Konono No 1 | World music review

Scala, LondonNdjili is an overcrowded and hectic suburb not far from Kinshasa airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and it's here that Konono No 1 spent much of their career, playing in local bars and scouring the second-hand market for car parts that could be used to make DIY instruments. It wasn't an easy life, but it was transformed five years ago when they left Congo for the European concert circuit, found that their furious, distorted style was compared to anyone from Lee Perry a...

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