"Global album of the month" - "Konan's eponymous 1986 international debut is a kaleidoscopic jumble of drums - the electric, the acoustic and, crucially, the ahoko. A ribbed wooden stick with a hollowed-out shell to rub along it, the minimalist instrument is a staple of the indigenous Baoulé people of the Ivory Coast and its playing is an integral feature of Konan's album, now reissued. Konan's record may be rooted in the 80s but it is thoroughly modern, transplanting the traditional carnivalesque devotional songs of the Baoulé to an emerging sacred space of the era: the dancefloor. In mixing the "western" electronic sounds of drum samplers, synthesisers and twanging bass with Baoulé vocals and the ever-present thrumming of the ahoko, Konan's record made her music a crate-digger's must-have for the club. Among the current glut of reissues, this re-pressing sounds remarkably fresh"