#Kondi Band

[trevlad-sounds]

Invisible Waves 27.

07.06.2024

Intro 00:00 36-Echo Diffusion 00:08 Chapter 1 03:23 Takahiro Mukai-#537 08:33 REVBJELDE-THIRD ON A WIRE 13:12 Chapter 2 16:28 Tycho-Phantom 23:33 Sleep Underwriter-Ninth 28:12 Chapter 3 32:27 Sweatson Klank,Kondi Band-Money Face – Instrumental 35:03 Dub Atomica (Ian Boddy & Nigel Mullaney)-Rhodeo 39:17 Chapter 4 46:51 Floating World Pictures with Ocean Moon-Hourglass Labyrinth 51:23

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"Money Face - Klank's Amapiano Re Rub" by Sweatson Klank, Kondi Band https://ift.tt/c86EGOi

[luvwich]

🎧 On repeat...

🏷️ tagged by @orangekittyenergy ! thank you for the tag 💞

shuffle your on repeat playlist 10 times and post the results

most of these are from fic playlists i've made, since that's my main use of spotify :3 posting em as youtube links, with spotify embeds under da cut~

▶️ junglepussy - trader joe ▶️ leikeli47 - secret service ▶️ marina p & stand high patrol - landlord ▶️ the slits - i heard it through the grapevine ▶️ lcd soundsystem - losing my edge ▶️ nina simone - sinnerman ▶️ sault - red lights ▶️ the national - baby we'll be fine ▶️ kondi band - yeanoh ▶️ sl2 - on a ragga tip '92

no-presh tags: @baublekute @dani-the-goblin @fly-amanitaa @ghostoffuturespast @merge-conflict @theviridianbunny @wanderingaldecaldo 👂

[dustedmagazine]

Kondi Band — We Famous (Strut)

We Famous by The Kondi Band

This second outing from Sierra Leonian thumb piano master Sorie Kondi and DJ Chef Boima, continues to explore the intersection of traditional rhythms and Western dance beats. These cuts emphasize the hypnotic, multi-tonal syncopations of the Kondi, a mbira-like instrument from Sierra Leone, and the elemental vocals of a pre-electric tradition, yet present them within the context of pulsing electronics. Critically, though, the context never overwhelms the music, just updates it a bit and puts it in sharper focus.

The disc opens the brief “We Famous,” setting the groundwork with all extraneous elements stripped back. We hear just the staccato patter of kondi paired with deep-voiced call and response. A piano joins soon after, echoing the complex patterns of percussive melody and Westernizing the sound just a touch. “Shake Your Tumba” builds on this foundation, but dials up the tension with a glitchy beat and club-worthy echoes. The tumba, whatever it is, feels fully shaken.

Two singles feature guest singers, an addition which does haul Kondi Band’s aesthetic into the 21st century. Mariama Jalloh trills and flutes and melisma-lizes like a modern pop diva against pre-modern drone and syncopation in “She Doesn’t Love You.” “It’s God’s World” thumps with resounding momentum, supplied by LA musician and producer Sweatson Klank.

I liked Kondi Band’s mystical qualities on the first full-length, Salone, of which I wrote, “This combination of constant kinetic movement and sustained vocals gives the music a curious aura of serenity in flux.” We Famous feels a bit more hedonistic, a bit more removed from the older elements. And yet, it is very good at capturing the radiant runs of kondi, the dusky interplay of men’s voices engaged in singing discourse.  “Fatou,” especially, captures the exotic propulsion, the communal celebratory-ness that this band is capable of, embellishing it only slightly with synth blasts.

There’s no question that people dance to this music, whether in its original, African form, or here, slightly altered by a member of the African diaspora. It’s a bit of a hybrid, but authentic in its own way to two traditions, meeting not seamlessly, but in pursuit of the same body-moving objectives.

Jennifer Kelly

[skaphander]

 Kondi Band - Titi Dem Too Service 

[jssc007]

Absolute banger!

[indieshuffle]

Kondi Band - It's God's World (So Don't Be Bad) (Ft. Sweatson Klank) https://ift.tt/3zgVyCp

[rapseyrecommends]

The Lot Radio 11/16/20 by Ayanna Heaven Eternal gratitude to @thelotradio for having me! Tracklist: "Time (You and I)" Khruangbin "Yeanoh (Powe Hand Blingabe)" Kondi Band "Chui Nui" Kaidi Tatham "Maracas Bay Boogie" Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band "Agua Fria" The Bongo Hop Feat. Laurene P Magnani "Sorriso de Gabriela" Wal Sant'ana "Faded Lady" The SSO Orchestra "I love You More" Rene & Angela "Hey Brother (Do Unto Others)" The Family Daptone "Vida De Mi Alma" Ralph Weeks "Street Talkin'" Slick Rick feat. Outkast "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" Busta Rhymes "No Arguments (Hip Hop Mix)" Bounty Killer "Tom's Diner" Suzanne Vega "Canary" Popcaan "Essence" WizKid "Slow Down (P2J Remix)" Skip Marley feat. HER "Wave (Feat. Kali Uchis) (Kabaka Pyramid Remix)" Major Lazer "In Bloom" Protoje "Biggest Dub" Lila Ike "Maxine" Josey Wales "Queen of the Minstrel" Cornel Campbell "Trick In the Book" Cornel Capbell "Love Light" Dennis Brown "Milk And Honey" In Crowd "Mango Walk" In Crowd "Give A Little Love" Johnny Osbourne "Mr. Neverman" Zia Benjamin & RoryStoneLove "Sweet Sensation" Jesse Royal "Bonnie & Shyne" Shyne "Gettin' Money" Junior M.A.F.I.A. "Don't Look Any Further" Dennis Edwards "I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun" Minnie Riperton "Turn Me Up Some (Instrumental)" J Dilla / Busta Rhymes "Bonita Applebum (Hootie Remix)" A Tribe Called Quest "Don't Let It Go to Your Head" Black Harmony "Be Thankful for What You Got" One Blood "Space Lady" Lonnie Liston Smith "The Pathways of Our Lives" Mark Barrott "Sun Goddess" Yesterday's New Quintet "Too High" Yesterday's New Quintet "Sonora (Feat. Nidia Gongora)" The Bongo Hop "Serotonin (Umoja Remix)" Oby Nine "Gentle Smiles (Saxy)" Gary Bartz "Winding Roads" Gary Bartz "Yegle Nesh" Hailu Mergia "Wede Harer Guzo" Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band "The Traveller (Part 2)" Haggis Horns

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The Kondi Band - Salone

Strut present an inspired new Afro-electronic project for June 2017, Kondi Band, a collaboration between Sierra Leonean kondi (thumb piano) player Sorie Kondi and US producer / DJ Chief Boima, who himself has Sierra Leonean roots. The project was spawned after Boima happened upon an online video of one of Sorie’s original tracks, ‘Without Money No Family’, which he then remixed. After a Kickstarter campaign, Sorie travelled to the US to play a series of gigs with Boima and began recording new material. “Sorie Kondi is a blind musician with a will to thrive like no person I have met before,” explains Boima. “This album forges a direct link between techno born in the black cities of the American Mid-West, where I grew up, and roots African music.”

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tagged by @rainbowshawn 🥰🥰🥰

name: ellen

zodiac: libra

favorite musicians/bands: shawn mendes (obviously), niall horan, normani, taylor swift, dua lipa, little mix, the 1975, hozier, etc.

favorite sports team: i genuinely hate most types of sport lmao so idk. i watch a lot of road cycling but you rarely have favorite teams in that. i just cheer for the danes shsjsk

other blogs: i have @danisnotonniall which, despite its name, is no longer a dan howell and niall horan stan blog. it's basically just where i reblog funny shit and stuff about politics

do i get asks: yes. i feel like i delete 50% of them at this point tho shsjsk

how many blogs do i follow: 549 lol

what i’m wearing: an old, black high school hoodie and some black sweatpants. all black basically (except for my bra lmao)

dream vacation: i basically got to go on my dream vacation last year when i went to rome and pompeii. but hmm i'd like to go to malta with my friends again

dream car: honestly... just something like a nissan leaf lmao

favorite food: italian or indian

drink of choice: if it's non-alcoholic, then a danish soda called faxe kondi or just some peach juice. if we're talking alcohol, just a plain gin & tonic or a screwdriver

languages: danish and english

celebrity crush: shawn mendes 🤦‍♀️ but then also trevor noah, niall horan and john boyega. and oh! also a lot of women dhsjsj too many to name

random fact: i have something called trichotillomania which means i obsessively pull out hair from my body. and when i was a kid, it was so bad that i had a bald spot on my head smh. it's not quite as bad now, don't worry dhsksks

tagging: @shawnsmusical @smallerinfinities @sauveteen @nervousroses @fallinharry (and now i can't remember any more)

[twistedsoulmusic]

The Kondi Band - Titi Dem Too Service

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“Y’Alimamy (Chief Boima Remix)” - Kondi Band

[dustedmagazine]

Kondi Band — Salone (Strut)

Salone by The Kondi Band

The kondi is the Sierra Leonian version of a thumb piano, similar to the mbira of Nigeria, the Congo and Zimbabwe and the kalimba of the Caribbean. Like all these iterations, it has a wooden base studded with metallic tines which are plucked and struck to elicit a soft percussive sound pitched somewhere between a xylophone and a piano.

Sorie Kondi, who takes his name from the instrument, is an acknowledged master of the kondi in Sierra Leone, but it’s unlikely we’d know much about him, except that Sierra Leonean-American DJ, producer, and writer Boima Tucker took an interest in his haunting, hallucinatory sound and combined it his own electronic aesthetic, first through a late aughts remix of a track called “No Money, No Family” (included on this disc), earlier this year in an EP called Belle Wahalla and now, finally, in a full-length album.

Kondi Band, then, is a cross-generational collaboration that splices the sparest, most acoustic traditions of West Africa with subtle synth embellishments and glitch-y beats. To Boima’s credit, the music brings Sorie Kondi to the forefront and leaves a lot of air and space around him. You may not even notice the blots of synth, the pulse of bass-y club rhythm on the first or second time through. What you hear, mainly, is how cleanly and clearly the sound of the kondi reverberates, how it is allowed to be exactly what it is but more so.

The kondi is half rhythm instrument and half melodic carrier, producing syncopated tonal cadences that push gently, insistently forward. Over this, Sorie Kondi sings, stretching out hypnotic croons over long intervals, so that the song seems to drift in from a great distance, hover briefly in front of the listener, and then move slowly off. This combination of constant kinetic movement and sustained vocals gives the music a curious aura of serenity in flux.

Salone includes two cuts from the earlier EP, the relatively spare “Yeanoh (Powe Handa Blingabe)” and the more elaborately arranged ���Belle Wahalla,” as well a clutch of new tunes which, at a guess (I don’t speak krio), deal with women, work, art, survival and struggle. Dreamy “Thank You Mama,” finds a calm otherworldliness in tangled percussive cadences and blaring notes of synthesizer, while “Titi Dem Too Service” picks up the pace in a shimmering, glitch-y stop-stepping barrage of kondi notes that is hedonistic and head-expanding at the same time. (It might remind you of Konono No. 1.)  

A couple of remixes provide an opportunity for further expansion of the Kondi Band sound. The LV remix of “Thologolobea,” lays in the hiss of high hat, the slouching back beat of drum kit, as well as a winding thread of saxophone. It is the most overtly funky track on the album. “Y'alimamy (Chief Boima Remix)” is barer, a subliminal moan of sub-bass framing the call-and-response interplay, a bit of vibrating keyboard flaring up in the corners, but mostly leaving Kondi Band to its own devices.

Boima presents Kondi Band, and Sorie Kondi, in a way that is neither dustily archival nor distractingly fusion-y. Instead he puts this very traditional sound in a clear, clean, well-lit space and italicizes it, rather than smothering it with space-age beats and sounds. Nicely done.

Jennifer Kelly 

[especias]

Kondi Band, es una colaboración entre el mùsico de Sierra Leona Sorie Kondi y el productor y DJ estadounidense Boima, quien también tiene raíces en Sierra Leona. El proyecto surgió después de que Boima apareciera en un video online de una de las canciones originales de Sorie, "Without Money No Family", que luego remezcló. Después de una campaña de Kickstarter, Sorie viajó a los EE.UU. para tocar en una serie de conciertos con Boima y comenzó a grabar nuevo material. "Este álbum forja un vínculo directo entre el techno nacido en las ciudades negras del Mid-West americano, donde crecì, y las raíces de música africana".

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Last winter mix-Click on Fireside#2 to listen

Melt Yourself Down ‘Dot to Dot’ from Last Evenings On Earth (The Leaf Label)

The Blessing ‘Can’t believe in faith’ from All Is Yes (Cake/Candid Records)

Les Tambours de Brazza ‘Cameleon’ from Kongo (Buda Musique)

Kondi Band ‘Without Money, No Family (Chief Boima Remix)’ from Salone (Strut Records)

Islamic Diggers ‘William Burroughs don’t play guitar’ from 10% File under Burroughs (Sub Rosa/DutchEast India Trading)

Dadawah ‘Run Come Rally’ from Peace and Love(Wild Flower)

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Kondi Band – We Famous (2021)

“Kondi Band finds, or maybe forges, the link between hand-hewn folk music and modern electronic music. Led by Sierra Leone’s Sorie Kondi playing a custom-build 15-pin lamellophone called the ‘kondi,’ the band is a collaboration with producers Chief Boima and Will LV, based in Los Angeles and London respectively. But Kondi (the man) and kondi (the instrument) are unmistakably the star of Kondi (the band). The modern production is always graciously at service to Kondi’s beautiful voice, and rhythmic playing. ...”

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