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Out Of The Box Sessions during Covid19 quarantine: “Ici BXL”, by Jaune Toujours, performed by Viggo Maris on trumpet and Piet Maris on accordion and vocals. Listen to the original studio version from the album "Barricade" (2004) on Bandcamp! And be sure to check out the music video we made back then on Youtube

Day 50 of the Covid19 quarantine: “Quoi”, by Jaune Toujours, performed by Piet Maris Allé hop fiesta! We often close Jaune Toujours concerts with 'Quoi' which is on the album Camping del Mundo (2002), the live album cluB (2006) and on the collector's Album 20sth (2016). And as we are day 50 of the Balcony Sessions, and as hardly nobody in our street is clapping anymore (not for us, we don't mind, but it's about the medical and other care people, remember?) we thought: ok, we can close off this series with this song... Time for something else, starting as of tomorrow, stay tuned! Listen to the original studio version from the album "Camping del Mundo" (2002) on Bandcamp.

Woohoo! Jaune Toujours' "Ici BXL" made it to 21 in the Brusselse Honderd, the best 100 songs of BRUZZ Radio. Thank you so much to all of you who voted! You can listen to the complete top 100 on Spotify

Day 49 of the Covid19 quarantine: 'Pretty Vacant' from the Sex Pistols. One of the songs Piet used to play at all possible open stages during his university years - still on guitar at the time; then the guitar got broke, stayed several years at the repairman; got replaced by an accordion and the rest is history... :) Punk on accordion is NOT dead!

A small excerpt of yesterday's concert: La Paloma-Café. What can a band possibly do during this Covid-19 lockdown period, when all concerts are canceled, to make themselves useful? Play a concert where social distancing can be respected and where the audience is really in need of some diversion. The elderly residents at Home Brugmann and Domaine du Neckersgat Uccle/Ukkel can not receive visitors just yet, so in order to cheer them up a little, their caretakers asked Jaune Toujours if they would consider playing a concert in their front yard. The members of Jaune Toujours jumped at the opportunity to play live together again and thus everyone had as pleasant an afternoon as possible in these times of restrictions. 5 Mini-concerts at different spots around the buildings, to be sure that every resident could hear us. Theo on his self-made mobile drum kit - horns accoustically - bass, accordion and voice together on a compact (but efficient) speaker. With a lot of enthusiasm and warmth coming back from the inside, to us playing outside. Thanks OCMW/CPAS Uccle/Ukkel for making this possible! After note: on their way back, police control: - what was the reason of your transport? - making music for people and staff in homes and care centers - ah, very good, very good, have a nice day! (all social and other distancing were respected - no musicians were harmed in the making of this music) From the 'Lockdown Cheer Up Sessions' - Covid19 quarantine Filmed by Cathérine Cossyns

Day 48 of the Covid19 quarantine: “Accordéon”, by Jaune Toujours, performed by Piet Maris, from the very early Jaune Toujours days: It was on several demo-cassettes (early 90’s), on the debute-EP O (1998) en recently it has been compiled on the collector’s album 20sth (2016). Written on a grey day, on the passing away of an old accordion player… For the record (pun intended): Piet asked and got the ok from no lesser than Serge Gainsbourg’s editor, to paraphrase his ‘Accordeon’ in his song: as a sort of bridge, he used a verse and chorus from the song he wrote for Juliette Gréco. Listen to the original studio version from the EP 'O' (1998) on Bandcamp

Day 46 of the Covid19 quarantine: “King of Bongo”, by Mano Negra and Manu Chao, performed by Piet Maris Piet has some realy fond memories of this album and Manu Chao: "'King of Bongo', a solo version... Youth heroes, you know the phenomenon? :) I remember the release of 'King of Bongo' the album by Mano Negra as it was yesterday... What a blast: Bring the Fire! King of Bongo! Don't Want You No More! Le bruit du frigo! Letter To The Censors (concurrency for Ace of Spades!) El Jako! It's My Heart! Mad Man's Dead! Out of Time Man! Madam Oscar! Welcome In Occident! Furious Fiesta! The Fool! Paris la nuit! (when I think of it, I could cover quite some more from this album!)... Good Times... Happily revived afterwards with Manu Chao (he made a new version of King of Bongo), of whom I was so honoured to play as support act with Jaune Toujours in 2003 at Les Halles de Schaerbeek for the protest movement Nunca Mais (against the reign of the Spanish government then, who mismanaged the catastrophe with an oli tanker which polluted the Gallician coast) to go out with him afterwards in Brussels... "

Day 45 of the Covid19 quarantine: Jaune Toujours 'Voor Wat Het Is', from the album Brusk (2000). Long time, this one... Such a long time ago, that we can even remember Radio 1 playing it, in rotation! :) The lyrics were inspired on a friend of Piet, a guitar player from a Belgian band, who were really making it at the time he wrote the song, but whom he visited in his last days, before he lost his battle against cancer... Musically Piet was inspired by some of his musical heroes back then, Lo'Jo Triban & Les Négresses Vertes... Long time...❤️ Listen to the original studio version from the album BRUSK (2000) on Bandcamp

Day 43 of the Covid19 quarantine: “Question Réponse”, by Jaune Toujours from the album EUROPEANA (2018), performed by Piet Maris Listen to the original studio version from the album Europeana on Bandcamp "Si on se saluait comme les motards, peut-être ça aiderait les grognards / Et si on reparait nos rêves cassés, on pourrait continuer à les rêver / Et si on vivait sans papiers, on n’aurait pas besoin de les montrer”

Day 42 of the Covid19 quarantine: Jaune Toujours ‘C’est parti’ (à la rencontre des gens perdus) from the album ROUTES (2013). The original recording has a nice trombone solo on it, played by Martial from the Gangbé Brass Band from Benin. This is socially committed feelgood New Orleans. Jaune Toujours used the song to support “Time To Go” one of the actions by Vrede vzw to get nuclear weapons (imposed by the Nato) out of Belgium and we made a clip out of it to show the world what really happened at the Belgian national anti austerity manifestation of november ’14 (hundreds of thousands of protesters, that was what mattered instead of those handful of provocateurs who made it to the world news) C’est Parti, the clip on Youtube Time to Go on Youtube Listen to the original studio version from the album Routes on Bandcamp