Kokoko - FongolaOn the streets of Kinshasa, Africa's 3rd largest capital city, a radical new scene is thriving amongst the political instability. Fongola is the highly anticipated debut album from Congolese collective Kokoko!. They're best known for creating a contemporary aesthetic all their own by rewiring and upcycling materials such as metal, cans, engine parts and plastic containers into vital and resonant dance music. Kokoko!'s distorted fast rhythms and

an eight-song album

The British musician/singer Imogen Heap contributes powerful vocals to the Muddy Water tune Rollin' and Tumblin'

These sides were produced by fellow Norfolk native Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams and were recorded at 919 Sound Studios in Philadelphia

or the leader's poised

a campaign of awe-inspiring synergy that starts to crack when Shorter meets a portrait artist (model Jean Shrimpton

This album is one of the rare live recordings from that time

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which premiered in July via REVOLVER Magazine

the concerto is an important contribution to Norwegian music in general and to the oboe repertoire in particular

Hippa to da Hoppa"

Self-produced in Ixtapa

For the first time on the MPHIL label