 | From Single of the Day: “My immediate feeling is the sense of fun you hear in the music. It’s like one big party going on. The lyrics have a sense of humor to them. Which I appreciate…”Read article. |
| | From: Undiscovered Radio Network (an indie radio show that airs on a bunch of radio stations around the US). Kongos – (self-titled) 2007 (no label) Murphy’s pick: “The Way” Kongos doesn’t look like rockers, and their music doesn’t quite sound like normal rock. Makes sense [...] |
| | Get Out Magazine names ‘KONGOS’ one the top 10 local albums of 2007. “Kongos,” Kongos. The long-awaited full-length disc from this band of Paradise Valley brothers (Jesse, Dylan, John J. and Daniel) didn’t disappoint, mixing artful prog-rock instrumentation with pop song structures. A single from [...] |
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| Band of brothers By: Nicki Escudero Description: KONGOS sound spans continents The members of progressive rock band KONGOS have music in their blood–the four brothers’ dad is John Kongos, a singer-songwriter who had hits in both South Africa and all over Europe in the 1960s [...] |
| | KONGOS Band of Brothers Kim Milbrandt “Our music is better than it sounds.” Not only does this band have the incredible sound to back this claim up but they also have a great sense of humor stemmed from true humble musicianship. The band Kongos is [...] |
| | From Music-Critic.com Kongos Pop label: No label released: 01.16.07 our score: 4 out of 5.0 Rockin by: Tim Wardyn Talk about a cultured band of brothers. John J, Jesse, Dylan and Daniel Kongos, of the band Kongos (ironic, huh?) grew up in London, South Africa [...] |
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| Review from British music site The-Mag.co.uk This is certainly a family album. Not only does every member of the band bear the last name Kongos, but all production and engineering credits go to them as well. This band have built a burgeoning reputation recently and [...] |
| | Valley band Kongos is made up of four brothers, raised in England and South Africa, who blend a love of Beatle-esque pop, jazz, progressive rock and electronic music into their distinctive sound.Brandon Quester Special to Get Out Local spotlight: Kongos deftly blends influences for a [...] |
| | By Robert Silverstein for Twentieth Century Guitar Speaking of glaring omissions from the Elektra box, 36 years ago, London-based John Kongos released one of that label’s most illustrious progressive pop imports. Entitled Kongos, that ’71 John Kongos album on Elektra featured amazing production of Gus [...] |
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| Write-up for Phoenix New Times Summer Of Sound concert: Kongos It took all of 22 seconds of the Kongos’ self-released EP to realize they were courting musical greatness — and it only took that long because eleven of those seconds were spent hunting the jewel [...] |
| | KONGOS – KONGOS When a father with a prestigious musical past announces that his sons are forming a band, the percentage of success is usually smaller than it should be as the children struggle to do justice to their parents’ name. Happily, Kongos, the quartet [...] |
| | They mixed up the artist info (it’s KONGOS, not John Kongos), and the language is a little strange, but a good review nevertheless. Kongos – Kongos “Kongos” by John Kongos [KONGOS] has a multiplicity of sounds on each track but some songs are ominous in [...] |
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