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Belgian music magazine RifRaf got their hands on a copy of SuperDiverCity and published a nice review (in Dutch).
Recently, Mec Yek and Jaune Toujours frontman Piet Maris was interviewed about his roots, youth and more by De Standaard.
You can read the interview (in Dutch) on their website (behind a paywall).
Recently, Jaune Toujours frontman Piet Maris was interviewed about his roots, youth and more by De Standaard (Belgian newspaper).
Piet Maris was interviewed by Metro (Belgian paper), talking about his biggest influences, first album he bought and his favorite concerts.
De Standaard gave Super Diver City four stars today, as well as naming it album of the week!
You can read the full review on their website.
(Re)discover Jérome Bel’s declaration of love to the performing arts!
A colourful mix of dance lovers and professional dancers from diverse genres and cultures perform a veritable New Year’s gala.
But this gala radically questions the codes of the performing arts.
The gypsy incarnation that has developed from Jaune Toujours is called Mec Yek and Super Diver City is their latest recording.
Super Diver City contains some musical surprises: twelve tracks, nine particular arrangements of traditional Roma-songs, two songs written by singers Katia and Milka and one Amy Winehouse cover translated into Romanès. All nicely mixed together by Shazalakazoo, leading duo in Balkan Beats from Belgrade, Serbia. Also, against all expectations: Mec Yek is a gypsy band without violin.
It's available through Bandcamp or in our own webshop above.
Brussel Deze Week (now Bruzz) interviewed Mec Yek about their newest album SuperDiverCity and their views on the multicultural society.
Throwback time: 10 years ago!
March 2015 Mec Yek started recording at Dada Studios with recording engineer Jules Fradet, Katarina Pohlodkova and Milka Pohlodkova on vocals, Piet Maris on accordion, Mathieu Verkaeren on upright bass, Raballand Théophane on drums and percussion, Mattias Laga on clarinets and sax soprano and Bart Maris on trumpet, flugelhorn and tuba.
The recordings were sent to Belgrade to be mixed and produced by ShazaLaKazoo's Milan Djurić & Uros Petkovic.
Out came the new album SuperDiverCity! - still available:
https://mecyek.bandcamp.com/album/super-diver-city
https://open.spotify.com/album/0DjXDjlQghVo5tzIDngwNW
- As we celebrate 25 years of Choux de Bruxelles - artist collective, we're sharing gems from our archives throughout the year. Stay tuned! -
National manifestation November 6, 2014 in Brussels: what you didn’t get to see through the mainstream media.