Talk:Konono N°1

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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)