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Just A Band is a Kenyan house/funk/disco band whose career was launched with their debut album, Scratch To Reveal, in 2008. Their music has explored various musical directions such as, but not limited to jazz, hip-hop, disco and electronica.
The band are also notable for their DIY aesthetic. In addition to writing, recording and engineering their music, the band creates their own music videos, packaging and promotional items, and established a strong web and blog presence, referencing elements from virtual bands like Gorillaz and incorporating anime and animation, illustration and photography in their visual campaigns.
As Just A Band themselves say: “Just A Band are Blinky, Dan and Jim. We put this album [their last one, 82] together ourselves, as always (despite a countrywide power rationing program – blackouts three days a week!)… We live in the same house – our friends call it Just A House – and being in a band is mostly fun, except for the days when all three of us are broke… We were all born in 1982, hence the album’s title. This was the year a military coup was staged in Kenya – so our mothers were all under some duress. Twenty one years passed before we all met up and decided to start a band…”
Just a Band has a new EP called To Hell with Gravity dropping on May 18th. Want to win a free copy of this album? Send us an email to contests@randomville.com and with the words “JAB album” in the subject line by Friday, May 7th at 11:59pm EST and we’ll pick one lucky winner!
05/03/10
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