BLK JKS: 1/1/08

25 January 2008

EvO LokxiOn Sundaze #13

Sunday 3rd of February 2008, it’s the first edition of the year for our monthly Sunday sessions and we farewell to one of East Rand elite band the BLK JKS. Expect an explosive set from the four piece band before they jet out to New York, USA later next month… To Share the Stage will be Crack Jazz Foundation, One of Vosloorus new hottest four piece band. With an eclectic feel to their sound and yet it’s full on Hip-Hop, led by the young veteran Mc Mad Scientist …

Hailing from the UK, Blunted Stuntman the Break beat / Hip-Hop / Dub maestro is our guest DJ. Alongside will be the residence DJ Crew with their Smash Ups Sets from Rare Grooves Dub Afro Funk En Soul Hip-Hop, Digging across a music Spectrum that the most eclectic could love The Trio dR Mtunga MerO, Website & DJ BlaQ t as EvO LokxioN All-Stars

Stalls will available with exclusive material from hand made leather accesoceries,
Designer fashion garments, T-shirts & more.

The BLK JKS Ep will be available on
CD @ R60.00 & the Vinyl (single) @ R110

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08 January 2008

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Now there's talk that BLK JKS will soon travel to the USA in February-March for some dates in NYC...and Texas?

If youre just joining us now, BLK JKS is:

LINDA BUTHELEZI,lead vocals and guitar
MPUMI MCATA,rhythm guitar
TSEPANG RAMOBA, drums
MOLEFI MAKANANISE, bass

BLK JKS at SABC studios, Johannesburg. Photography by Warren Van Rensburg.

FOR / ABOUT THE "MYSTERY" EP

Now and then it’s easy to guess that Blk Jks, from Johannesburg, are an African band on their four-song “Mystery EP”. That’s when they go bounding into three-chord South African township grooves in “Lakeside” or overlay the reggae foundation of “Summertime” with syncopated guitars. But Blk Jks make their music in a global swirl of possibilities; they are an art-rock band...While the lyrics (mostly in English) ponder philosophical quandaries — “All the wise men ’round the world don’t know the answers” — the band’s quick-fingered, multilayered vamps well up out of murky echoes, piling jubilation atop the anxiety, before submerging again..........................via THE NEW YORK TIMES

SOMES BRIEF NOTES

Childhood friends Linda and Mpumi grew up on the same block in Johannesburg’s East Rand, where they taught themselves guitar. Forming a band in 2000, early BLK JKS shows and recordings were remarkable for their stacks of guitar drone and head nodding beats, but it was with the addition of bassist Molefi and drummer Tshepang—both of Soweto—that BLK JKS began work with a fresh approach and plunged into its current universe of sound. Heavy club dates and festival gigs followed as they band earned a loyal following across the country.

The November 2007 release of the “Lakeside” vinyl-only 10in marks the band’s international debut with a limited edition of 500 selling at some of the world's best record shops.

The cover of Fader magazine and trip to the US in the spring of 2008 sparked sessions at the famed Electric Lady Studios with Brandon Curtis of Secret Machines at the controls.

The MYSTERY EP that resulted is available now as a vinyl/digital release.

THIRD PARTY PROPAGANDA

What makes them hip is that they’re South African and damn it, they sound it. In fact listening to BLK JKS is kind of like taking a slow cruise through Jozi with your windows rolled down. Afro-jazz riffs segue into tribal rhythms, which swagger through street-level sociology before exploding into hardcore bursts of noise, kwaai kwaito beats and addictive rock hooks. It’s not funk rock. It’s not punk rock. It’s not indie rock. It’s just music, and it’ll infect your mind if you let it.

In many ways the BLK JKS ability to genre hop is reminiscent of South African 80s white rock bands like Via Afrika, whose avant-boere-jive fusion freak-ins and erotic shebeen dub multi-layered mbaqanga chants situated rock in direct opposition to the separate development strategies of Apartheid.

Miles Keylock "Between Rock And The Rainbow Nation"

* MYSTERY EP *

25 January 2008

EvO LokxiOn Sundaze #13

19 January 2008

LONDON CALLING 1ST OF FEBRUARY COMING UP

08 January 2008

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FOR / ABOUT THE "MYSTERY" EP

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