Track Of The Day: KOKOKO! - Azo Toke

Wildly rhythmic Congolese sounds and banging dance beats. Now signed to Transgressive Records, KOKOKO! are a collective born in Kinshasa, consisting of musical instrument inventors from the Ngwaka area, electronic producer débruit, vocalist Makara Bianko (aka the Lingwala devil) and his dancers from the Lingwala neighbourhood. The members of the band create instruments from up-cycled materials including engine parts, typewriters and plastic bottles.

According to the band, the brilliantly mental 'Azo Toke' features “the sounds from the contact of a thumb on an audio wire, a radio between two stations used as a snare, rolling claps, and an electric Likembe”.

The track comes from the recent 'Liboso' EP, which follows on from 2018's Tokoliana and Tongos’a EPs. The group’s debut album is due for release in summer 2019.