David Dalle
Thursday October 19th, 2017 with David Dalle
Tribute to Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi of Kinshasha's Konono No. 1. New music from Constantinople and Kamancello, Andras Schiff and Bach and more.

Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi, 2nd generation leader of Kinshasha's Konono No. 1 died this week. In 2009 he took over from his father Mingiedi Mawangu who founded the group in the 1960's. They were Bazombo musicians from southeast DRC who migrated to Kinshasha. Because urban Kinshasha was an extremely noisy environment, they developed home made amplification solutions for their traditional instruments, particularly the Likembe thumb piano. The amplification methods introduced a significant amount of distortion and this actually became part of their sound. They exploded into global music consiousness in 2004 with their debut international release and have continued to be a popular touring group. Their sound is a fantastic experimental-sounding African wall-of-noise. The group will continue with the 3rd generation Makonda who takes the lead after the death of his father. We will also hear some new music from Constantinople, with two members of the group, leader Kiya Tabassian and Didem Basar in a collaboration with the Belgian duo Belem comprised of accordionist Didier Laloy and cellist Kathy Adam. More astonishing music from Toronto duo Kamancello; Cris Derksen,Frank Horvat, Andras Schiff and Bach.