konono no. 1
 

caught konono no. 1 in cambridge, mass last night. hands down one of the best shows/line ups all year. major stars with sunburned laying out fuzzy warm-up. totally recommend catching konono on this tour, plus they are from the congo when are you going to see them again!?

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hey, i checked your site. nice work !

i saw them play last year, they brought me to tears (in a good way).

I'm gonna see them in Summer on one of the summer festivals. Can't wait.

Saw them last year too in this small restuarant/bar in London. Sheer excellence.

I saw them last year, but didn't go when they were here just recently.
I enjoyed the show when I saw them, but it was REALLY long and if you don't dance (which I don't), you get the point fairly quickly. I do think they're well worth seeing though.
Plus, the place they play when they come here is a "cultural center" and it's about 25 bucks to get in, which I didn't really have to spare when they came through last.

thanks jico, i appreciate it!
yea it was a steep ticket here last night and $$$ is tight. i didnt know if i was going to go until i got word from the sunburned crew that i was on the guest list. however i am very grateful for them putting me on there because it was well worth it.
the thing is i am not even a dancer at shows either, but man they really make you dance even if you dont want to... completely hypnotic!

Yes!! I'm seeing Konono N°1 Saturday evening at Sfinks festival in Antwerp, Belgium. Sfinks is this world music festival and I'm very pleased they put Konono N°1 on their program this year.

Here's a nice promo vid I found at Aquarius records

KONONO N°1 PROMO VID

I've seen them play on Saturday night and I can say I've never seen something that repetitive and hypnotic as that ! They played one groove for +/- 40 minutes! The crowd went crazy.

Highly recommended!

Just saw these guys! They were excellent! So much fun, and yeah, very hypnotic.
That was tonight's bump. Good night everyone.

I would love to see them live. Really looking forward to the new album 'Assume Crash Position' that should be out soon, you can download one of the songs from the crammed website http://www.crammed.be/index.php?id=37&rel_id=349

i was the show dnorsen was originally posting about...yeah, good times.

i actually bought Assume Crash Position at the concert yesterday and yeah, it's really good. Better than Congotronics, which was already very good!