{"id":42566,"date":"2017-10-05T16:37:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/congolese-electronic-music-collective-kokoko-shares-a-crazy-debut-music-video\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:38:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:38:34","slug":"congolese-electronic-music-collective-kokoko-shares-a-crazy-debut-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/congolese-electronic-music-collective-kokoko-shares-a-crazy-debut-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Congolese electronic music collective KOKOKO! shares a crazy debut music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"article-title entry-title pam-featured-content\" ><span class=\"pam-featured-content\"  style=\"color: #333333;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9343 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0010273214_10-1024x777.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0010273214_10-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0010273214_10-1024x777-759x576.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0010273214_10-1024x777-1010x766.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0010273214_10-1024x777-661x502.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0010273214_10-1024x777-465x353.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/0010273214_10-1024x777-375x285.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3>Do-it-yourselfer Kinshasa&#8217;s musicians KOKOKO! unveils &#8216;Tokoliana&#8217; video &#8211; main title of their first EP released in June 2017.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Originally posted by <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.zone\/en\/congolese-electronic-music-collective-kokoko-shares-tokoliana-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prospect<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The alternative music scene in Kinshasa never ceases to surprise us with it\u2019s constant dabbling and experimenting of merging techno rhythms, rudimentary instruments and street music together, quite the odd combination really.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">KOKOKO\u00a0teamed up with French producer\u00a0D\u00e9bruit\u00a0through a musical collaboration project called Africa Express,\u00a0 which has now resulted in them going international.\u00a0 The band toured England, Germany, Belgium and France to share its explosive trance like music to the European public and have just recently shared a wonderful clip for \u2018Tokoliana\u2018.(Konono No. 1, Mbongwana Star, Staff Benda Bilili etc.)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><em>Listen to our \u2018afro + electro\u2019 playlist on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/panafricanmusic\/playlist\/38btMIbD4lYEsPbMrN9Bjz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deezer.com\/en\/playlist\/3244743002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">They call their sound \u201ctekno kintueni\u201d or \u201czagu\u00e9\u201d in Lingala, the\u00a0lingua franca\u00a0of the DRC, a sound they say is inspired by the everyday sounds around town and the different villages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Watch <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4JQe2zwXgkY&amp;index=2&amp;list=PLi5Wq55_9apO5wLMOW0Y3hs9v0C0BPlI6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Tokoliana&#8217;<\/a> below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4JQe2zwXgkY?list=PLi5Wq55_9apO5wLMOW0Y3hs9v0C0BPlI6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9338\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KOKOKO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KOKOKO.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KOKOKO-759x427.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KOKOKO-1010x568.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KOKOKO-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KOKOKO-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KOKOKO-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KOKOKO-375x211.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do-it-yourselfer Kinshasa&#8217;s musicians KOKOKO! unveils &#8216;Tokoliana&#8217; video &#8211; main title of their first EP released in June 2017. Originally posted by Prospect The alternative music scene in Kinshasa never ceases to surprise us with it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42566"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42566"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}