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█████▀ BLK JKS - Abantu / Before Humans ▀█████
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████ GENRE...[ Indie CAT#....[ GBDL108 ████
████ LABEL...[ Glitterbeat Records ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 46:15 REL.DATE[ 05.23.2021 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 09 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 105,97 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 Yela Oh ! 03:15 ████
████ 02 Running ù Asibaleki Sheroes Theme 04:48 ████
████ 03 iQ(w)ira ù Machine Learning Vol 1 06:08 ████
████ 04 Mme Kelapile 04:01 ████
████ 05 Harare 04:40 ████
████ 06 Human Hearts 05:09 ████
████ 07 Yoyo ! ù The Mandela Effect Black Aurora Cusp 04:59 ████
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████ 08 Maiga Mali Mansa Musa 03:57 ████
████ 09 Mmao Wa Tseba ù Nare Indaba My Children 09:18 ████
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████ TOTAL: 46:15 ████
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████ https://blk-jks.bandcamp.com/album/abantu- ████
████ before-humans ████
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████ BLK JKS are a seminal force in the South ████
████ African underground. After an extended hiatus ████
████ the Johannesburg foursome, championed by The ████
████ Mars Volta and TV On The Radio (amongst many ████
████ others), return with a groundbreaking new ████
████ album. ████
████ ████
████ Monster grooves meet guitar and brass driven ████
████ afro-rock. Echoes of spiritual jazz, post- ████
████ apocalyptic funk, renegade dub and kwaito. ████
████ Features Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure and ████
████ Beastie Boys accomplice Money Mark on the track ████
████ "Maiga.ö ████
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████ ôThis South African art-rock band traffics in ████
████ complexity, cross-hatching not only rhythms and ████
████ textures but also the signifiers of genreö - ████
████ Nate Chinen (The New York Times) ████
████ ████
████ The story of BLK JKS reads like a veritable ████
████ rockÆnÆroll legend. For a couple of years ████
████ around the end of the 00Æs, the enigmatic South ████
████ African rock quartet was the darling of the ████
████ underground scene. Apparently ôdiscoveredö by ████
████ Diplo in South Africa, they went on to meet and ████
████ befriend everyone from The Mars Volta to TV On ████
████ The Radio, two bands they were often compared ████
████ to. They jammed with The Roots, snapped pics ████
████ with Pharrell Williams and hung out with Lou ████
████ Reed at the SXSW festival in Texas. They played ████
████ double bills with Squarepusher at Southbank ████
████ (UK) and Femi Kuti at the fabled Irving Plaza ████
████ (NYC). Recording an EP aptly named ôMysteryö by ████
████ chance at Jimi HendrixÆs iconic Electric Lady ████
████ Studios. This and a Fader Magazine cover ████
████ feature in March 2008 then led to the band ████
████ signing with indie label Secretly Canadian in ████
████ 2009. ████
████ ████
████ Their debut album ôAfter Robotsö went on to ████
████ blow down the walls of rock'n'roll Jericho with ████
████ its heady yet seamless mix of post-apocalyptic ████
████ African funk rock, jazz, kwaito, folk, renegade ████
████ dub, psych prog-rock, tv channel hopping, ████
████ internet surfing, mbaqanga, soul and pretty ████
████ much everything else in between. Confidently ████
████ pushing one golden envelope through another the ████
████ band began captivating a cult following for ████
████ their music worldwide. ████
████ ████
████ Foo Fighter Dave Grohl declared ôAfter Robotsö ████
████ his favourite album of 2009. Thanks to a killer ████
████ live collaboration with Alicia Keys at the 2010 ████
████ Soccer World Cup Kick-Off Concert to an ████
████ estimated television audience of two billion ████
████ and their hit song ôLakesideö being synched on ████
████ EA SportsÆ FIFA10 soundtrack, the reviews were ████
████ glowing and global audiences growing û case in ████
████ point, Rolling Stone Magazine championed the ████
████ BLK JKS as ôAfricaÆs best new bandö. ████
████ ████
████ But just as quickly as they arrived on the ████
████ international scene, BLK JKS disappeared. ████
████ ████
████ The years of international touring had begun to ████
████ take its toll. By 2011 the band were back in ████
████ South Africa and continued to play the festival ████
████ and nightclub circuit. But Johannesburg or Cape ████
████ Town isnÆt New York or LA. A hiatus where each ████
████ member pursued their individual creative muses ████
████ was inevitable and necessary. Fans and critics ████
████ alike doubted whether BLK JKS would ever record ████
████ again. ████
████ ████
████ Yet while they flew largely under the ████
████ mainstream media radar, for the next five years ████
████ the three remaining members continued to work ████
████ together. After opening for Foo Fighters in ████
████ 2014 at the request of Dave Grohl who inspired ████
████ the band to forge on. More experimentation and ████
████ collaboration would become key. They jammed and ████
████ recorded with Malian guitar royalty Vieux Farka ████
████ Toure and hip-hop revolutionary Money Mark. In ████
████ January 2018 they recorded a bold, brassy, ████
████ beautiful re-envisioning of trumpet legend Hugh ████
████ MasekelaÆs 70Æs hit ôThe Boys DonÆ Itö shortly ████
████ after his passing, as a tribute to their late ████
████ friend and mentor. The song featured HughÆs ████
████ son, Selema of Alekesam on vocals and a certain ████
████ Tebogo Seitei cutting a firebrand trumpet solo ████
████ through the heart of the track. ████
████ ████
████ BLK JKS couldnÆt help but to invite young ████
████ trumpeting virtuoso Tebogo Seitei to complete ████
████ the quartet. They then hit the rehearsal room ████
████ running. Spending their winter weeks, and ████
████ months of 2018 in the studio à or rather the ████
████ Soweto Theatre Orchestra Pit which they rebuilt ████
████ into a studio and locked themselves into re- ████
████ imagining a guitar-and-brass-driven, widescreen ████
████ African Diasporic roots rock sound. They got it ████
████ down. But the studio was burgled and the hard ████
████ drives on which the songs were saved wound up ████
████ stolen. Bummed out, bent out of shape by ████
████ existential questions, they refused to be ████
████ broken, so the band went back into the studio, ████
████ a year later, recalibrated, and re-recorded the ████
████ album in only three days! A rockÆnÆroll ████
████ phoenix, rising from the ashes. ████
████ ████
████ Now, itÆs the year 2021. We are here in the ████
████ future, where BLK JKS finally re-enter the ████
████ musical fray with their long-awaited new album ████
████ ôAbantu / Before Humansö. They see it as a ████
████ prequel to ôAfter Robotsö. ████
████ ████
████ ôAbantuö is a surreal journey of an album, ████
████ beaming with laser-like vision and powerà that ████
████ in parts possesses an almost hauntingly ████
████ vulnerable beauty. ████
████ ████
████ The band believes ôThere is a lot of important ████
████ information stored and needing to be restored ████
████ or preserved in this kind of narrow sonic ████
████ crevice we are mining.ö û Mpumelelo Mcata ████
████ (Guitarist). ████
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████ It's this commitment to cultural activism that ████
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████ Humans.ö ████
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████ The band declare as much on the new album's ████
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████ text that reads: "A complete fully translated ████
████ and transcribed Obsidian Rock Audio Anthology ████
████ chronicling the ancient spiritual technologies ████
████ and exploits of prehistoric, post-revolutionary ████
████ afro bionics and sacred texts from The Great ████
████ Book On Arcanum by Supernal 5th Dimension Bound ████
████ 3rd Dynasty young Kushites from Azania.ö ████
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████ Wait up, what to make of such an arcane, ████
████ unabashedly literary, sonic fiction? Simple. ████
████ Back in 2009 BLK JKS had foreseen the future ████
████ with ôAfter Robots.ö ████
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████ In 2021 with ôAbantu / Before Humansö this ████
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████ moniker: Afropunk. These brothers just want to ████
████ jam. To say BLK JKS poured gas on the fire down ████
████ below or lit the flames that created the ████
████ soundtrack for the nascent Afropunk movement in ████
████ their home country of South Africa especiallyà ████
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████ The band are often cited as key influences on ████
████ artists like Spoek Mathambo, Nakhane, Petite ████
████ Noir and Urban Village. TheyÆve also helped ████
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████ Johannesburg indie record label Mushroom Hour ████
████ and others who are starting to make waves ████
████ internationally. ItÆs an influence that has ████
████ spread further than just music too û quietly ████
████ influencing young diasporadical visual artists, ████
████ photographers, writers and filmmakers alike ████
████ globally. ████
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████ BLK JKSÆs universal artistic appeal and ████
████ approach to their work can be seen and felt ████
████ clearly in their latest cover art collaboration ████
████ with formidable fine artist Nandipha Mntambo. ████
████ She is a brilliant peer and an inspired match. ████
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████ To celebrate the 10yrs+ anniversary of their ████
████ genre-traversing and trailblazing, award ████
████ winning debut ôAfter Robots,ö BLK JKS are amped ████
████ to announce that they are scheduled to drop ████
████ their new album ôAbantu / Before Humansö ████
████ through an exciting new partnership with ████
████ Glitterbeat Records (Worldwide) & We Are Busy ████
████ Bodies (North America). ████
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