On Mon, November 7, 2005 6:55 pm, dave cronin wrote: > So I obviously didn't catch Recloose, but did see > Konoko No. 1 at the Jazz Fest last night, and they > were totally incredible and quite techno-relevant, > actually. There was a drummer on a kit, a guy on big > hand-drums playing the bass pulse, 3 guys on the crazy > home-made electric thumb pianos (into Fender amps, > with distortion), a cow-bell/clave and a couple > vocalist/dancers. > > The beats were in a very minimal polyrhythmic afro > style-- stripped-down and repetitive (in a good way), > with a lot of nuance in the timing and phasing. A > couple of the songs were over 30 minutes. > > The thumb-piano sounds reminded me a lot of the the > afro side of Heiroglypic Being and the whole thing was > totally rockin. Check them if you can-- underground > sounds from the Congo.
sounds hot. theyre coming to pittsburgh later on this month or early december i think, ill be going for sure as will a couple other pgh based subscribers to this list. tom
