Talk:Konono Nº1

Date of Formation
The article stated that the band was formed around 1980, but it had to have been earlier than that. The group appears on Zaire: Musiques Urbaines Kinshasa, a 1978 album released by ORTF's Radio France's Ocora label (C 559007). They are fully credited as "Orchestre Tout Puissant Likembe Konono No. 1," one of four groups on the album (Konono's track is "Mungua-Muanga"). Unfortunately I do no have a copy of the album's liner notes to check any further details. I haven't looked at the external links to see what dates they provide. - Gyrofrog (talk) 04:42, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * This link has some more information about the album, as cataloged by the University of Texas library (where I originally found this). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:01, 17 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I've added this information to the article but I'm sure it could use some copyediting (in particular, I'm not sure my attempt at translating the long French name was correct). If no one beats me to it, tomorrow (hopefully) I'll try and cobble together a discography. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:34, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

The album (and the band's site) mention that the group was formed in the 1970s, although no exact date is given. The-bus 15:18, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * According the the Guardian ref band was formed in 1966.Jonpatterns (talk) 16:50, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Correct orthography
I believe that the correct orthography for this band should be "Konono Nº1", where the "º" character is the masculine ordinal indicator (Unicode: U+00BA, IRI-encoded: %C2%BA), rather than a degree sign (Unicode: U+00B0, IRI-encoded: %C2%B0). An alternative would be to use the numero sign (Unicode:U+2116, IRI-encoded: %E2%84%96): I'll make this a redirect. -- The Anome 09:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Gah. Their record company uses (as copied from their website http://www.crammed.be/konono/) "KONONO N°1", with a degree sign, as does their MySpace page. Moving back. -- The Anome 09:55, 10 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Back full circle to original name. Well, at least I got some redirects made. -- The Anome 10:07, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome...
I saw a link to Zombocom at the bottom that said "The most comprehensive guide to Zombo", is it vandalism?

64.163.222.115 00:39, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Moved from article
I'm moving the following comments from the article to the talk page. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:11, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

"my name is Makiadi francisco, ex musician of this band konono n1, i joined this band in early 70's played conga. Then in the middle of 70's mr Mingiedi the founder of this group, saw that i had a talent to learn likembe, then he start teaching me in his home in Kimbaseke district in Kinshasa then i became a lead player after Mr Mingiedi, therefore until 1986 my parent dicide that i have to move along with them in our Original land which is Angola, after that move those who are the ancient musician of this band left the band as well so the only original musician left at this band are only (4) 1-Mingiedi 2-Augustin 3-Menga 4-Makonda this are the original player remain of this band, me after moving to Angola i exile to England UK due to civil war was in my country Angola since then i live in London i which them lucky to continue konono n1. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.209.229 (talk • contribs) 19:47, 19 June 2012"
 * Would be good to reference and copy edit to article.Jonpatterns (talk) 16:50, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Possible sources
The Afropop has more articles on Congotronics which may be useful, including-

http://www.afropop.org/2508/vincent-kenis/

Jonpatterns (talk) 16:50, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

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