Jaune Toujours

Forget about formats, put away categories and open your ears, because the music of Jaune Toujours can hardly be caught in one simple phrase or oneliner. Unless we'd invent one ourselves... Here's a cult band that evolved with its explosive, urban mix of music genres, rhythms, languages and cultures to a high quality brand, appreciated equally by the international press and audiences. Add to that a typically Belgian pinch of self-derision and understatement and the result is a band with the energy of a rock band (without guitars!), the improvizing abilities of a jazz combo, the open-minded approach of a world music group and the charm of a street band.

Well Rooted in their home town Brussels their unique identity is yet enforced by their poetic and socially committed lyrics, that celebrate the cultural melting pot of our modern day world. And it is the kind of music you can dance to till you drop at a gig, but also enjoy as you listen more attentively at home.

Jaune Toujours' sound is so natural that it's deceptive and at first might give the casual listener the impression of simplicity, when it's really their musicianship and the particular humanist angle from which they approach cross cultural composing, that makes their music sound as if it's been around forever. Respect for content rather than form, for collaboration, rather than preservation and for long term development, has enabled them to create a musical universe that is rich, diverse, honest, modern and unique.

New studio album spring 2009! The band is working on a new New studio album spring 2009. The band is working on a new album, to be releases in the spring of 09, two years after therelease of "cluB". Up till now, te live CD cluB probably demonstrates best what Jaune Toujours stands for and how they translate that onto a stage.

CluB features tracks from the former albums O, BRUSK, Camping del Mundo and Barricade and was recorded at a memorable evening at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels.  New studio album spring 2009 ! The band is working on a new album, to be releases in the spring of 09, two years after therelease of "cluB". Up till now, te live CD cluB probably demonstrates best what Jaune Toujours stands for and how they translate that onto a stage. CluB features tracks from the former albums O, BRUSK, Camping del Mundo and Barricade and was recorded at a memorable evening at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels.

Jaune Toujours - links:

The band's myspace : www.myspace.com/jaunetoujours

The band's site @ Choux de Bruxelles : www.choux.net - With Mec Yek live @ Funkhaus

The bands site @ DUCOS Productions www.ducos.com

Europa : http://www.funkhauseuropa.de/sendungen/die_matinee/2008/jaune_toujours.phtml

Some Jaune Toujours Press quotes:

The Guardian (****): For anyone who has ever made jokes about Belgium, here's an album to make you rethink. Surely destined to become one of the great European party bands /

The Independent on Sunday (****): This Belgium band's brass and accordion-led music seems born of the beer-steeped venue and nourished by the enthusiasm of a responsive audience. You'll love it /

James Attlee in Songlines (***): a high-octane combination with uplifting lyrics that celebrate life, music and the cultural diversity of their home city /

The Oxford Times : no greater surprise than Jaune Toujours - Belgium's finest export since beer. A hot mix of ska, gypsy, jazz and rock that had audiences ont their feet demanding more and more /

Andrew Cronshaw in fROOTS: not like a fusionist thing where now you hear this influence, now another; this is so natural that it feels like it's always been there... /

Andy Kershaw, BBC3: What attracts me in Jaune Toujours is that they combine a punk attitude with an international hunger to present different styles from all over the world on their plate /

Blue Rythm: Jaune Toujours liefern hier ein eklektisches Feuerwerk an Spielfreude und Ideen, von dem man sich nur mitreissen lassen kann /

Folker: eine Mischung aus Chanson und Mestizofolkim Stil vergleichbar mit der französichen Band Lo'Jo, wobei Jaune Toujours dank der Starken Bläsersektion kraftvoller sind /

Jazzcorner: Hochenergetisch, bestechend musikalisch, weltoffen und doch voller Gefühl /

Westzeit: "Wenn die Belgier im cluB spielen, brennt die Luft, denn ihr poppiges Ska-World-Jazz-Balkan-Gebräu ist höllisch scharf /

Jazzdimensions: Ihre Liveshows sind ein einziges Fest, extrem lebendig, ohne die musikalische Qualität dabei aus den Augen zu verlieren und weit entfernt von jedem Klischee /

Die Abend Zeitung: Falls Brüssel tatsächlich die verschlafene Eurokraten- Metropole ist, für die sie viele halten, dann verfügt sie mit Jaune Toujours aber auch über eines wirkungsvollsten Aufputschmittel