They have also twice been voted as ‘best live band of the year’ by prominent rock magazine Rockhard, who also voted Tribe for best album of the year. In the words of Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam ‘they are definitely pushing the boundaries of rock and roll’.
Previously known as Asylum Kids, Tribe After Tribe’s unique blend of psychedelic African rock has received high praise from the media in Europe, UK and North America while their albums have been hailed as ‘crafted works of art’.
In the last two years Tribe have played to close to a million people, playing on massive stages including Woodstock Poland (which boasts having the largest stage ever built in Europe) and headlining the intimate Lott Festival in Germany.
The Lion’s Share is a best of and a strictly digital release on the newly founded Ritual Records. The long awaited homecoming tour by Tribe After Tribe to South African shores will follow within the next year, most likely in the first half of 2011.
Ritual is a label focused on rediscovering the classic South African punk and rock heritage and have a number of releases in the pipeline including Wild Youth, Power Age and many more.
And, in South Africa the film for the much loved local books by John de Ruit, Spud is now in full colour at the cinema (starring John Cleese), of which Asylum Kids have a song in the film. The track is fittingly called Schoolboy.
Comments from international media on The Lion’s Share:
“a beautiful album, crafted rather than merely recorded” Kerrang
“a fine fusion of hard rock and South African rhythm somewhere between the epic noise of Led Zeppelin and the modern world beat of Peter Gabriel” Los Angeles Times
“knocks me out … atmospherics that will make your stereo a pagan ritual” Playboy
Click here to download a Tribe After Tribe single from Ritual Records…
