In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic
- Kasai Allstars
- Band Name: Kasai Allstars
- Record Label: Crammed Disc
- Release Date: Jul 15, 2008
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- Summary: The latest album for the supergroup of 25 musicians from the Democratic Republic of the Congo features both traditional and contemporary instruments.
- Record Label: Crammed Disc
- Genre(s): World
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The music is neither bastardized nor precious, just a riveting reflection of the ongoing allure and paradox that is the Congo.
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The result is even more appealing than Konono, drawing on likembes, the buzzing and drum-like tam tam, electric guitars, and half a dozen vocalists to create hypnotic, rich, complex polyrhythmic wonders.
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60In their multi-ethnic make-up, the face-painted, twenty-something strong Allstars chant a slightly more devolved game than fellow marimba manglers Konono No.1, but the cumulative effect is similar, a sustained concussion of sound, a kind of sonic vertigo that subverts the cliché of Congo as perpetual victim.
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