Congotronics International share two new tracks from debut LP ten years in the making
thefader.comCongotronics International will release their long-awaited debut LP Where's the One on April 29. Today, after sharing the album's first three offerings — "Banza Banza," "Beyond the 7th Bend," and the title cut — over the course of the past two months, they're premiering the album's fourth and fifth singles, "Mulume/Change" and “Bombo & Stifflets” with The FADER.
Listen to the new songs, and read our interview with six of the international super group's 19 musicians and the project's curator Marc Hollander below.
Where's the One's roots run back to the late aughts, when Belgian indie label Crammed Discs began releasing the music of Congolese rockers, particularly Konono Nº1 and Kasai Allstars, in the U.S.
and Europe. Artists from both sides of the Atlantic began to take note, and in 2010, the imprint released a 26-track tribute album titled Tradi-Mods vs.
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