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Original Roots: Kongo Dia Ntotila
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Description
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Live Music
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Free
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Brick Lane
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Jazz
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Over 18
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Fri, 21st Jun 2019 @ 20:00 - 1:30
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20:00 - 01:30
Join us for Original Roots on Fridays, this week we welcome the exceptional Kongo Dia Ntotila to the living room...
To secure a table for the show, book in for dinner at www.91livingroom.com/bookings
Kongo Dia Ntotila's sound is a blend of Africa's finest dance music styles, revived, modernised, and seamlessly fused with a neat dose of jazz. The band draw on a breadth of African rhythmic and sonic traditions, with strong influences of Congolese rumba and the sunshine sounds of seben guitar. It is pure Afro-joy: dance-inducing beats, polyrhythmic guitars, grooving bass, soaring brass, and beautiful harmonic vocals.
The band comprises UK jazz players John Kelly (guitar), Will Scott (saxophone) and Mike Soper (trumpet); with Mbouta Kissangwa (drums), Mulele Matondo (bass), and Diala Sakuba (rhythm guitar) all originally from Kinshasa, DRC. They have been described by Tom Robinson as "musicians of the very very highest standard...totally authentic - as good as anything you get coming out of Africa," while Max Reinhardt has called band leader, Mulele, "a visionary bassist".
The first founding of the band was around 2008/9 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, where Mulele was living while studying at Leeds College of Music. John turned out to be his jazz guitar tutor, and lessons became musical exchanges as Mulele shared the intricate patterns of sebene guitar. Together with a Congolese singer, they wrote material towards their first album released in 2012. Seben Steps to Heaven featured Central African dance floor riffs and lively Congolese vocals.
Ten years later, now London-based, the band just signed to Pussyfoot records, and have a second album out May 2019. The new 10-track record 360° brings the brass to the forefront of the musical conversation and a new direction to the KDN sound since their more vocal-heavy first release.
Championed by BBC DJs Tom Robinson and Max Reinhardt, Kongo Dia Ntotila have featured on BBC Introducing, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 3 and most recently on BBC 6 Music, where they played a live session on the Tom Robinson Show. Tom has described the music as "a great combination of sophistication, energy, musicianship and pure life-affirming spiritual uplift!" While Max Reinhardt (BBC3) says of Kongo Dia Ntotila live shows: "Wherever they go they bring a raucously joyful party with them."
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Ninety One, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL
Area
Brick Lane
Nearest Station
Shoreditch High Street (Rail)
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1. The ticket holder voluntarily assumes all risks and danger incidental to the event for which the ticket is issued, whether occurring prior, during or after the event. The ticket holder voluntarily agrees that the management, venue, event participants, DesignMyNight (WFL Media Ltd) and all of their respective agents, officers, directors, owners and employers are expressly released by the ticket holder from any claims arising from such causes.
2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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