 We can see them in front of you, and you know what's happening. Matata are here to talk about their new album, Supermario, to talk about their concert which is happening on the planet of Pizzeria more, and to talk about the experience that you're going to have there. So we're here to share with you all this news. You can ask all the questions you want to ask, and we can also do interviews, we can do one-on-one interviews after we finish. So we hope this is going to take around maybe 30 minutes or 40 minutes much, and you have time to ask your one-on-one question. I don't want to say much because we all want to hear from Matata, and they also joined the mic from ACA. So I will just introduce each one of them, and then we'll allow them to start speaking. I invite you in and ask you a couple of questions, or you could just start talking whatever comes to your mind. So from the far right, we have Freddie, you know, and then we have Hezo, and then we have Macke, and then we have Richie, one member of Matata. Can you see them? That's why I'm here. My dancing show. They will tell us where he is, or if the actually plan is to replace him with Mike, and then Mike from ACA knows the place. Yeah, sorry, not ACA, but Ace, and he will also tell us more about what we have in this experience. We're very thankful for Rockshow for being here in the building. They have some nice beers for you to taste. They're brand new, so feel free to taste beers while you're around. There's some nice cups you can take home, and there's going to be more to experience at the concert. Other artists will also be performing. Thank you, Rachel, from EABL. You can also join us. The other artists will be performing at Matata's concert on the patio. They'll be joining us here today. You'll see them, surprise artists. So without further ado, I'm going to start from Matata. We'll go to 8th, and then come back to EABL, and then here from nature. So Fredy, Haribu. Thanks, Sana. So thank you all for being here today. Thank you, Sana. So as I was saying, thank you so much for all of you for turning up here on such a short notice. This is Matata, and we are Matata. Matata is a music and dance group from here, from Kenya, but we are based in Oslo, Norway. And right now we are back here home promoting our new album, SuperMario. I don't know if you've got an opportunity to hear it, but SuperMario is currently the best album in the country, best album in the world. The album has 15 tracks, and what we have right now, what we have upcoming right now is the SuperMario experience, which is a show that is there to celebrate the album. So I'll not talk so much. I'm going to pass it over to my friends, and I'll just chip in as we go. Yes, the SuperMario album. Maybe you can talk a little bit about the album. We featured a couple of artists, took on a Saudi song, two songs with them. We have Waka Denali. We have, yes. Yes. All right. Sasa. Now, yeah, the album will feature the a couple of artists, took on a Saudi song, took on Waka Denali, took on Kelo Mats. We have Fee. We have Liam Bailey from London. We have Akouvi, a Norwegian and a Ghanaian artist. We have our moms also in the album. We're blessed to have them. And basically, just to talk a bit about SuperMario, just the idea behind the title, the inspiration. We just wanted to tell our stories from where we come from to where we are now. Like we come from a very humble beginning, like we've been dancing in Nairobi, maybe Gamboca, been backup dancers, Sarakasi FBI. Now we're doing music, which is very well received. For us, SuperMario is just us being able to come from nothing to where we are, just the process. It's all makes us the SuperMario. And basically to cooperate, just to celebrate and motivate. If we did it, I'll see you. Thank you. Like the other reason also is like to connect with our fans and also for us just to get like that one-on-one connection. Because we only connect through YouTube and social media. So I think we are very lucky to getting this chance like meeting up with the people and you want to like our music people who share the dream with us. So it's a really a big step and a big opportunity for us to get your chance at least to be here. To have like an event that celebrates who we are and also an event that celebrates the people who like what we do. So like basically the SuperMario experience is not only for us, it's also for you. It's also for you who likes Matata. It's also for you who you see yourself as a Mario. It's also for you who thinks and who believes that we can do this together. So like, Jeni. Come and just experience what Matata is. Jeni to socialize. We get to know each other. Event. So our dream is that we have our own event up here in Kenya and I think it's a dream in the reality. Thanks to Team S, Rockshow, Onboard, and Pia, team Aniko. Yeah. Spotify, Boom Plane, one thing, but Pia could watch to keep her form is another. Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken Hayuko. He broke his leg so he was not able to come with us, but he will be with us in spirit. Yeah. But they don't hold their mics. Hi guys, my name is Marek from Team Ace, Africa-centric entertainment. We are super proud to be working with Matata on this. We are the African Rep and we've been working with them for now close to two years. It was such a privilege signing them back in 2021 and this is one of the culmination. So let's say one of the results of that signing is bringing the guys to Kenya as oftentimes as possible, bringing them home. They are otherwise freezing their asses off in Norway. So they came here to warm up and they warm up just the other weekend. By the way, I don't know how many of you were at Soulfest, an amazing event, and kudos to the Saudi team and soul generation teams as well. The guys really rock the stage and I think this is also why Rockshore is the ideal partner from EABL to join us on the 30th and put on a real big show. If you look online, the sentiments from this past weekend's show were amazing and the guys never really put on anything less than a super electrifying, super Mario experience. So that's what we wanted to give in its entirety because you only got to see 30 minutes or just below 30 minutes of that set. On the 30th, you're going to get three times the set. It's going to be roughly about 90 minutes, right Jens? So it's going to be an amazing show. They're going to play you all the hits and all the new tracks, everything to do with the new album as well, Super Mario album. So yeah, I'm really excited looking forward to it. A great way to close the year. We'll be there from I think on the 30th from about four or five o'clock. Just follow the socials for all the details and yeah, looking forward to having you guys there. So the confirmed lineup and Saimo, I'm not sure how much of this you want to speak about, you should actually join us, come. Also just wanted to make sure that you thank the incredible team. Honestly, these guys at Ace from Saimo to Kendi to Juliet to Manu to Clinton that are working on this project. They've been working tirelessly day and night to make sure we give you guys the best experience, just what we know for and what we like to do and what we've done the whole year. So hopefully we're going to deliver the same on the 30th, 100% sure. So you tell us exactly what you can mention at this point. Simon from Team Ace, maybe just do a little intro as well. I'll hold this for you. Yeah, so I'm Simon, I'm a minor talent executive at Ace. I've always been a huge fan of Matata, so it's a really great honor to be working with them. And for the show, I think there's so much more to experience. I know typically in the concerts we expect their performances, that will be electric. But even beyond over and above that, the experiential zone that we're planning to set up, color zones, because each of these guys assume a different color. You're keen on the music videos, you'll notice they all wear a certain color. And so we'll have color zones on the ground and each of these color zones will have elements and experiences that bring out the personalities of each individual. So you will not only get to experience Matata as a group, but individually there will be some nice experiential zones for each of them. As for the lineup, obviously we have to bring some cool friends of Matata, people who are in their family, people who they vibe with, they've already collaborated with, are keen on working with, for who are as cool as they are. So we have Waka Denali, Ron Rende, we have Karun, we have Soul Generation, that's in Virion Ben Soul. We have Brandi Minor, we have the Jadak Child and many more that we're keeping adding as we go. So it will be a full show, so to say, on that year. Please come through. I think it's not a surprise that ABL is supporting Matata. We've seen what has happened even with the task of top affairs. So maybe wipe this particular brand for this particular group and what do you find intriguing about them? What more should we expect from the partnership you guys are already having with Matata? Yeah. First let me start with introducing myself. I'm Rachel Mariko from the Innovations Department at KBL and currently the innovations lead behind this brand Rockshow. Rockshow really stands for infusing flavor into the beer world, bringing back excitement into the beer portfolio and none other than Matata would represent us best. You've heard what Simon has said about them having the different colors and all and I think Rockshow is really for all the morios out there. So this brand is definitely meant to resonate with the consumers that we are speaking to as well as, okay, sorry, yeah. And this brand resonates with the consumers that we're trying to speak to and it's totally the same group that we find Matata actually speaking to. And when you also look at the rest of the lineup of artists that we have, it's a similar profile. We're really targeting the younger consumers who are looking for flavorful ways to enjoy their lives. Yeah. I have a question for you. I believe that look at that Super Mario art it reminds me of that and I see so much going with that. Do you guys have any plans to expand the brand? The brand Rockshow? Super Mario. I think it reminds me of Fedora game and then that legacy is huge. Cartoon, so currently we just on the first phase of Super Mario, it's a lot coming with the album. So right now we have the album out, but we have like a comic book that is coming out. We have so much in that that is coming out. And we have much more big plans that we will not reveal right now, but it's not just an album because this Super Mario for us, this is like a lifestyle. Yeah. And I also wanted to add on the partnership with Rockshow. I think another strong alignment even when we were seeking out Rockshow to come on board as a partner was because Rockshow is the things that excite their TA, things like fashion, dance, music are literally what these boys are all about. They are dancers, they rock their fashion so nicely, they have dope music. So they tick all the boxes that excite the TA that Rockshow is seeking out. So that just felt like a very obvious and very strong alignment and we can't be more than happy to have Rockshow on board. Is it a one-time thing for the event of a long-term thing where you might try to find another? Good question. We've been looking forward to this question. Definitely this is the start of a journey. I would not reveal too much. I think it's the start of this partnership. So we want to see how things progress, but they're definitely a great team to have behind Rockshow. Yeah. I think according to me the glue that holds Matata together is honesty. We are really honest with each other and apart from its honesty and respect, we really are honest with each other and we really respect each other. So I feel that these two, Matata is built into these two foundations and I feel that image to cement so much we've gone from being workmates to brothers. So these are the closest people, for example, for me. I'm so close with these people. I spend time with these people more than I spend time with my kid. So it's no longer about work. This is family for me. It's just the fact that we have a lot of ideas. We have five heads. So it's always a debate. When we come up with a project, it's usually like you have to pitch it. You have to make a presentation and pitch why you think your project is good, why it should be considered in the album. So just that Yoku like deciding on what tracks to pull out there, that's the biggest challenge and that was the biggest challenge for us putting this SuperMario album together. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good question. I think Matata, the first way and the first thing when you see Matata is dance. Like we were dancers before we were musicians. So like the dance is a very important part to us and most of us here, like dancers professionally, that we understand the motion of emotions with music. So like for us, for example, if we want to make a song that is going to make you bop your head, we know how to do that because like we really have a good background in dance and if we're going to make a song that's going to touch your heart and soul, we know how to do that because like we can always go back and derivative from our dance experience. Yeah, maybe to add to what Marcus just said, for us, dance is like a visualization of music. So it's kind of like every time we are dancing, in our minds we are like painting pictures of what the music is doing to us. So for us, dance is very important and like dance and music cannot be separated and if you think about it like even from our traditional African culture and society, dance was everything. When somebody was born, people danced. When somebody died, people danced. When somebody was married or anything like that, people danced. So for us, dance is like that basic vibration as human beings that I feel that we need and like us putting together music and dance, I feel we're just connecting not only back to our roots but connecting back to the essential of what life is to us. We see life in rhythm and movement. Yeah, it's really, really hard because like Matata cannot be four, cannot be two, can always just be five. So like it's a really, really big space that we are like right now we are covering it up but there's always a space like it's not something that is replaceable but either way he's always with us like right now in the morning we were having a video call with him, we were sharing ideas of what to say today. Like he's still with us like in spirit and also in action. He was not able to travel to Kenya because he really had an injury on his leg. He has a 12 weeks bed rest, he cannot move. He had an alteration on his leg. He's actually standing on his leg. So he's not while dancing. So he cannot be able to move, he's on 12 weeks. So friend of Matata being somebody quite respected in the Kenyan industry you know being someone who's been a performer at the event, being someone who has her own things running you know you have a recent project out so we just want to hear your the vibes at the moment. Your vibes. Hey what's up everyone. Thank you guys so much by the way. Guys like we've been chatting online but we haven't met so this is like the first time in the same room. Yeah but thanks for having me. I love the vibe of what you guys are doing. The visuals are like amazing so I'm really just honored to be part of this and yeah thanks so much for thinking of me. I'm excited to do my thing and also watch them as well. Any other questions? Also Rachel and Marek is there anything you guys would like to add? Please feel free. Anything you want to say? Maybe what do you want to say to your fans? I feel like since you started out despite the fact that you were not here when you started the music there's so much support and love and this has been growing at a very fast rate irrespective of whether you're here or in Norway so maybe this is also your chance to say something to your fans and we would like to see you to see more of you in Kenyan Africa so maybe also tell us what are more plans for us to see you more here. We want to keep you more. So to our fans we really really appreciate we don't take this for granted as in this is not about us anymore because you guys mentioned where we are right now and we still feel like we just right now we're just starting. Visions and dreams to Konazo is too big sometimes it scares us like to speak of what we want to do like it's scary because we have such big dreams but we are thankful that Tuna so much support from the fans and the media and like the online media mainstream media all the DJs that are playing our songs all the people that want to stream our songs we really really appreciate because it's not easy us being far from home but still being able to connect with home it's we feel like we're privileged and we do not take this for granted and we just want to make you guys proud so on the 30th just come and experience have a little experience of what Matata is what we are trying to do and how we are trying to elevate the game and where we are trying to take the music industry the Kenyan music industry and like the plans that we have where can they get the tickets oh yeah how much are they going for so the tickets are available at matata.hasa.shop i'll repeat that again tickets available at matata.hasa.shop the tickets are going for 1500 shillings and the tickets are redeemable for two rock show beers so this is a really good deal i don't think the potato deal anywhere else come and experience matata experience rock show and let's have a good night