{"id":41312,"date":"2019-10-28T12:58:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/awesome-tapes-from-africa-to-release-album-from-antoinette-konan-the-queen-of-the-ahoko\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:33:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:33:55","slug":"awesome-tapes-from-africa-antoinette-konan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/awesome-tapes-from-africa-antoinette-konan\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Tapes From Africa to release album from Antoinette Konan, the Queen of the Ahoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31715 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Antoinette Konan photo\" width=\"685\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-photo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-photo-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-photo-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Awesome Tapes From Africa<\/span>\u00a0reissues visionary Antoinette Konan\u2019s eponymous album.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Known as the \u201cQueen of the Ahoko\u201d among Ivorians, Konan single-handedly put the central-Ivorian instrument on the map when she gave it a 20th-century re-introduction. The three-piece wooden idiophone is handmade from a thin, ribbed, flexible stick, against which a smaller chunk of wood is rhythmically scraped.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3069278286\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=4283783236\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoinettekonan.bandcamp.com\/album\/antoinette-konan\">Antoinette Konan by Antoinette Konan<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Released in 1986,\u00a0her eponymous album is a veritable UFO of instrumental force and contemporary pop sensibility landing in a boiling pot of diverse, creative characters inhabiting Abidjan, Ivory Coast.\u00a0Despite the ahoko&#8217;s diminutive appearance, Konan and her powerful voice have remained at the forefront of Ivorian music for decades now, in an extremely diverse country\u00a0with a competitive<span class=\"bcTruncateMore\">, internationally-recognized music industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Antoinette Konan<\/em>, out November 22nd <span style=\"color: #333333;\">via <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/awesome-tapes-from-africa\/\">Awesome Tapes From Africa<\/a>. Discover the\u00a0album cover below and pre-order it <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/antoinettekonan.bandcamp.com\/album\/antoinette-konan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31714\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan.jpg\" alt=\"Antoinette Konan album\" width=\"679\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Antoinette-Konan-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome Tapes From Africa\u00a0reissues visionary Antoinette Konan\u2019s eponymous album. Known as the \u201cQueen of the Ahoko\u201d among Ivorians, Konan single-handedly put the central-Ivorian instrument on the map when she gave it a 20th-century re-introduction. 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