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The
band:
(Fabrice Bourguignat, Simon Chenet, Christophe Combet, Xavier
Hamon)
Yapa is a genuinely independent band, a group of four friends
(three
guitarists and a percussionist) who have been going to the
same gigs and the
same bars since they were at school together (in the Paris
suburbs). At a time
when hits and ringtones sound as if they ve rolled off some
production line,
Yapa tries to preserve a hands-on approach to making music.
In the last eight
years, the band have brought out two self-produced instrumental
albums
(3,000 copies of each), reinvesting the fees from gigs to
make first Chroniques
d Endoo and then Can I Talk To You? , a live recording of
a tour in the east
through the Balkans. They regularly set the stage of some
of the best clubs in
Paris (L Entrepôt, Le Sunset, L Etage, La Java, Le Baiser
Salé) and have
gained an underground reputation as well as a small band of
loyal fans.
Yapa has always written songs that take the listener off on
a journey, and these
musical postcards from Burkina Faso tell the story of their
greatest adventure to
date.
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