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who's who and who's doing what?Jaune Toujours
- country:Belgium
- style(s):Rock Roots
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Like Brussels, Jaune Toujours is an explosive mix of cultures, languages and styles of music: rock, chanson, ska, gypsy, balkan or brassband, anything goes. The band has an excellent live reputation in Belgium and abroad. Jaune Toujours play with their guts and aim at the audience's feet. Moreover, their intelligent and poetic lyrics translate a sincere social commitment.
In June of 2003, Jaune Toujours performed as supporting act to Manu Chao in Brussels and were sent to Norway to represent Belgium at the EBU festival in Førde. Last Summer, they played a lot of festivals in Belgium and also abroad: in Bremen at the Breminale (for Radio Bremen and Funkhaus Europa) and in London, during a short tour witch caught the attention of the English press (fROOTS, Time-Out, The Guide-The Guardian,...).
The new album Barricade reflects the band¹s new sound: catchy songs carried by the grooves of the accordion, drums and upright bass, strengthened by the crème de la crème of the Belgian horn blowers. This results in a lot of musical variation: from the accordion sounds of the Marolles (the musette quarter of Brussels) over brassband to influences from deep-ska and dub....
Piet Maris: lead vocal and accordion - founded Jaune Toujours and named the band after an accute attack of hepatites. He writes all lyrics and a big part of the music. In a distant past, Piet organised the project "Rakusatar!", a blend of Slovakian gipsy singers with Belgian musicians. He now continues to perform this repertoire with the band Mec Yek. Piet recently teamed up with Laïla Amezian to form the band Arabanda. In this project he aims to explore the arabo-andalusian repertoire in a fresh and new aproach. Piet also leads the band of accordians in La Nouvelle Harmonie Bruxelloise d'Accordéons.
Théophane Raballand: drums and percussion - plays percussion at the Brussels contemporary dance school PARTS. Théo also proves to be a talented photographer, and in that capacity he created the cover and the photographs for Barricade, as he did for the former albums Brusk and Camping del Mundo.
Mathieu Verkaeren: upright bass plays a lot in the Brussels jazz scene, but also in neighbouring genres, as in the Django Reinhardt inspired Christophe Astolfi quartet. Mathieu is also bass player in Mec Yek and Arabanda.
Mattias Laga: sax soprano, clarinet and bass clarinet - is an active member of the music scene in Ghent. He plays in jazz, folk and world music projects like Oblomow and Banda Azufaifo. Mattias is also a member of Mec Yek and Arabanda.
Bart Maris: trumpet, bugle and tuba - is Belgium's most famous jazz trumpet player. Next to Jaune Toujours, he plays in Flat Earth Society, Briskey, Moker and occasionally with dEUS and Zita Swoon. He won the Zamu-award for "best musician" in 2000 and was nominated for the third time this year. Bart is also a member of Arabanda.
Yves Fernandez-Solino: trumpet and bugel blows his horn like there'll be no tomorrow. He also plays with Ultrasonic, Hooverphonic, El Tattoo del Tigre and others.
Sam Versweyveld: trumpet, bugel, cornette and little trombone - is well-known in Belgian jazz and dance. He's part of the live band of Buscemi and participates in several jazz projects, like the Chris Joris project and the Chris Mentens quintet. And in the early days of Jaune Toujours, Sam used to play the electric bass in the band.
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