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27 octobre 2008 1 27 /10 /octobre /2008 19:47

retour en Slovénie

Un retour en Slovénie, certes, mais dans le passé car aucun nouveau concert dans les Balkans n'est programmé pour l'instant (notre regard est actuellement plus tourné vers l'Afrique que vers l'Est comme cela ne vous aura pas échappé ... mais qui sait à l'avenir ?)

Plus précisément un retour en arrière de quelques mois. Nous sommes le 14 août 2007 à Ljubljana, troisième date de notre tournée 2007 dans les Balkans. Pour vous remémorer, allez donc (re)lire notre article du blog.

En surfant sur Internet, je suis tombé par hasard sur des photos de Matjaz Rust, jeune photographe Slovène dont les photos peuvent être consultées sur son site. Ces photos sont de bien meilleure qualité que celle que nous avions prises à l'époque. C'est donc une bonne occasion pour nous remémorer cette belle tournée :





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2 septembre 2007 7 02 /09 /septembre /2007 23:17

Dragan on TV

Our friend Dragan who helped us organising the Balkan tour is on ARTE today !

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A very interesting show about the life of a young guy from Mostar in Bosnia y Herzegovinia. We recognised a lot of place and people that we met during the tour.

If you miss the first diffusion, you can review it on monday 10 september 12:10 on Arte TV.
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29 août 2007 3 29 /08 /août /2007 20:32

Feedback

Feedback from Trbovlje in Slovenia : here and here

From Tuzla, BiH 
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28 août 2007 2 28 /08 /août /2007 20:37

Saturday 25th august - the road back

It is time for us to come back to Paris ... 

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WE MET ON THIS TOUR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We will try to feed this blog with news during the year so keep on looking here !


Our friend Bino from band Joke join us for the trip back ... we had a nice ice cream in Austria.
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And a nice capitalist meal in the night.

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Bye ... 

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this was YAPA during its Balkan Tour.
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27 août 2007 1 27 /08 /août /2007 14:22

Friday 24 august - 13th gig Murska Sobota

Last gig of the tour, back in Slovenia !

you can find a review of the show from Matjaz Jausovec here http://www.rockonnet.com/clanek.php?id=4&article=6574 (in Slovene)

Thanks Matjac for this review !

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It was a nice scene in the MIKK center ! thanks to everyone for the food and everything.

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our Simon "punky boss".

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25 août 2007 6 25 /08 /août /2007 12:44

Thursday 23th august - 12th gig Banja Luka

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23 août 2007 4 23 /08 /août /2007 18:32

Wednesday 22th august - 11th gig Tuzla

After a short night in the youth hostel we came back to the caffe to load the van. We had a coffe with the owner Zeljko who is a nice biker and blues lover.

Then we drove in the mountains to Tuzla were we arrived nearly on time.
 
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We met people from Tuzla Live association (Anes and Sale). There are young lovers of music who organise everything for musicians of Tuzla. Great job.

This time, We played in a real jazz club named the Goat. The owner is a piano teacher in Tuzla and a real jazzman. We had good time with him also. 

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There was a lot of people and the party was really good.

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23 août 2007 4 23 /08 /août /2007 18:31

Tuesday 21th august - 10th gig Sarajevo

The road from Mostar to Sarajevo follows a river between mountains, this is gorgeous.



We arrived one hour late ... as usual :p City is huge and astonishing.
We played in the Underground Cafe located in the old town which was crowded because of the Sarajevo Film festival.

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There we met Annabelle from the French Institute, she really helped us organizing the tour in Bosnia. She introduced us to Mahir, percusionist from Bosnia. We all had a good meal in a great restaurant.
The Underground cafe was a nice blues jazz place for us, it was full of people for our show. We played with Mahir and everybody enjoyed. Then at one o'clock we started a crazy jam session with Sylvain Mustache on drums, Xavier Didier and Mahir Vip on percussion and the guitars. Two hours of pure energy and improvisation.

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Then a long walk in Sarajevo by night with our new friends to go to the YMCA.
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23 août 2007 4 23 /08 /août /2007 18:28

Monday 20th august - 9th gig Mostar

The day began with a great vegetarian soup prepared by our host Srdjan. It was nice to start the day in his quiet place. Then he took us to waterfalls near Mostar. We had a great swimming time in natural lake and jacuzzi under the waterfalls. 

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When we arrived in OKC Abrasevic, the cultural center where we played, we have been welcomed by the team (Tina, Nani, Goxi, Maria and crew) and we almost felt at home.

We strated to play at 10pm under the sky and many people came. The atmosphere was perfect for YAPA's music and it was maybe one ogf our best gig. Unfortunatly the recording failed and Sylvain almost comitted seppuku. As punichement he shaved his beautiful moustache. 

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After the gig we enjoyed the time with the people form Abrasevic and with our friend Aki who came from Banja Luka to see us. Aki finished Christophe with his home made sliva.

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20 août 2007 1 20 /08 /août /2007 19:16

Sunday 19th august - day off

It was our first day without gig for 7 days. We were sad because one of the crew, Faustine, had to leave the adventure.

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Désolé Faustine, tu dois quitter l'aventure star-yapa :(

The day began with a walk in the touristic streets of Dubrovnik. 

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After, we came back to the sea where we were last night and this time, it was a really pleasant time to swim : water was warm transparent, we jumped from the rocks, we were alone and it was a really good moment.

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Then we had a really intersting talk with Marco about Dubrovnik, the organisation of the Orlando club and the youth of the city. 

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Before leaving to Mostar, we wanted to eat something and guess was we found ? Pizzas of course ;p

Border episode 2 : crossing of croatian to bosnian border.

First, we had to wait for the return of the croatian chief. Fortunately, this  border is perhaps the only border to have a bar so we had a little rest drinking beer.

But then after the moment the croatian chief came back and filed and stamped our papers for our music stuff, the bosnian chief had quit the border...

So they made us wait for a long time, intentionally speaking bosnian and tell us to go from one office to one another so as to finally ask for money to put in their pocket. They took fabrice and christophe in their office, the closed the door and asked for 500 euros. We laughed and proposed 30 euros. Then, they spoke to each other in Bosnian and had a big laugh. They proposed 100 euros... Finally we payed 50 euros and left the border after 1h30.

We arrived in the beautiful city of Mostar and had diner in front of the stone bridge.

We went then to the place of our friends in Ortijes where we were well welcomed by Srdjan and Tcina.

Then we had the longest night for a long time.

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