The album, titled Lubuaku, was recorded live in Vera, Groningen, during the band's tour with The Ex. Since this tour The Ex has regularly performed one of Konono N✡'s songs live, appearing on The Ex albums Turn (2004) and Enormous Door (2013) as "Theme From Konono." In 2004 The Ex's guitarist Terrie Hessels released a live recording of a Konono N✡ performance on his label Terp records. Konono N✡ first played outside of Africa in 2003 when they toured the Netherlands with Dutch band The Ex. Since the release of this early recording, Konono N✡ has influenced many other Congolese popular musicians and groups. In November 1978 the ensemble called Orchestre Tout Puissant Likembe Konono N✡ (OR “All-Powerful Likembe Orchestra Konono N✡”) recorded one track, "Mungua-Muanga," for the compilation album Zaire: Musiques Urbaines a Kinshasa. For his likembé ensemble, he adapted Zombo ritual music that was originally played by an ensemble of horns made from elephant tusks. Mawangu was a member of the Zombo (or Bazombo) ethnic group, whose homeland is in Maquela do Zombo, located in Uíge Province of Angola, near the border with DR Congo. The group was formed in 1966 by Mingiedi Mawangu, a likembé player and truck driver. The group eventually headquartered themselves in the city of Kinshasa in the DRC. Konono N✡ originally came from the Kongo or Bacongo region that spans parts of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola. Konono N✡ de Mingiedi "T.P." (short for tout puissant, or "all powerful") is an homage to the band of the legendary Congolese musician Franco, which was called TP OK Jazz.
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The group's full name, as seen on the banner in its music video, is L'orchestre folklorique T.P. Konono N✡ released the album Assume Crash Position in 2010, followed by Konono N✡ Meets Batida (2016), a collaboration between Konono N✡ and the musician Batida, also known as Pedro Coquenão. They collaborated with Björk for a song on her 2007 album Volta, and with Herbie Hancock for a song on his 2010 album The Imagine Project. Appealing to fans of rock and electronic music, they played at the Eurockéennes festival in France the following year. Konono N✡ achieved international recognition around 2004, with the release of their album Congotronics through the Crammed Discs record label. The genre of the band's music has been characterized as difficult to classify the group themselves have classified their music under the labels of "tradi-modern" and "Congotronics". The group's amplification equipment is equally rudimentary, including a microphone carved out of wood fitted with a magnet from an automobile alternator and a gigantic horn-shaped amplifier. They are known for their DIY aesthetic, combining electric likembé (a traditional instrument similar to the mbira) with vocals, dancers, and percussion instruments that are made out of items salvaged from a junkyard. Konono N✡ is a musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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