We’ve remixed three of the songs on the Album:

In The Music
Nothing
The Way

Please call your local radio stations and request KONGOS. The song Curious has been getting regular spins on these stations:

Indie 103.1 FM in Los Angeles, California
• Request online
• Request line: 877.900.1031

Motor FM in Germany

• http://www.motorfm.de/

KNRK in Portland, Oregon
• Email Gustav
• Request line: 800.777.0947

102.7 WEQX in Albany, New York
• Request online
• Request line: 802-362-1027

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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 it’s easy to see why here. The album bristles with intelligently written soulful pop-rock and enough spunk on “The Music” and “The Trouble Is” to keep the rock kids happy. Some beautifully creative use of loops and accordion keep everything ticking over nicely.

So, we’ve seen that they have the “Rock” down pat, but what about diversity? For this, look no further than “Another Daydream”, as fine a slice of slightly left-field alternative rock balladeering as you’re likely to come across all year, and another feather in the band’s cap.

Trying to think of comparison points for this band is difficult. There’re elements of the gleeful experimentation within the pop framework which has served Gomez so well in the last few years, but Kongos have a slightly slicker feel to them, thanks to the fine vocals of Dylan and Jesse and some well-formed songs which wouldn’t sound out of place on Radio 2.

KONGOS was one of four Phoenix rock bands chosen by the New Times to play in the Summer Of Sound concert series, opening for national act, Sugarcult, with the audience favorite to be named “Best Rock Band of Phoenix.“

KONGOS won with 41% of the vote! As a result we’ll get a write-up in the annual New Times Best Of Phoenix issue and attend some sort of award ceremony.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND FANS WHO SUPPORTED US!

Here are some clips from the Show:

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 complex, catchy CD

By Chris Hansen Orf, Get Out

May 10, 2007

Back in 2004, Kongos released what was one of the most impressive EPs in recent Valley music history, a debut containing five songs that were at once brimming with pop hooks yet dizzying in their musical complexity, and the best thing about it was that the band had already begun work on a full-length follow-up CD.

Long-awaited releases are nothing new in the annals of pop music. It took Beach Boys genius Brian Wilson 37 years to finally release “Smile,” and rock fans are still waiting, after nearly 15 years, for Guns N’ Roses guru Axl Rose to release “Chinese Democracy.”

But 2005 and 2006 ticked by with no CD from Kongos, leaving Valley fans and music critics who gushed over the band’s EP to wonder, “What’s going on?”

“We felt like we were almost there with the EP,” says drummer and songwriter Jesse Kongos, who is joined in the Paradise Valley-based band by his brothers Dylan (vocals, guitar), Daniel (guitar) and John J. (keyboards, accordion).

“But we felt we had so much to learn in the meantime — everything from production to the performances — we felt like we just needed to grow a little, so it took a long time because we were doing everything ourselves.”

The band’s self-titled debut full-length CD was finally released in early 2007, and the wait has been worth it. Kongos sounds like no other band, not just in the Valley, but in the whole of mainstream rock music, blending elements of Beatlesque pop, hard-rock riffs, jazzy interludes and the atmospheric rock of bands such as Coldplay and even Pink Floyd, sometimes all in the same song, such as in the standout tracks “Remember Me” and “The Way.”

“Since we didn’t have an outside producer, someone that was skilled in the engineering and the production part of it, we had to learn that process throughout the album,” says Dylan Kongos of the long recording process, which included multiple takes and re-workings of several songs on the disc.

The brothers, who range in age from 18 to 25, literally grew up in their home studios. Their dad is John Kongos, the South African-born and Britain-based singer/songwriter who scored two Top 5 singles in the U.K. in the 1970s with “He’s Gonna Step on You Again” (recently covered by Def Leppard) and “Tokoloshe Man.”

With the complexity of the studio album, how does the band pull everything off live?

“We’ve found ways between the two guitar players and with all the keyboard sounds to basically cover everything,” explains John J.

Besides playing Valley clubs, Kongos has played to enthusiastic crowds at L.A.’s Viper Room and hope to jump on the road this summer with a touring act. And the band has begun work on a new disc.

Valley music fans can only hope it doesn’t take another three years to make.

>> Kongos perform 6 p.m. Saturday, May 12, at Club Red, 2155 E. University Drive, Tempe. $3. (480) 966-4733 or myspace.com/kongos

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 Dudgeon and excellent guitars by Caleb Quaye. Also simply titled Kongos, this 2007 CD is the debut group recording of John’s four sons—Dylan Kongos (vocals, guitar), Jesse Kongos (drums), John J. Kongos (keyboards) and Daniel Kongos (guitars). With their famous father as executive producer and on backing vocals, the 2007 Kongos is a cool and entertaining spin that evokes their dad’s adventurous ‘71 Kongos album yet stakes out some new musical terrain one generation down the line. With the Kongos clan all based in Arizona these days, it’s even more enlightening to witness the inherent wealth and musical aptitude in the new Kongos generation. The songs stick, the vocals are compelling and that Kongos beat can still mesmerize. www.kongos.com