Blk Jks Biography

Blk Jks is a band from Johannesbu, South Africa. They are an African band on their four-song “Mystery EP”. That’s when they go bounding into three-chord South African township grooves in “Lakeside” or overlay the reggae foundation of “Summertime” with syncopated guitars. 

But Blk Jks make their music in a global swirl of possibilities; they are an art-rock band…While the lyrics (mostly in English) ponder philosophical quandaries — “All the wise men ’round the world don’t know the answers” — the band’s quick-fingered, multilayered vamps well up out of murky echoes, piling jubilation atop the anxiety, before submerging again……………………..via THE NEW YORK TIMES