Congotronics is, to these ears, some of the most intriguing and exciting music on the planet. "Not for the faint-hearted" says the sleeve of Beware the Fetish. This two-CD set is the fifth in a series and the second from Kasai Allstars, a Kinshasa collective drawn from five different ethnic groups. The music is essentially traditional – a chatter of voices, xylophones, slit-drums and buzzy percussion, but augmented with electric guitar and amplified thumb-pianos. The themes are tribal wisdom, social advice, magic and sorcery. The remarkable mingling of tradition with hyperactive amplified modernity creates a warping of space and time which may, when played loud, alter your reality and compel you to dance! Let yourself go and these mesmeric, ever-shifting layers of rhythm, urged on with shouts and chants, will will work its spell. crammed.be

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