Coming to America can be pretty damn daunting…
Here’s an interview we did with the nice folks at Giant Magazine, in which we talk about coming to America, the BLNRB project and coming back home VERY different:
People are definitely looking at things differently here, because our work has a lot of references to things in Kenyan culture, but they still relate to the more universal themes.
AIM Magazine Interview
We recently gave an interview to AIM Magazine in Minnesota – in which we discussed our musical influences, hobbies (hobbies?) and the effect our DJ’ing gigs has had on our own music.
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Arcade44 features Ha-He!
Goodness! We just did an interview for Arcade44. ARCADE44! They’ve just put it up, and said:
We dare you not to re-think “Afro-pop” after a spin of this African pop band’s newly released second album 82. From club-bangers to soulful electronica, the collection is a heady, lively dose of the new from a crew that doesn’t take themselves too seriously.
Read the interview here. We may pass out!
Sweetmeats and Ambrosia
Here’s an interview we did with Pauline over at The Good Blog (intriguing moniker, no?) in which we discussed sweetmeats and ambrosia as a form of payment.
Just A Band was what we all decided would be the place for us to do things we couldn’t do in our day jobs/other bands, it would be the one place we’d have where imagination and humour and all that good stuff would always win out over, “Oh, you’re going to totally lose the audience with this one.”
This Is Quite Hectic For Us…
Just before we released “82″ (our second album), Kenya Christian conducted this interview in which we talked about our feelings towards the new material:
Scratch To Reveal was like a pilot project for us, and we were (and still are) very surprised at how well people took it. We’ve been playing with a lot of new sounds since we released it in May 2009 – and we’re excited about the new sound.
Read the whole interview here.
Interview with Museke
Here’s an interview from the people at Museke (pronounced moo-zi-ki?) in which we talked about how we made the “Iwinyo Piny” video, and inspiration we get from other African musicians, and the secret plan by left-handed people to take over the world (we’re on to you, Obama!):
We do all kinds of music. We want to set ourselves up in such a way that no one would be surprised if we released a folk album one day and an industrial techno album the next day. There are so many things you can do with music; it would be suffocating to have to stick to one style.
Interview with Jamati
Probably one of the first interviews we did for an online publication. Shirlene Alusa-Brown says:
This band has embraced a genre of music that is somewhat neglected in Africa today. With creative videos, unique sounds, and great music, they are putting afro/techno-house on the map.
Our First Interview Ever!
Afromusing was the first person to ever interview us about the band (just weeks after we released Scratch To Reveal). This is probably our most detailed interview yet (no one’s cared for the details after that, sigh!). In Part One, we discuss creative processes, inspirations and the origins of our ridiculous biography, Daniel refers to George Clinton as ‘our spiritual ancestor in the genre of musical Black sci-fi!’, Jim talks about how the Scratch To Reveal cover was made (wow – you can Google the cover on Google Images!), and Bill doesn’t say much. It was really nuts, this interview:
Actually, the bio came about because we thought that the real story makes for a pretty dull read. I still have the notebook page where we start off, “In 2003, three young men met… The liner notes on Scratch To Reveal are just us being overwhelmed by actually *making* an album…
In Part Two, Daniel talks about his animation history, the fights we had during the making of “Iwinyo Piny” and the software we used. Bill says something about being a geek:
I prefer to be on my computer than at a party. At least two of us are total geeks (the other one is in denial).
- which is not true anymore, Bill and Daniel are total party animals these days. 
There’s no better place for us to say a BIG thank you to Afromusing (better known as Juliana) for taking an interest in us when it didn’t even make sense to.
