Friday, March 13, 2009

Friday Friday, it's a good time to fry

Now for something completely different.

Konono N°1 is a musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They combine three electric likembĂ© (a traditional instrument similar to the mbira) with voices, dancers, and percussion instruments that are made out of items salvaged from a junkyard. The group's amplification equipment is equally rudimentary, including a microphone carved out of wood fitted with a magnet from an automobile alternator and a gigantic horn-shaped amplifier.



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