Congotronics
- 艺人
- Konono Nº1
- 语种
- 其他
- 厂牌
- Crammed Discs
- 发行时间
- 2005年09月27日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Steve Leggett
This amazing record is the product of utility, coincidence, and accidental discovery as much as it is a product of academic deliberation, and it manages to sound old and traditional even as it is refreshingly (even radically) new and avant-garde. Konono No. 1 was formed in the 1980s by a group of Bazombo musicians, dancers, and singers from the Democratic Republic of Congo to play traditional likembe (thumb piano) music in the streets. They soon discovered, though, that they needed amplification to be heard and -- this is where the story of this album really begins -- they took a DIY and utilitarian approach by building their own amplification systems out of junked car parts, magnets, and other flotsam. Once assembled, the system produced a huge hum that Konono No. 1 embraced as part of the sound of the group. At the center of everything were three amped-up thumb pianos tuned to three different registers, and coupled with all manner of pots, pans, whistles, and brake drum snares for percussion and with the vocals blasting through megaphones, all embedded in the huge buzz and hum of the homemade PA system, the group accidentally created a sound that was at once both ancient and traditional and yet eerily akin to experimental 21st century electronica. Congotronics is Konono's second album (the first was a live outing entitled Lubuaku), and while it was ostensibly recorded in a studio setting, it sounds wonderfully live and immediate, as if the dozen members of the group were standing on a busy street corner like some Congolese version of a second-line Mardi Gras band, only with thumb pianos instead of horns. Musical themes emerge and reemerge in the various tracks, and what sounds initially chaotic and random is revealed to be nothing of the sort, giving the whole album the feel of a ragged, joyous suite. Part traditional, part African rhumba, part smart avant-garde electronica, Congotronics is the sound of an urban junkyard band simultaneously weaving the past and the future into one amazingly coherent structure, and not only that, you can dance to it. This is the band Tom Waits has been looking for all his life.
最新简评（共5条）
- @灰(生命已经过期)：✔
- @ありがとう(お休み)：Konono N°1在排练房中一次性录完了首张专辑的曲目，这张专辑被命名为《Congotronics》，于2004年，由专注世界音乐、电子和摇滚乐的比利时独立厂牌Crammed Discs发行。在最初的世界音乐热潮渐渐消退的时候，这张专辑在西方世界引起了轰动。《Congotronics》的曲目能将听众直接拽至金沙萨的街头——适合舞蹈的激烈节奏，远近错落的合声和不时加入的口哨声和掌声，一片尘土飞扬的闹市景象立马出现在眼前。 来源：【明日音乐节】
- @菠萝柚：Congotronics这张专辑的人声，是黑非洲传统的呼唤式齐唱式，交互性很强。在我看来整张专辑几乎是一种音景（soundscape）的制作方法。丰富的节奏交融在一起让你非常想扭动，多个电声拇指琴带来的亮色与空灵像是波浪一样，电吉他的各种碎片，密集的电子鼓提供的沉稳低音，还有用哨子模仿出的街头乐感——以及几乎处理成街头声音采样的人声，听下来画面感非常强，又倍感真实。它既提供了一种对金沙萨浓郁热烈色彩的想象空间，又因为密集的电声和粗糙遥远的人声而具有了超越感，你甚至可以说后现代或带有很强的工业未来感。 载自 土地与歌
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- @弗洛伊德：简陋的乐器造就出完美的音乐。