 Now, I just want to lose it tonight, because we have to move out from the east, I don't want these dogs in the club Katbisa, welcome back to the east circuit, those are the vocals of Underlea Lone Gray and the guitarist goes by the name of Alex, his Instagram handle is a bit tricky, I'll let him say his Instagram handle a little later, he's very insistent on his Instagram so it better be popping, it better be popping, before we get into the interview, in the morning we were asking you guys a question, the question of the day was which funny sticker have you ever read on a matatu, even if it's a you know one of those mudflap thing is that you read whenever you're driving and there's a lorry in front of you, so let me sample some of them on the east circuit page and also on Y254 that's on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, Jose Gakunga is saying it's late tuned but sincerely speaking today's DJ and a speedy shangoma sana, DJ double junior will try to you know his name is junior twice so you can understand the speed but he'll try to you know to slow it down just a bit okay good freedom Shaili and some of the playlist is late um please play for me live me alone by calligraph jones it touches us just in a few minutes Derek the og and some are watching from kisumu quote is that are not smoking yet conductor okay so sir um fred in anim and i say hi east circuit i'm fred from naivasha and i would like you to play for me toto by us lei DJ double junior will hook that up for you in a few minutes another one the field marshal yes kumora on facebook and i say mafani banta i came across a trailer play for me radio love by Nadia he sent a photo on facebook the photo says um oh drive slow she kicks that's interesting you know those people who like to drive bumper to bumper so anasamosi karebi asana the lori kicks interesting yeah it's kind of funny simion i'll get on a summa from kaiola junction show eco top thank you so much for watching the east circuit keep sending a request to y254 and the east circuit remember the question of the day is what's the funniest bumper sticker or sticker in general you've ever read on a matatu on the back of lori on those mudflaps let us know we're waiting for that back to the interview and ali alone gray i hope i'm pronouncing that correctly is also from just music they did not break up for those ladies who are fans of just music but they decided to you know pursue other ventures separately until they can is that correct so welcome to the east circuit now you're here as a solo artist um yeah um so like you say um we are currently working on our solo albums and also we are working on an EP for just music which will be releasing probably in august so basically you as an individual you're working on two albums one with just music and you as a solo artist your your first EP i'm guessing yeah but let me ask you what's why the decision to break up first of all before establishing just music into greater heights no we haven't broken up uh actually yesterday we had a show and we still do shows and and stuff it's just that um um on our what we are putting out there right now we want to people to know as personally like for me what type of music i do because the the music i do it's not the same as just music you know genres and stuff and what so how would you define here alazia it's different and so it's different um just music has this vibe that personally i can't do it alone you know um it's african popish you know like it's just different it's unique on its own and what i used to do before just music it was uh it was also different so i wanted people to to hear it i didn't want it to just stay with me so what's your particular genre as a solo artist um as a solo artist mostly i do rmb hip hop uh yeah but i felt some soul with this uh you know whatever alex was playing very talented by the way even before i had to nambali what you said normal again uh lexo guitarista sapphika visa uh where did you guys find each other i'm uh it was for this particular project um we met uh we met at an event uh it was in garden city mall we met him he's in a band it's called band sick so we met at an event uh we talked to them told them yo we need to do a show and we don't have uh like a full band we just have a guitar and stuff so we told them to vibe along to our tunes and they viped along and we liked it and we told them uh they're going to play in our concert and they did and they killed it in a debut concert last year december and from then we've been working together he stays in juja he stays in juja we go to studio together you know we write songs together actually he helps me a lot in the writing process when it comes to the instrumentals and stuff what about you alex uh now in music you're also in a band right yeah but uh what about you are you pursuing a solo project because yes you are collaborating with other artists but uh what about you as a guitarist yeah most of the recording albums okay songs instrumentals and stuff okay we're anticipating that no i can tell you you know not much of a talk but it's okay we're here for underlay loans sir uh yes just music you're still together there's the ep coming yeah we're still together um now for you ep and your solo projects um what what should we uh anticipate um should anticipate for an album that is all out um i'm doing most of the genres people that uh that people relate with i'm not just sticking to one genre like R&B or hip hop i'm doing everything because um i can sing i can rap i can you know i can move around for dance necessarily but not said come on drop a move buster move that's what they said buster move why are you going to incorporate all of that first i haven't tried because like you were saying it was uh R&B soul soul you know hip hop but now you're saying you also dance so are we expecting some you know funk flex type of beats yeah maybe maybe if i do it on the last song who's working on the ep who are you watching right now i'm i'm working on an ep with most of my friends i'm collaborating with one of the artists you'll see him on the last song okay um he's also my producer very good um i'm working on there is a there's a girl called hilda teori there is a there's a song i've collaborated with my duomet from just music um there's another uh a very talented artist called lola i'm working on that with her with her i'm also doing a spoken word piece with a very talented spoken word artist called phala amjanja uh so yeah i just expect uh we are artists and as i said we are phala and amjanja sapphika bison now on youtube you you've already done two videos on your youtube channel your youtube channel yeah i've uh for your solo projects yeah i've dropped uh i dropped my first song of my album it's called lady i've done it with a uh very talented artist called lion boy it's basically i'm singing and i'm also rapping in the in the piece and then the second song that i dropped just last week goes by the name of love yeah it's an imb chill vibe no love i want you to sample love just a little bit okay we can do it for you please come meet my soul mate my love for you baby my only will never change and i say baby would you come with me and be my love hey my love for you baby my only will never change and i say baby vocals kali uh uh stash someone strings kali ne video le kali video le kali thank you Alex for the guitar strings hey kali kali so now you said the EP you're working with all this uh you know talented people but now in the morning we were discussing something with underscore we were talking about you know breaking out as an individual artist how difficult it is right now in Kenya and there's all these other things to uh he was saying it's 80% music 80% everything else that's the branding the marketing and the support system you have so what systems have you put in place to make sure you know and a Lea Lone Star becomes that household name that you wanted to be um um personally what he said is through by day um the music it's not that hard to write a song and you know to come up with a song that's the the easier bit the the harder bit is getting the music out there um having people to listen to what you're doing and um having people supporting you so you need to to know first of all you need to know the fan base that you have at that moment and then work on improving that fan base increasing it uh so like for me i do it by you know going for shows like um i attend i literally attend other people shows i play i go watch i play network yeah how people perform how how their music without their song writing how they market themselves yeah and uh i talk to them uh we exchange numbers you know as in that way when you send them a link they'll send it to their fans and you know you increase your fan base so it's all about how you work you need to work smart for like for me um i usually go to studio every day every single day every day my producer one i'm sumpo sana maybe at the time zingina na kakun kusabat yeah there's something there's a conversation that always happens in in kenya uh you know our music what what can i call it what's the word i'm looking for let's say our music uh right now it's a figure but in a farm but there's also this other conversation our artists will be nafsi mingi sana they're just looking out for themselves um is that true no it depends what what uh you feel like it's like you want to say yes but it's coming out as no maybe some of us i wouldn't say at your hundred percent uh at you know be nafsi yes some of us do you think that's the main reason we are not where we're supposed to be because if you look at all these other artists who are you know where they are right now it's because they were bringing other people up with every level that they reached um so like for for us let me say like for just music uh we whenever we have shows we usually put up like two shows in a year so whenever we have shows we bring in all the artists you know like uh they they are coming they are already up and coming uprising yeah um we usually call them in uh they perform so that at least even they get uh our fan base you know as in they they learn a fan you know maybe even everyone in the in the room so like we give them a platform we pay them in case they're stuck yeah so like sit 91 to kikuja ju so by the time sit kwa po ju so new autumn 91 and i'm 91 music here kenya that's what you mean really like um maybe when you're shafika and they're all in one but for for us who are coming up uh you're you're japa moja that's why we do we do events together like even before you go far here's the thing yeah those who are there they were uprising as well at some point in time now what we remember the colabos yeah we remember the nineties colabos you know that kapuka vibe everyone was doing a colabo with everyone everyone was lifting each other up then they go to a certain point now they feel like they're veterans in the game and they're not really quite there even themselves you know um so so uh i don't think um Sii ma ringu wa such, mi na zasema otuka kasi kazi ni, kasi kazi ni tumukwa na, then sol tumukwa na. Ami fika wukwa, but still badu tumapatana events, tumatok, as in, as in, you talk about the music. Akunan tuwa na ringa, just go to that person, ongya na hataputu, ongya, ongya. So that's how you think? Ka sii mo wi na, most lii na wakwaa na busy mi, like skeezi sii kisi mi, like go ongya na sii nmu, lii na paga waza silentu. Niko studio most of the time, sii kuna online, ni go online tu mi ni mengia na sheli. Asa ma sayo ma, ma sayo ma wakata to, sii kwala mwada ma na sumo andelia. Tiye na wlapa siiku blotik, ni wlaka kumi isi studio. Yeah, somiis. Sii kumi isi ko siiku le yung a. We wish you nothing but the best. We are waiting for that EP. Use as well Mr. Alex. Just say your Instagram handle one more time. That camera. My Instagram handle is LexoGuitarista. M-E-S-O-X-O. Sir, thank you Mr. Andalia. F-M-E-I-G-Andalia underscore longreh. Run underscore... Andalia underscore long 98, official. Twitter. Andalia longreh. YouTube. Andalia longreh. Facebook. Andalia longreh. Thank you so much guys for coming through. If you thought they were done, they are not. And they are brother friends. So good music in the leapa on the e-sci. Remember the question of the day is, what's the funniest bumper sticker you've ever seen? Onama tattoo, onama those mudflags are lori, onaza? Zuko mingi sana, omana gani? Kamu kuna raka mingi jejana. Kamu kuna raka mingi jejana, mi mingi. Ten boobs, nini ni like, zemo wa mingi sana. And so this is the guy I was talking about. He's my producer. He's also an artist. He wraps. Safika Bisa, thank you so much for coming through to the Eastside. This is what I want you to do. I hear a vocalist and a good one at that. Oniku tu slowly, he's a rapper. That's another bumper sticker. I can't call it slang. Kamu raka mingi jejana. But here's the thing, there's a song I want you guys to perform. Kuna bari dileo, opatika zoto kidogo. And thank you so much for coming through again.