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Welcome to Just a Band's home on the web.
Just a Band is Bill, Dan, Jim and Mbithi. We're a Kenyan group making music that runs from funky electronic rump-shakers to soulful African pop.
We produce our own sounds and visuals, so along the way we've ended up producing and recording studio albums, EPs and remixes, directing our music videos, DJing, putting up video art exhibitions and hosting parties of all kinds.

We like telling stories and inventing characters: Boflo and Katunge, a man riding a flying tortoise, Huff and Puff, and of course Makmende, whose Ha-He video became one of Kenya's first viral hits and changed the game for us.

In 2012 we went on a hiatus and each wandered off to go deeper into the things we love. Ten years later, the Muses called us back to the lab in 2022, and we're now finishing new sounds and material for a new album slated for release in early 2027.

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Hey! by Just a Band (2009)
"Hey!" from our debut album, Scratch to Reveal (2008), featured starcrossed puppet lovers Boflo and Katunge.
Ha-He! by Just a Band (2010)
"Ha-He!" from our second studio album, 82 (2009), featured Kenya's internet-breaking mythical hero Makmende.
Iwinyo Piny by Just a Band (2008)
Our first animated video, "Iwinyo Piny" (2008) from our debut studio album, had flying tortoises floating above Nairobi.
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