Konono No 1

http://www.africanhiphop.com/africanhiphopnews/baloji-konono-no-1/

nice collaboration from 2010 I somehow missed.

I just watched Félicité (2017) a few nights ago. Excellent film which features a lot of Kasai Allstars music
to great effect.

JUst listening to this stuff on Nyege Nyege tapes when I saw this thread and thought the sound pretty much crossed over
https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/kadodi
relentlessly p[ercussive tribal African meets electronica stuff I just discovered cos of an article on a festival the record label held in September.

^^ purchased

Cool, just been listening through various of the acts on the label thanks to the feature here
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/04/06/nyege-nyege-tapes-feature/
and the initial article which was in the latest Wire.

Saw this great documentary about the making of the first Staff Benda Bilili album.
Most of the band members are paraplegic due to childhood polio. The shelter for the disabled
burned down during the first attempt at recording them and that delayed things for over
a year. God bless the French dudes who kept on until it was done.

One amazing thing to see is the transformation of a little street kid, playing a one string homemade
instrument, that the band took under it's wing.

Watch them go from practicing on the grounds at the Kinshasa zoo, to touring Europe and Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJX2GdYr054

Worth watching