A very short update since a video one will be more appropriate in the situation!
We’re back to Brittany, right on time for a beautiful sold out concert in Brest, in the beautiful venue of La Carêne.
We came back with a rental car, and left our Camper van near Stuttgart, with yes, another mechanical issue. Yes, it has to do with the first failure.
No, it’s not because it wasn’t fixed properly, but because we couldn’t fix and check all of the potential issues due to where we were, and the equipment we had.
But we did all our concerts back in Germany, and we managed to get all our equipment and instruments back to Brittany. We have a few options with the fixing of the camper. We’ll see.
In the meantime, some pictures from yesterday! Because in the end, that’s why we do all of that!
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Please 🙏 leave us a small comment if you watch the video. 🌬️
It makes us happy, we get to know you, and it really helps to grow our channel and ultimately to get our music to a larger audience which could really make our lives easier! 🎵 ✨
We’re boarding to Germany this afternoon!
En français
Please 🙏 laissez nous un petit commentaire sous la vidéo, et abonnez-vous. 🌬️
Ça nous fait tellement plaisir, mais aussi, ça nous aide à vous connaître aussi. Et en bonus ça aide à la visibilité de la chaîne, ce qui aide aussi à faire connaître notre musique. Et peut-être un jour nous faciliter les choses quand on cherche des concerts. 🎵 ✨ 🎶
Embarquement sur le ferry pour l’Allemagne cette après-midi !
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Next video will be an experimental music video and should be up later on this evening.
Ha oui, on donne des nouvelles en vidéo *et* en français. 📽️ C’était pas le genre de nouvelles qu’on aurait voulu donner, mais on fera avec! 🚒 On teste une chaîne séparée pour les Vlogs en français, vous pouvez vous abonner ! 🙏
Les vidéos musicales restent pour le moment sur la chaîne principale. ⛓️💥 Et on vous prépare quelque chose pour ce soir.
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We are in sunny Serbia, under a beautiful blue sky and a bright spring sun.
It’s day 2 of our small tour, yesterday we played in Subotica, very close to the Hungarian border.
The blue 🔵 dot is us! Driving to the next concert!
Unexpected, inspiring, fulfilling, vibrant.
These are a few words to describe the evening. We were performing because of the kind invitation of the Siberian folk band Vedan Kolod.
A lovely venue dedicated to art and music, a small audience with an open mind and heart, it was easy and so natural to share our world.
A world in which we look in our culture for what can create connections between people, regardless of their origins, language or culture.
Our music and concerts are a gate towards others. It’s what inspires us, and keeps us creating.
We’re not always very good at filming our tours, and travels, but this time we are filming a little bit more of this journey.
We’ve taken for granted a free world, in which travels are easy, but we can’t predict the future.
It makes every opportunity to enjoy the freedom to connect even more meaningful and precious. And worth sharing.
Last but not least, we’ll slowly be moving away from social media, and we’re experiencing how we can use more our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@astrakanproject) as well as this website and our newsletter.
If you have any ideas and/or suggestions, feel free to use the comment section. What we loved about social media was precisely the idea of social interactions and connections.
But since it got a bit lost along the way, we’ll do what we’re the best at: use our creativity to recreate that connection in another more fulfilling way.
A galon,
Simone + Yann behind the wheel 😉
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Being adventurous and always aiming for more than you are supposed to be able to reach, is a way of life. 🌲 🛣️
Small bits from our road trip in Sweden.
Not finding excuses about what one “could” do if (fill in the blanks).
Without waiting, there’s plenty you can do with what you have already, and you’ll find even more ways to do it on the way.
We recorded our first album on a computer that wasn’t powerful enough. So our first album is recorded on 16b instead of the standard 24 that was the norm already.
I filmed my first video on a webcam, and edited it with a free software. My second video had plenty of pictures included because I didn’t have enough footage, and no room to store that hypothetical footage.
We own an old timer Ford Transit from the 90’s, and we still converted it to be somewhat off grid for a few days, and also access some off-road side.
We did not wait to have a better computer. We did not wait to have a camera. We did not wait to get a 4/4 expedition truck.
We just do with what we have, and solve the problems as we go.
What can you do now? What do you have you could use without waiting and go after your dreams?
We have a full playlist of daily sequences from our artistic road trip in Scandinavia, check out the description area for thoughts about creativity, art, travel and Swedish culture.
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