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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ BLK JKS - Abantu / Before Humans ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ BLK JKS ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Abantu / Before Humans ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 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 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 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 ████ ████ Druids Ascending ████ ████ 08 Maiga Mali Mansa Musa 03:57 ████ ████ 09 Mmao Wa Tseba ù Nare Indaba My Children 09:18 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 46:15 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://blk-jks.bandcamp.com/album/abantu- ████ ████ before-humans ████ ████ ████ ████ 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 ████ ████ ████ ████ 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). ████ ████ ████ ████ It's this commitment to cultural activism that ████ ████ encodes the musical DNA of ôAbantu / Before ████ ████ Humans.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ The band declare as much on the new album's ████ ████ manifesto - we see on the vinyl cover art a ████ ████ 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 ████ ████ ████ ████ 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 ████ ████ ████ ████ In 2021 with ôAbantu / Before Humansö this ████ ████ present has a fiercely retro-futuristic fresh ████ ████ 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 ████ ████ would not be too far off the mark. ████ ████ ████ ████ The band are often cited as key influences on ████ ████ artists like Spoek Mathambo, Nakhane, Petite ████ ████ Noir and Urban Village. TheyÆve also helped ████ ████ bring to life ideas like growing young ████ ████ 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. ████ ████ ████ ████ 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. ████ ████ ████ ████ 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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