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Out Of The Box Sessions during Covid19 quarantine:
“Ici BXL”, by Jaune Toujours, performed by Viggo Maris on trumpet and Piet Maris on accordion and vocals.
Listen to the original studio version from the album "Barricade" (2004) on Bandcamp!
And be sure to check out the music video we made back then on Youtube
Day 50 of the Covid19 quarantine:
“Quoi”, by Jaune Toujours, performed by Piet Maris
Allé hop fiesta! We often close Jaune Toujours concerts with 'Quoi' which is on the album Camping del Mundo (2002), the live album cluB (2006) and on the collector's Album 20sth (2016).
And as we are day 50 of the Balcony Sessions, and as hardly nobody in our street is clapping anymore (not for us, we don't mind, but it's about the medical and other care people, remember?) we thought: ok, we can close off this series with this song...
Time for something else, starting as of tomorrow, stay tuned!
Listen to the original studio version from the album "Camping del Mundo" (2002) on Bandcamp.
First mini-expo at Choux de Bruxelles - artist collective, in the headquarters vitrine: artwork of the Jaune Toujours album Europeana (2018) - photos by our drummer photographer Raballand Théophane.
Feel free to stop by and have a look (but mind: always keep your 1,5m physical distancing from each other, in order to stay safe and sound!)
More of Theo's work on : www.theophaneraballand.com
Day 49 of the Covid19 quarantine: 'Pretty Vacant' from the Sex Pistols. One of the songs Piet used to play at all possible open stages during his university years - still on guitar at the time; then the guitar got broke, stayed several years at the repairman; got replaced by an accordion and the rest is history... :)
Punk on accordion is NOT dead!
Nu we door de Corona-maatregelen allemaal thuis moeten blijven, zijn we nog eens ons archief gedoken.
We vonden beelden van onze concertreeks op Boterhammen in het Park in 2012, mét de dansers van Bal Moderne die het publiek elke dag een nieuwe choreografie aanleerden.
Dans lekker mee!
Dans Dance Danse is een lied uit het tweede 2-talige BOEK+CD IK EN DEN THEO / MOI ET LE THEO 2.0.
Je kan het BOEK+CD beluisteren en kopen op Bandcamp of in onze webshop
Bekijk de video hier beneden!
Op hetzelfde moment gaat ook een Franstalige versie van de clip in première
Woohoo! Jaune Toujours' "Ici BXL" made it to 21 in the Brusselse Honderd, the best 100 songs of BRUZZ Radio.
Thank you so much to all of you who voted!
You can listen to the complete top 100 on Spotify
Day 48 of the Covid19 quarantine:
“Accordéon”, by Jaune Toujours, performed by Piet Maris, from the very early Jaune Toujours days: It was on several demo-cassettes (early 90’s), on the debute-EP O (1998) en recently it has been compiled on the collector’s album 20sth (2016).
Written on a grey day, on the passing away of an old accordion player… For the record (pun intended): Piet asked and got the ok from no lesser than Serge Gainsbourg’s editor, to paraphrase his ‘Accordeon’ in his song: as a sort of bridge, he used a verse and chorus from the song he wrote for Juliette Gréco.
Listen to the original studio version from the EP 'O'
(1998) on Bandcamp
A small excerpt of yesterday's concert: La Paloma-Café.
What can a band possibly do during this Covid-19 lockdown period, when all concerts are canceled, to make themselves useful?
Play a concert where social distancing can be respected and where the audience is really in need of some diversion.
The elderly residents at Home Brugmann and Domaine du Neckersgat Uccle/Ukkel can not receive visitors just yet, so in order to cheer them up a little, their caretakers asked Jaune Toujours if they would consider playing a concert in their front yard.
The members of Jaune Toujours jumped at the opportunity to play live together again and thus everyone had as pleasant an afternoon as possible in these times of restrictions.
5 Mini-concerts at different spots around the buildings, to be sure that every resident could hear us. Theo on his self-made mobile drum kit - horns accoustically - bass, accordion and voice together on a compact (but efficient) speaker. With a lot of enthusiasm and warmth coming back from the inside, to us playing outside. Thanks OCMW/CPAS Uccle/Ukkel for making this possible!
After note: on their way back, police control:
- what was the reason of your transport?
- making music for people and staff in homes and care centers
- ah, very good, very good, have a nice day!
(all social and other distancing were respected - no musicians were harmed in the making of this music)
From the 'Lockdown Cheer Up Sessions' - Covid19 quarantine
Filmed by Cathérine Cossyns
Day 47 of the Covid19 quarantine:
“Tshaje Tshaje”, a Roma traditional, performed by Piet Maris
Mec Yek 'Tshaje Tshaje' from the album SuperDiverCity (2015). One of the first songs Piet learned from Laci, the Rom singer white whom the whole Gipsy adventure begun, mid '90s...
James-Joyce-stream-of-conciousness-wise: misty woods - smokey tiny block huts - the tiny house Piet lived in at the lakes near an abbey in Leuven - discovery of/concerts in Brasserie De L'union - endless travelling in an R4's, busses, planes - taking musicians, photographers, journalists, radio makers on a stroll - stubborn policeman at the checkpoints - passport problems - la chaconne (Bach) full force on a blaster while travelling - dancing in the snow at midnight at minus 20 - discotek in a small Roma living room - discovery of/concerts in Bazaar Brussels - passing midnight at new year's eve with a bunch of Roma musicians in a small van while driving passed the Brussels Royal Palace in Laeken while fireworks burst out everywhere... But most important of all, the music, always taking the lead...
Listen to the original studio version from the album SuperDiverCity by Mec Yek on Bandcamp
Day 46 of the Covid19 quarantine:
“King of Bongo”, by Mano Negra and Manu Chao, performed by Piet Maris
Piet has some realy fond memories of this album and Manu Chao:
"'King of Bongo', a solo version... Youth heroes, you know the phenomenon? :) I remember the release of 'King of Bongo' the album by Mano Negra as it was yesterday... What a blast: Bring the Fire! King of Bongo! Don't Want You No More! Le bruit du frigo! Letter To The Censors (concurrency for Ace of Spades!) El Jako! It's My Heart! Mad Man's Dead! Out of Time Man! Madam Oscar! Welcome In Occident! Furious Fiesta! The Fool! Paris la nuit! (when I think of it, I could cover quite some more from this album!)... Good Times... Happily revived afterwards with Manu Chao (he made a new version of King of Bongo), of whom I was so honoured to play as support act with Jaune Toujours in 2003 at Les Halles de Schaerbeek for the protest movement Nunca Mais (against the reign of the Spanish government then, who mismanaged the catastrophe with an oli tanker which polluted the Gallician coast) to go out with him afterwards in Brussels... "