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Gompa

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About Me

Come visist the official site: www.soundisempty.com
BUY GOMPA'S ALBUM HERE (if you want): www.cdbaby.com/cd/gompa
GOMPA (Tib.: meditation room/hut)
Gompa was formed by the two lead vocalists, Jake Daniel (Scarborough, England)and Maik Pehrsson (Zurich,Switzerland) in London 2001.
For all you die-hard fans: GOMPA IS BACK! It has been a while, but Gompa are now back in the EU after a long and draining tour in the Himalayas. Jake, Maik and Dan are now poised to begin work on the upcoming album. One or two songs will be released right here within the next month, keep an eye open. As soon as recording has been completed, the band will do some warm-up gigs in their incredibly polite and tired base-town of Stockholm later this fall.
COME SEE GOMPA'S FIRST GIG IN 6 MONTHS!! Stockholm on the 15th of November: Harry B. James; Göteborg sometime thereafter (date to be announced): Hard Rock Cafe and Sticky Fingers.
Check out Gompa on all these other sites:
www.trig.com/gompa, www.last.fm, www.garageband.com, www.www.bandsuk.net, www.allears.se, www.jamma.se, www.songbox.se, www.zungoz.com, www.cdbaby.net- Pha! The list is endless!
Remember: When you clap your hands, the sound comes not from the left hand, not the right, nor the air in between. Come join the debate at www.soundisempty.com !!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/15/2007
Band Website: soundisempty.com
Band Members: Jake Daniel: Lead Vocals, Drums
Mike Pehrsson: Lead Vocals, Guitars
Per Rinaldo: Bass Guitar
Daniel Hakansson: Guitar
The Shabd Singers: Backing Vocals
Influences: The Beatles, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Korn, The Police, Muse, Slipknot, The Beach Boys, Jellyfish, Queens of the Stoneage, Jeff Buckley, Faith No More, System of a Down, Weezer, Meshuggah, Metallica, George Harrison, Deftones, Mr. Bungle, Tracy Bonham, Ours.
Sounds Like: Nirvana live meets Blur in the studio; The Beatles with 5 additional members from Slipknot; System of a Down with Brian Wilson as co-writer; Soungarden cloned with Weezer, twisted with Muse and drowned in Absinthe; Carole King eaten out by Jaws; The Texas Chainsaw family move to EastEnders and kill everyone whilst singing Zip-a-dee-do-da; Brutality on one side, harmony on the other- the Middle Way. Heavy, energetic Buddhist-punk pop. Krishnamurti joins a rock band.
Record Label: Gompa Music & Co.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Gompa goes on retreat

As the hardcore audience of Gompa will have noticed, not much activity has been coming from the band in the last three months. This is because the leading members Maik and Jake have been on several me...
Posted by Gompa on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:16:00 PST

Regret & guilt

Dear Friends!Regret is good, regrets are necessary. There are many people who boldly declare, in huge letters, "I never have regrets" and stuff like that. First of all that is not true, it would be ea...
Posted by Gompa on Fri, 18 May 2007 01:47:00 PST

Exclusive interview with Maik from Gompa!

Exclusive interview with Maik from Gompa, from StoneRock magazine. By Johan ÅkessonJ.: So, you are the guitarist and lead singer in Gompa?M.: Yes and no; I am one of the guitarists and one of the lead...
Posted by Gompa on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:38:00 PST

A Transcendental Discussion

Haribol to all of you transmigrating mental continuums!To be aware is to know God, or the Universe, with a complete lack of thought. This is what one may call 'Krishnaconsciousness', to borrow an Indi...
Posted by Gompa on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:50:00 PST

Review on Gompa

Hello! Another review describing our grace and greatness! This one, based on the last gig.Reviewed by: Kaj Roth  http://www.melodic.net/reviewsOne.asp?revnr=5331 If the Swedish grammy awards were anyt...
Posted by Gompa on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:22:00 PST