Toute l'actualité de Yapa, trio de guitares acoustiques et percussions - Photos et récits de concerts. Dernier album Pariwaga sur le label Chapa Blues sous licence Naïve avec en guests Patrice, Salif Diarra, Victor Démé, etc ...
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Voilà en détail le plan de notre tournée (cliquer sur les photos pour les agrandir). Admirez le travail de Simon qui a réussi la prouesse de planifier une tournée en boucle et non en étoile pour réduire tant que possible le passage des frontières et le...
Feedback from Trbovlje in Slovenia : here and here From Tuzla, BiH http://ngo.ba/vijesti/vijesti_iz_nvo_sektora/koncert_benda_yapa_iz_francuske_u_tuzli.html http://www.bosniaexpress.com/kultura/kultura_musicflash141.htm http://www.davorin.ba/muzika/novosti.asp?clanak=346...
Our friend Dragan who helped us organising the Balkan tour is on ARTE today ! 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...
Pause guitaristique pour Yapa ces derniers temps: En effet, chacun d'entre nous a pris de petites vacances à l'étranger. L'Egypte pour Christophe, Berlin pour Simon, le Népal pour Fabrice et l'Inde pour Xavier qui y est actuellement pour faire un concert...
Jeudi 17 et vendredi 18 avril 2008, nous étions en concert à La Soupe aux Choux à Bourges en plein festival off du printemps de Bourges. Deux concerts à l'ambiance intime et chaleureuse dans ce lieu à l'abri de la ferveur des rues de Bourges transformées...
L'impatience monte, le départ approche ! Plus précisément, à l'heure où j'écris ces quelques lignes Simon, Sylvain (le cinquième membre de Yapa caché derrière la console de mixage) et Colline (qui nous a aidé à mettre en place le projet Burkina 2008)...
La première journée démarre lentement mais se révèlera passionnante. Déjà plein de rencontres musicales. Des gens talentueux et adorables. À notre arrivée dans le quartier de la mosquée Hamdalay nous sommes invités à manger par Camille dans son studio...
Arrivée de Simon, Colline et Sylvain à Ouaga, les autres n’étant attendus que pour le 26. Atterrissage à 16h40 heure locale, après la canicule du midi, il ne fait que 40°C !! Le comité d’accueil est au complet : Michelle (chargée de nous piloter dans...
Vendredi 4 avril, nous avons eu la chance de jouer au festival Les sENS de l'art à l'ENS cachan pour un plateau commun avec le quatuor classique Voce. Près de 200 personnes pour un concert très agréable dans ce lieu qui nous a vu débuter. Laurent Prost,...
Yapa sera en concert samedi prochain au Swan Bar, Bar Jazz de Montparnasse tenu par un New Yorkais fou de jazz. à deux pas de la Closerie, près du Rer Port Royal, au 165 bld du Montparnasse, le concert débutera à 19h30. L'entrée est à 10 euros, ou un...
Yapa sera en concert jeudi 26 juin 2008 à 21h30 à l'Entrepot. 7 rue Francis de Pressensé, Paris 14è, Metro Pernety, entrée 7 euros. L'entrepôt est un lieu très agréable de culture et d'échange, situé à 2 pas de Montparnasse. La soirée sera belle ... venez...
Si vous aimez le morceaux le fils avec KPG, vous vous demandez peut être la signification des paroles, et bien les voici : Na na na Oh na na Boug kielmé wouyé tom sokati boin tara ta yambda Yamb yaab kambanga Ouagadougou Kambanga Rinso tom sokati bam...
Last day of the trip. We met Kirti in the morning in a music shop for buying some percussions for xavier. Then, we came to the studio where Vasu is waiting for us. We want to record all together, but for improving the sound, Vasu is in one room and we...
Today, our meeting point is the Taj Lands End, by the ocean. We are still looking for nice spots for taking band's pictures. Pictures by the ocean are not so "Indian" so we decided to leave the coast to go to a railway station, by cab. Arrived in Matunga...
After a nice breakfast in town, we came in the begining of the afternoon in the house of a female singer named Vasumati, that Camille and Simon had met in the begining of the tour. Vasu sings a very traditionnal kind of indian music and the mix with our...
After the photo shooting, today is the video shooting. To have some material for a video clip, we took 3 rickshaws, with their drivers, and made a small trip in the streets of Mumbai. Our craziest driver : It will take some time to unrush all the videos,...
In the beginning of the day we went to the home of Kirti Sagathia, a singer that Camille and Simon had already met during their first days in Mumbai, in the beginning of the tour. The meeting point is a mall, as usual for us in Mumbai because of the complexity...
First day in Mumbai. A sunday. A day off for us. Off, not exactly, because we have decided to take pictures of the band, for the press or for our next cd. Some examples .... In a small street : In a phone shop : Simon, playing with a kite Its fun to stay...
Yesterday, after the concert, we went to sleep at 2 a.m. Today, we have to wake up at 5 a.m. to get the plane to Kolkata where we play tonight. 3 hours of sleep, a whole day in the plane across India via Dehli, and a concert tonight ... The longest day...
The day began by a guided visit of the old Ahmedabad thanks to Chinten. With Bhopal, Ahmedabad will be our only chance to visit a little bit India like tourists ... I was amazed by the texture of the walls, their wonderful colors and the calmness of those...
New flight from Pune to Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat, famous because the Indian independance movement of Gandhi began there The concert takes place in the Gujarat Sports Club, close to a very large stadium. We were welcomed by Philippe, the new director...
We began the day by recording some guitar in the hotel room, just before leaving for the place where we played that night, in the Alliance française While doing the soundcheck, we drank an very good Indian Chai Soundcheck by Christophe and Camille And...
Friday morning, 3 hours of car to Pondicherry. Half an hour after we left the hotel, we made a stop to buy a rope to put the luggage of the roof of the car. The driver made a stop just below a speaker that shout super heavy loud music. A hard time for...
Early in the morning we take a taxi to the radio Chennai Live with Tara. We met there Maryam Thomas who will interview us. A very cool interview with questions that nobody had ever asked to us : can you tell us a secret that nobody knows ? Which advice...
Inn the Trivandrum airport, the flight to Chennai is two hours late. We are not lucky because this airport is the smallest and not the most confortable of the Airports we have visited. A long wait on the floor : Then, we finally took off with a view on...
