Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa

Mbongwana Star's From Kinshasa is a new album of Congolese music that bears little resemblance to more traditional styles.  Given this tossing away of or subversion of convention the group bears something in common with Konono no. 1 beyond both being literally from Kinshasa in the Democratic Rebublic of Congo.  Both groups retain some traditional instrumentation, for Konono it's the thumb piano and for Mbongwana Star it's the souskous guitars.  The tracks on Kinshasa have a warp and pull all there own pulling in threads of psychedelia, drone, post-punk and noise.  One of the stronger tracks is the album closer 1 Million C'est Quoi but their one-track collaboration with Konono no. 1 Malekayi is just as fine.