SuperDiverCity review in Rifraf
Lieve festivalorganisatoren, boeken die handel en rap een beetje!
Belgian music magazine RifRaf got their hands on a copy of SuperDiverCity and published a nice review (in Dutch).
SuperDiverCity review in Le Canard Folk
Aventure humaine autant que recherche musicale
Another SuperDiverCity review (in French), this time by Le Canard Folk!
Interview with Piet Maris in De Standaard (Belgian national newspaper)
Te veel mensen verstoppen zich in de grijze massa
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).
Interview with Piet Maris in De Standaard
Ik vind dat er altijd een boodschap moet zitten in wat je doet. Dat komt doordat ik geloof dat ik een verschil kan maken.
Recently, Jaune Toujours frontman Piet Maris was interviewed about his roots, youth and more by De Standaard (Belgian newspaper).
Mec Yek interview in Metro
Piet Maris was interviewed by Metro (Belgian paper), talking about his biggest influences, first album he bought and his favorite concerts.
Super Diver City: **** review in De Standaard
Katia en Milka Pohlodkova zijn moderne vertolksters die ver voorbij hun traditie durven te gaan
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.
New Mec Yek album βSuper Diver Cityβ out now!
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.
Mec Yek interview in Brussel Deze Week
Samenwerken met mensen met verschillende achtergronden om iets nieuws te creΓ«ren: dat is voor ons de meerwaarde
Brussel Deze Week (now Bruzz) interviewed Mec Yek about their newest album SuperDiverCity and their views on the multicultural society.
Throwback Choux de Bxl 25: Recording New Album Mec Yek
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 ThΓ©ophane 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 DjuriΔ & 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! -
Throwback Choux de Bxl 25: Mec Yek in 2002
Building up to our Choux-Fest [04042020] | VK on April 4th (get your tickets!), we'll be sharing from our vast archive of experiences in the weeks to come. Today a series of pictures of Mec Yek, taken by Sarah Baur in 2002. As you can see, in the early formation Katarina Pohlodkova was not yet joined by her sister Milka Pohlodkova on leading vocals, but by her friend Luba Macova, who decided after a while that a singing career was not her thing. Luckily Milka was able and happy to join the band and is still one of two front women on this day. Other musicians in the picture are Piet Maris, Mathieu Verkaeren and Mattias Laga in a younger version. Come listen to Mec Yek at Choux-Fest!