MUSIC CENTER KINARMONIK
KINARMONIK
BUILDING THE FUTURE OF CONGOLESE MUSIC
Since 2018 - Kinshasa
Music center and production label.
Kinarmonik works for development
and the professionalization of the music sector in the DRC.
TRAINING + CREATION + PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION
MUSIC THAT
IT TAKES FORM , IT IS CREATED
AND IS TRANSMITTED.
Kinarmonik was born in Kinshasa from a conviction: musicians must be able to find the means to develop their practice, build their artistic identity and bring their projects to fruition.
Since 2018, we have been building a place where music is practiced daily. People come here to train, rehearse, meet other musicians, experiment, record and give shape to new creations.
Driven by musicians and a team committed to cultural development, Kinarmonik brings together three complementary poles: training, creation and production.
Our ambition: to enable artists to develop their own musical language and to fully take their place in the contemporary musical landscape .
A PLACE.
ARTISTS.
PROJECTS.
"With Kinarmonik, I created the place I dreamed of when I was a young musician."
Eric Malu Malu, Founder of Kinarmonik.
OUR 3 CENTERS
01
TRAINING
Maestro — Training to create your own music.
Maestro offers a progressive course that combines instrumental practice, understanding of musical language, rhythm, and composition. Musicians develop their skills, refine their listening skills, and explore their own creativity.
The goal : to become autonomous musicians, capable of thinking, building and creating their own music.
Maestro Training · 3 levels to: learn, understand and create.
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02
CREATION
A place to play, search and meet.
Rehearsing with your group, working on a repertoire, participating in a jam session, discovering other musicians or presenting your work to the public: the center offers a space to practice and experience music together.
Rehearsal space · JamKin · Meetups · Masterclasses · Small stage · Workshops
03
PRODUCTION
Giving projects the means to exist.
From the first recording to the production of an album, Kinarmonik accompanies artists whose worlds tell the story of the diversity of the contemporary Congolese scene.
Studio Kinarmonik · Label Kinarmonik Production · Artists · Albums · Singles
A LIVING HERITAGE
MUSIC IN MOTION
Congolese music is not limited to its history:
She continues to reinvent herself.
At Kinarmonik, the rhythms, instruments and know-how passed down through generations are also materials for composing, experimenting and imagining new musical forms.
With the "Spotlight" series meetings, workshops and creative projects, we seek to create a dialogue between musical heritages and the sensibilities and sounds of today.
LABEL
KINARMONIK
PRODUCTION
ARTISTS. UNIVERSES.
The artists we support don't all make the same music or tell the same stories. It's precisely this diversity that interests us.
From YOTSI's tradirock to Muntu'a Ndani's folk compositions, via urban music projects, Kinarmonik Production champions unique universes, rooted in their realities and open to new influences.
Each project is a new way to showcase contemporary Congolese music.
MECK DEFF
URBAN MUSIC
PROJECT 2027
YOTSI
TRADROCK - TRADFOLK
MAISHA - MAISHA - 2023
Second album currently in creation
MUNTU'A NDANI
FOLK
TALA TALA - Single - October 2026
KINSHASA
PARIS INTERNATIONAL
FROM KINSHASA TO PARIS, AND BEYOND.
Collaborations only become truly meaningful when they give rise to something concrete.
Training, residency, recording, meeting between artists or dissemination of a project: from Kinshasa, Kinarmonik develops exchanges with musicians and structures in France and internationally.
YOTSI's album Maisha, recorded in Kinshasa and enriched by international collaborations, illustrates this approach: projects are born here, are nourished by different perspectives and circulate without losing their roots.
GROW
AN INDEPENDENT PROJECT
Since 2018, Kinarmonik has been gradually building itself up, as closely as possible to the musicians and their needs.
Keeping a music center running, maintaining a rehearsal space, organizing meetings and preparing new training programs requires regular resources.
Your support directly contributes to this continuity and helps us develop a more autonomous model, capable of sustaining its activities over the long term.
Supporting Kinarmonik means giving music the means to continue.