Tok Tok Tok already can look back on ten years of career, seven studio and two live albums, two German Jazz Awards and an award of the French copyright collection society SACEM. Their music is regularly played on German, French, and Spanish radio stations, and their albums always enter the top ten of the German jazz charts. Besides, they have the fame of being an excellent live band celebrated by fans in Madrid, Paris, Berlin, or Prague. On the European acoustic soul and jazz scene Tok Tok Tok is a household name.

After signing a record deal with Univeral Music, the Freiburg-based band is heading into a new direction. The label that released albums by Diana Krall, Jamie Cullum, and Beady Belle will present Tok Tok Tok’s new studio album “She And He”. “We are concious that the first record you do for a new record company is extremely important, if not decisive. For me as a producer, this was enormously motivating,” says Morten Klein, the male half of Tok Tok Tok’s protagonists. “However, it was not unintentional that, during all these years, we recorded for an independent label,” he continues. “We wanted to avoid being ‘build up’ from the start.” “When we began performing we worked in a chamber music setting,” adds singer and lyricist Tokunbo Akinro. “We met at the conservatory and started as a trio.” More...