Konono No 1 (DV Blog)

Konono No 1 Promotional Video (2005, 14MB, 4:20 min)

However I was completely won over by this article, which makes clear

producer Vincent Kenis’s deep knowledge of and devotion to the music

and its performers.

Furthermore it’s the kind of scholarly yet readable account of something

that one so often yearns to find on the net & so rarely does.

Watch the vid then read the article.

I bet you end up buying some of the music.

*** the much trumpeted comparison with avant-rock &c is
marketing horseshit of the highest order of course – why the hell
should two things that have developed in virtually completely separate
social, political, economic & cultural circumstances be comparable
in any meaningful sense simply because they share common surface
features? Worse still, the comparison could be taken to imply that this
music was somehow evolving towards the condition of western avant-rock..euurgh!