Fongola shares common ground with techno. But it’s not got that thin, improvisational found-sound quality you might imagine from ‘music objects’ – which makes me think of performances in white cube gallery spaces. The instruments are hand made, their scope and range impossible to realise except by the person who invented it, so it probably sounds more like nothing you’ve ever heard. They call this up-cycled party “tekno kintueni” and ‘kintueni’ is a Congolese rhythm/dance, “a raw, hypnotic dance music that fuses local tradition with contemporary influences and new musical directions”. This is a music of emergency and choas, it's also raw and urgent and brilliant. A standout track is BUKA DANSA, which means 'dance till it breaks', or 'break the dance'. Brining the protest and the party, embrace the possibilites of that.

I’m not sure how this album ever made its way OUT of my top 25, but here we are. I’ve lost the thread and everything is up for dispute. Tomorrow’s placement brought to you by rune-reading?

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Introducing: KOKOKO! / September Show

Introducing: KOKOKO! / September Show

Anyone with a passing familiarity with the music of the Democratic Republic of Congo know that the country seems to produce a surplus of fantastic musicians. Konono No.1, Staff Benda Bilili, and Mbongwana Star are just a couple relatively recent examples and the country has a long history of them. 

The latest sensation to emerge from Kinshasa is called KOKOKO!, a DIY collective comprised of a…

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[News + Video] KOKOKO! veröffentlichen Video zu Buka Dansa

Das Kinshasa-Kollektiv KOKOKO! veröffentlichte letzten Monat ihr brillantes Debütalbum “Fongola”, welches von der Kritik hoch gelobt wurde. Nun teilen sie ihr Video zum Hit “Buka Dansa”.

Die Band erklärt: "Dido Oweke wakes up at home, and fantasises about making it. Being a star. Having cool people behind him and supporting him, the hype that goes with it. Everything. We follow his imagination from the tough neighbourhood he lives in to the party of his dreams, where he becomes the frontman, discovers the "Japanese" Sapuers of Kinshasa and sings his song - 'Buka Dansa'."

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[Video] KOKOKO! spielen Boiler Room Set in London

Das kongolesische Kollektiv KOKOKO! hat in London ein exklusives Liveset für die renommierte Boiler Room Serie aufgenommen. Mit ihren selbstgebauten Instrumenten und ungebändigter Energie entsteht eine lebendige und wilde Mischung aus Elektro, Punk und HipHop, die dem hauptsächlich für Techno und elektronische Musik bekannten Boiler Room mehr als gerecht wird. 

Mit ihrem Debütalbum “Fongola” (05.07. auf Transgressive Records) haben KOKOKO! schon so einige Bühnen abgerissen und überzeugen mit einer einzigartigen musikalischen Mischung und Energie. Wer diese mitreißende Liveperformance erleben möchte, hat dafür im Winter noch die ein oder andere Chance, wenn die Band in Deutschland Headline-Shows spielt:

13.11. Köln - Stadtgarten 14.11. Berlin - Berghain 15.11. Leipzig - TransCentury Update 20.11. Hamburg -Kampnagel Booking: Emerged Agency 

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KOKOKO! ‎– Fongola (and BlueDot 2019)

KOKOKO! ‎– Fongola (and BlueDot 2019)

I received a yellow vinyl version of Fongola by KoKoKo! a couple of weeks ago via my Rough Trade subscription and I didn’t get to play it more than once before I headed to Hong Kong and then the festival. It was coincidence, a useful one, that they were playing as to receive a new album and get to see the band shortly after is pretty cool.

A wind of change is blowing over the cultural…

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