Interviews

"Before I went to Germany, I still spent a few years in Belgium attending a boarding school in Nivelles, but when my father discovered there was an excellent French school in West-Berlin, he arranged for my transfer."

"The thing is: musicians of my generation have had the luxury of growing up with an amazing array of musical genres at their disposal."

"(decided) No, I think that would simply be impossible, as that is who I am and I cannot run away from myself."

"I remember I was three years old when my father asked what I wanted to do when I grew up and even at that tender age I already replied: "Piano!"."

"I guess you could say this was sort of meant to be, yes."

"I think our music kind of carried us in that direction."

"I was still studying jazz at Jazz Studio in Antwerp at that time and basically Black Mystic Erotic was a collective of about twenty musicians playing music together that was mainly based on improvisation."

"We named ourselves The Alphabets but quickly discovered there was a band with the same name back in Manchester, so we decided to change it to Capital Letters which didn't seem to be all that big of a leap! (laughs)""

"Yes, we're fifteen brothers and sisters, all involved in music and generally known as the Njava family."

"What we do with Kobo Town is definitely very calypso-inspired, both in melody and lyrical approach.