Rupa and The Fishes- Les Abeilles

Rupa

Rupa's vision of blending a mix of languages strives to forge a deeper connection, reaching beyond the boundaries of race and geography. Their music is often described as multifaceted, ever-changing, and redefining.

The group’s name derives from an old French saying, “les poissons d’avril”, roughly equivalent to the English term “April Fools”. It is an April Fools tradition in France for people to stick paper fishes on the backs of the unsuspecting. While the origin of the custom is questionable, Rupa remarks “one of the stories is that when a French king changed to the Roman calendar from the pagan calendar that was in wide use at the time, some people . . . still wanted to celebrate the New Year in April. So these are the people who would give the fishes, the April fish, to celebrate the beginning of the New Year. During the Bush Administration, we were feeling like April fishes—people who don’t believe the reality that’s handed to them by some higher order, but instead insist on the reality they perceive in front of them. It’s a political and social commentary.”

My mind 

has forged its path

along the equator

Among its many souls

The places of the visited

Dreamer, carve the bark

of the desired path.

His occupation not lost

Wandering to always spiritually encounter

Me, on it’s endless shoreless path

Shells, wash up, like Rupa’s Melodies

Find herself stuck, in the right melodies

of her delicate fingernails

painting the picture of dreams

for the wandering dreamer

to awaken. whole. in the soul. 

In full sight, of all it’s desired paths

Reclaiming the lost mistress

With the heavy guitar

And a memory full of headed past lives

Shaping the coloured chords

Full of rainbow fuels geometric visions

Beyond and inside, her dedicated soul.