Name: Assume Crash Position
Brand: Konono No 1

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

craw60

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2010-05-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Konono No 1

Genre GB

African

Label GB

'assume crash position' is the new album from congolese street band konono no.1, the fourth volume in the congotronics series from crammed discs. once again recorded in kinshasa, the vast capital of the democratic republic of congo by congotronics series producer vincent kenis, the long-anticipated follow-up to konono's 2005 debut sees their trademark thrilling junkyard sonics and relentlessly hypnotic percussive grooves (created using thumb pianos and drums made from scrap metal and disused car parts) further enhanced with electric guitars and bass, played by neighbourhood musicians, and a wider range of vocalists, plus guest appearances from guitarist manuaku pepe felly (zako langa langa) and members of fellow congotronics band kasai allstars. the band's music is a very precise mixture of traditonal bazombo trance music with the distortion of their modern home-made equipment but their sound on 'assume crash position' is somehow deeper, more layered and ethereal, without losing any of that signature raw power and driving energy. gloriously extended full band tracks take off like never before but also, for the first time, we hear konono stripped right back to their essence: the album's final song, "nakobala lisusu te", features just the band's founder and master, mingiedi (now in his late-seventies) and his likembe. "i don't feel like getting married any more", he sings in sweet and mournful tones, "because women nowadays think marriage is just a six month affair".

Assume Crash Position

Music GB