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BLK JKS
General information
origin Johannesburg , South Africa
Genre (s) Alternative rock , experimental rock , progressive rock
founding 2000
Website www.blkjks.com
Founding members
Lindani Buthelezi
Mpumi Mcata
Molefi Makananise
Tshepang Ramoba
former members
Lindani Buthelezi

BLK JKS (pronounced: Black Jacks ) are a South African rock band from Johannesburg . It was founded in 2000.

history

The friends Mpumelelo Mcata and Lindani Buthelezi founded the band in 2000. However, the first appearance came in 2005 in Grahamstown , when Molefi Makananise (on bass) and Tshepang Ramoba (on drums) completed the group. The four brought out their first tracks and in 2007 DJ Diplo became aware of them during his South Africa tour. He invited the BLK JKS to New York City and in 2008 they came to tour the United States. During this time, they appeared on the cover of The Fader magazine . In the same year the band got a record deal with Secretly Canadian . A year later she released her EP Mystery and her debut album After Robots . The music magazine Rolling Stone named the group as Africa's best new band and the Mail & Guardian featured them in its annual special issue of important young South Africans in 2009 and 2010. In 2010 BLK JKS also won the South African Music Awards in the Best English Alternative Album category . In the same year they also released their EP Zol! and performed at an opening concert at Orlando Stadium in Soweto on June 10, the day before the World Cup began . Her piece Lakeside can also be heard on the soundtrack of the computer game FIFA 10 .

In the next few years the band became quieter. Singer and guitarist Lindani Buthelezi left the group around 2012. The other band members also became active in musical side projects. Nevertheless, the remaining BLK JKS continued to play together and in 2014 accompanied the Foo Fighters on their South Africa tour . The following year the BLK JKS collaborated with the South African group The Brother Moves On as Blk Brothers, previously they had already worked with the Malian musician Vieux Farka Touré . At the Afropunk Festival Johannesburg in 2017 they performed together with the singer Thandiswa Mazwai as "King Tha" vs. BLK JKS on. As a tribute to the recently deceased South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela , BLK JKS and his son Selema Masekela released a cover of Masekela's piece The Boys Doin 'It in 2018 . It was BLK JKS's first release in nine years.

Discography

Albums

  • 2009: After Robots

EPs

  • 2006: BLK JKS
  • 2009: Mystery
  • 2010: Zol!

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Eddie Houghton: BLK JKS Are Out to Map the African Brain or Kill the Patient Trying. In: The Fader. October 1, 2008, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Martin Aston: BLK JKS: playing rock in a hard place. In: The Guardian . June 3, 2010, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Loyd Gedye: Black rockers. In: Mail & Guardian . June 13, 2006, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ Loyd Gedye: BLK JKS ink big international deal. In: Mail & Guardian . December 11, 2008, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Rocking out with 'Africa's best new band'. In: CNN International . March 10, 2010, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Loyd Gedye: 2009 Arts & Culture: BLK JKS. In: Mail & Guardian . 2009, accessed on January 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Loyd Gedye: 2010 Arts & Culture: BLK JKS. In: Mail & Guardian . 2010, accessed on January 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Stefanie Jason: Half-JKS are the new BLK. In: Mail & Guardian . April 12, 2014, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Sosibo Kwanele: Linda Buthelezi and his new God Sons and Daughter outfit re-emerges revived. In: Mail & Guardian . August 9, 2016, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Sosibo Kwanele: The evolution of the black band, a decade on. In: Mail & Guardian . November 7, 2014, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  11. ^ Bongani Kona: Blk Brothers get it together. In: Mail & Guardian . February 27, 2015, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Lerato Matsoso: BLK JKS ready to rock. In: Daily Sun. December 6, 2017, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Phumlani S. Langa: The boys re-doin 'it: Celebrating Hugh Masekela's ecstatic exuberance. In: City Press. June 26, 2018, accessed January 9, 2019 .